Year 67 (LXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events

[edit] By place

[edit] Roman Empire

• Vindex revolts, first in a series of revolts that lead to Nero's downfall.
• Province of Iudaea (Judea). Vespasian arrives to put down the Jewish Revolt.
• Battle of Jotapata and massacre of its 40,000 Jewish inhabitants. The historian Josephus, leader of the rebels in Galilee, is captured by the Romans led by Vespasian.
• Fall of the Jewish fortress of Gamla in the Golan to the Romans and massacre of its inhabitants.
• Nero travels to Greece, where he participates in the Olympic Games and other festivals.
• Sardinia becomes a Roman province.
• Nero, jealous of the success of Corbulo in Armenia, orders that he be put to death. Corbulo literally "falls on his sword".

[edit] Ongoing events

• Roman Empire. The Jewish Revolt in Judea (66–70).

[edit] By topic

[edit] Religion

• Martyrdom of apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul.
• Pope Linus succeeds Saint Peter as the second pope (in Catholic reckoning).

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• June 29—Saint Peter, apostle (traditional) (crucified upside down upon request)
• Cestius Gallus, defeated during the Jewish Revolt
• Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, Roman general, suicide ordered by Nero
• Paul of Tarsus, apostle (executed), (later date)