AD 90

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• The Romans build a small garrison in the suburbs of modern Regensburg.
• Pliny the Younger's appointment as urban quaestor ends.
• Emperor Domitian and Nerva are Roman Consuls.
• Cologne becomes the capital of Germania Inferior.
• A humiliating peace is bought by Domitian from King Decebalus of Dacia.

  Asia

• Continuing his conquest of the Tarim basin, Chinese General Ban Chao defeats the Kushan led by Kanishka.

  By topic

Art

• Young Flavian Woman is made. It is now kept at Musei Capitolini, Rome.

  Literature

• The Roman epic poet Gaius Valerius Flaccus dies, having written works that include the Argonautica, describing the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts to retrieve the Golden Fleece from the mythical land of Colchis.

  Religion

• Drafting of The Gospel of John.

Births

• Ishmael ben Elishha, Jewish rabbi
• Quintus Tuneius Rufus, Roman politician

  Deaths

• Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Roman poet
• Pedanius Dioscorides, Greek physician
• Tiberius Julius Rhescuporis I, Roman client king