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Events

By Place

Roman Empire

*A Roman army of 90,000 men commanded by Germanicus gains a victory at Idistaviso, defeating the German war chief Arminius and capturing his wife Thusnelda, and recovering the lost eagles of Varus' legions.
* Noricans having joined with the Pannonians in invading Histria, are defeated by Publius Silius, proconsul of Illyricum.

By Topic

Arts and Sciences

*Ovid's "Epistulae ex Ponto" appears.

Births

*September 16 - Drusilla, daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder (d. 38).
*Agrippina the Younger, Roman Empress.

Deaths

*Scribonia, Second wife of Caesar Augustus and mother of Julia the Elder

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