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Centuries: 1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century

Decades: 0s BC 0s 10s 20s 30s - 40s - 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s

Years: 35 36 37 38 39 - 40 - 41 42 43 44 45

Events

Christianity comes to Egypt as a church is founded in Alexandria. Mark the Evangelist found the Coptic Orthodox Church as the first pope.

Caligula embarks on a campaign to conquer Britain.

German tribe Quadi began settling in today Moravia and Slovakia.

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