Jewish leaders at Jerusalem are divided through a power struggle, and a brutal civil war erupts. The Zealots and the Sicarii execute anyone who tries to leave the city.
Siege of Yodfat: Its 40,000 Jewish inhabitants are massacred. The historian Josephus, leader of the rebels in Galilee, is captured by the Romans. Vespasian is wounded in the foot by an arrow fired from the city wall.
The Jewish fortress of Gamla in the Golan falls to the Romans, and its inhabitants are massacred.
Nero travels to Greece, where he participates in the Olympic Games and other festivals.
Nero, jealous of the success of Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo in Armenia, orders that he be put to death. Corbulo literally "falls on his sword".
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Apostles Peter and Paul are martyred in Rome (possible date).