60

This page is about the year 60. For the actual number, see sixty.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC – 1st century – 2nd century
Decades:	30s  40s  50s  – 60s –  70s  80s  90s
Years:	57 58 59 – 60 – 61 62 63

60 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	60 LX
Ab urbe condita	813
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4810
Bahá'í calendar	-1784–-1783
Bengali calendar	-533
Berber calendar	1010
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	604
Burmese calendar	-578
Byzantine calendar	5568–5569
Chinese calendar	己未年月日 (2696/2756--Template:Chinese calendar/day/45/55) — to — 庚申年月日 (2697/2757--Template:Chinese calendar/day/45/56)
Coptic calendar	-224–-223
Ethiopian calendar	52–53
Hebrew calendar	3820–3821
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	116–117
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3161–3162
Holocene calendar	10060
Iranian calendar	562 BP – 561 BP
Islamic calendar	579 BH – 578 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2393
Minguo calendar	1852 before ROC 民前1852年
Thai solar calendar	603

60 is a year in the 1st century.

Events

Roman Empire

• Romans build the first London Bridge.
• Prasutagus, king of the Iceni, made a will. He left his kingdom to his two daughters and emperor Nero.
• The Roman army annexed East Anglia.
• Boudica, widow of Prasutagus, is flogged and then forced to witness the public rape of her daughters.
• Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, governor of Britannia, leads a campaign on the island of Mona (Anglesey).
• Boudica joins the British Celtic tribes in revolt, along with the Cornovii, Durotriges and Trinovantes.
• The rebels defeat Legio IX Hispana and destroyed the capital Camulodunum (modern Colchester).
• Boudica sacks Londinium (London) and Verulamium (St Albans). Thousands of civilians are killed.
• Nero has people explore the historical city Meroë (Sudan).
• The Rhoxolani are defeated on the Danube by the Romans.
• Vitellius is (possibly) proconsul of Africa.
• Herod Agrippa II rules the northeast of Judea.

By topic

Religion

• The First Epistle of Peter, if by Saint Peter, is probably written between this year and c. 64.
• Paul of Tarsus goes to Rome. He is shipwrecked at Malta. He stays for three months and converts Publius, the first Bishop of Malta.

Art and science

• Hero of Alexandria writes Metrica, Mechanics, and Pneumatics.
• 60–79 – House of the Vettii, Pompeii, is rebuilt.

Deaths

• Domitius Afer, Roman orator