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Roman Timeline of the First Century AD (1541 words) |
 | 14 AD Aelius Sejanus is appointed as Praetorian Prefect. |
 | 23 AD Birth of the Roman historian Pliny the Elder, in the town of Novum Comum, in Italy. |
 | 26 AD Pontius Pilate is appointed as the prefect of Judaea. |
| Roman Britain - Search View - MSN Encarta (4733 words) |
 | Governors of Britain in the 1st and 2nd centuries, and of northern Britain in the 3rd, were actively involved in campaigning; but it is important not to underestimate the governor's no less onerous task as an administrator and supreme justice within the province. |
 | From the early 3rd century, a line of forts was established along the south-eastern coast of Britain to serve as protection against attack from the sea. |
 | Although the walls ostensibly define the town's extent, they were in fact added only later, for the most part in the 3rd century, and do not fully define the built-up area of the agglomeration; there were often undeveloped areas within the walls and suburbs without. |