50

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC – 1st century – 2nd century
Decades:	20s  30s  40s  – 50s –  60s  70s  80s
Years:	47 48 49 – 50 – 51 52 53

50 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

50 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	50 L
Ab urbe condita	803
Assyrian calendar	4800
Bengali calendar	−543
Berber calendar	1000
Buddhist calendar	594
Burmese calendar	−588
Byzantine calendar	5558–5559
Chinese calendar	己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 2746 or 2686     — to — 庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 2747 or 2687
Coptic calendar	−234 – −233
Discordian calendar	1216
Ethiopian calendar	42–43
Hebrew calendar	3810–3811
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	106–107
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3151–3152
Holocene calendar	10050
Iranian calendar	572 BP – 571 BP
Islamic calendar	590 BH – 589 BH
Julian calendar	50 L
Korean calendar	2383
Minguo calendar	1862 before ROC 民前1862年
Seleucid era	361/362 AG
Thai solar calendar	592–593

The world in 50

Year 50 (L) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Vetus and Nerullinus (or, less frequently, year 803 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 50 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Cologne is raised to the status of a city.
• Romans learn the use of soap from the Gauls.
• Utrecht is founded, a Roman fortification (castellum) is constructed at the Rhine border in the present-day Netherlands.
• Claudius adopts Nero.
• In Judea a Roman soldier seized and burned a Torah-scroll. Procurator Cumanus had the culprit beheaded, calming down the Jews and delaying for two decades the outbreak of their revolt^[1]
• In Britain, governor Publius Ostorius Scapula begins his campaign against the recalcitrant Silures of south Wales, who are led by the former Catuvellaunian prince Caratacus. London (Londinium), Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum), Tripontium (near modern Rugby) and the fort of Manduessedum (near modern Atherstone) are founded (approximate date).
• Roman emperor Claudius appoints Agrippa II governor of Chalcis.
• Romans built a wooden bridge across the Thames in the London area.
• The Iazyges settle in the Hungarian plain to the east of the Tisza River.

Asia

• The Yuezhi tribes are united under the Kushan leader Kujula Kadphises, thus creating the Kushan Empire in Afghanistan and northern India. (approximate date)

America

San Bartolo pyramid is completed around this time.

By topic

Religion

• Christianity is introduced throughout Nubia by a high official of Queen Judith.
• The Epistle to the Romans is written (approximate date).
• The Apostles hold the Council of Jerusalem (approximate date).

Arts and sciences

• Hero of Alexandria invents a steam turbine (possible date).
• Pamphilus of Alexandria writes a poetic lexicon.
• Pedanius Dioscorides describes the medical applications of plants in De Materia Medica.
• Diogenes, the Greek explorer, discovers the African Great Lakes.
• The distinction between chronic maladies and acute illnesses is made by Thessalos.

Births

• Cai Lun, Chinese inventor of paper and the papermaking process (d. 121)

Deaths

• Abgarus of Edessa, king of Osroene
• Aulus Cornelius Celsus, author of De Medicina (approximate date) (b. c. 25 BC)
• Gamaliel the Elder, the Nasi of the Jewish people in Babylonia
• Phaedrus, Roman fabulist (b. c. 15 BC)
• Philo of Alexandria, Jewish philosopher (b. 20 BC) (approximate date)

References

1. Flavius Josephus, "Ant." xx. 5, § 4; "B. J." ii. 12, § 2.