It is believed that the Stanegate was probably built under the governorship of Agricola.

The name Grampians is believed to have first been applied to the mountain range in 1520 by the Scottish historian Hector Boece, an adaptation of the name Mons Graupius, recorded by the Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus as the site of the defeat of the native Caledonians by Gnaeus Julius Agricola circa 83 AD.

In 1546, Georg Agricola re-discovered that a white metal could be condensed and scraped off the walls of a furnace when zinc ores were smelted, but it is believed that it was usually thrown away as worthless.

It was concluded that the zinc of this tablet was collected from a furnace, where the metal is known to have aggregated, Strabo calling it pseudoarguros " mock silver " ( in 1546, Georg Agricola re-discovered that a white metal could be condensed and scraped off the walls of a furnace when zinc ores were smelted ), but it is believed that it was usually thrown away as worthless.

Agricola was a military tribune under Suetonius Paulinus, which almost certainly gave Tacitus an eyewitness source for Boudica's revolt.

The conquest of Britain continued under the command of Gnaeus Julius Agricola, who expanded the Roman Empire as far as Caledonia, or modern day Scotland.

One of the most detailed reports of military activity under the Flavian dynasty was written by Tacitus, whose biography of his father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola largely concerns the conquest of Britain between 77 and 84.

Although the Romans inflicted heavy losses on the enemy, two-thirds of the Caledonian army escaped and hid in the Scottish marshes and Highlands, ultimately preventing Agricola from bringing the entire British island under his control.

Bach in Leipzig, such as Wilhelm Friedmann Bach, Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach and Johann Friedrich Agricola, as well as those composers who performed under his direction in Leipzig ( Christoph Graupner, Johann David Heinichen and Johann Georg Pisendel ), composers of the Berlin lieder school, and finally, his numerous pupils, none of whom, however, became major composers.

Agricola was the first to teach the views which Luther was the first to stigmatize by the name Antinomian, maintaining that while non-Christians were still held to the Mosaic law, Christians were entirely free from it, being under the gospel alone, see also Law and Gospel.

* Gnaeus Julius Agricola, age 18-year old, is serving as a military tribune in Britain under Gaius Suetonius Paulinus and is attached to Legio II Augusta.

Gibbon proposed a period of moderation under Augustus and his successors and argued that generals bent on expansion ( e. g. Germanicus, Agricola and Corbulo ) were checked and recalled by the Emperors during their victories favouring consolidation ahead of further expansion.

Avitus had two sons, Agricola ( 440 – after 507, a vir inlustris ) and Ecdicius Avitus ( later patricius and magister militum under Emperor Julius Nepos ) and a daughter Papianilla ; she married Sidonius Apollinaris, whose letters and panegyrics remain an important source for Avitus ' life and times.

Two future governors served under him: Quintus Petillius Cerialis as legate of Legio IX Hispana, and Gnaeus Julius Agricola as a military tribune attached to II Augusta, but seconded to Suetonius's staff.

The Etherow valley was an important trans-Pennine route, and in AD78 the Romans under Agricola built the fort of Ardotalia ( later known as Melandra or Melandra Castle ) to defend it.

The 2nd century Roman poet Juvenal, who may have served in Britain under Agricola, wrote in Satires that " arms had been taken beyond the shores of Ireland ", and the coincidence of dates is striking.

The 16th-century historian Hector Boece claims in his Historia Gentis Scotorum that the Romans, under Agricola, fortified Stirling, and that Kenneth MacAlpin, traditionally the first King of Scotland, besieged a castle at Stirling during his takeover of the Pictish kingdom in the 9th century.

Browning later republished it in Dramatic Lyrics ( 1842 ) paired with " Johannes Agricola in Meditation " under the title " Madhouse Cells.

He was also the patron of Rudolph Agricola ( Rudolf de Boer ), who in his youth at Zwolle had studied under Thomas à Kempis ; and through this connection the Brethren of the Common Life, through Cusa and Agricola, influenced Erasmus and other adepts in the New Learning.

Substantial conquests were made in Britain under command of Gnaeus Julius Agricola between 77 and 83, while Domitian was unable to procure a decisive victory against King Decebalus in the war against the Dacians.

* Johann Friedrich Agricola arrives in Berlin to study musical composition under Johann Joachim Quantz.

At the turn of the Millennium, the Commando was deployed to Kosovo under KFOR as part of 3 Cdo Bde RM on Operation Agricola IV.

Dedication to the god Sol Invictus, by a vexillatio of the Legio VI Victrix | Legio VI Victrix under the command of Agricola.

The 2nd century Roman poet Juvenal, who may have served in Britain under Agricola, wrote that " arms had been taken beyond the shores of Ireland ", and the coincidence of dates is striking.

Agricola remained uncorrupted ; in disgrace under Domitian, he died without seeking the glory of an ostentatious martyrdom.

For Tacitus, Agricola served as an example of how, even under despotism, it was possible to behave correctly, avoiding the opposite extremes of servility and useless opposition.

In another example, believing the black rock of the Schlossberg at Stolpen to be the same as Pliny the Elder's basalt, Agricola applied this name to it, and thus originated a petrological term which has been permanently incorporated in the vocabulary of science.

The modern petrological term basalt describing a particular composition of lava-derived rock originates from its use by Georgius Agricola in 1556 in his famous work of mining and minerology De re metallica, libri XII.

Agricola applied " basalt " to the volcanic black rock of the Schlossberg ( local castle hill ) at Stolpen, believing it to be the same as Pliny the Elder's " very hard stone ".

16th century technical writers such as Biringuccio, Ercker and Agricola described a variety of cementation brass making techniques and came closer to understanding the true nature of the process noting that copper became heavier as it changed to brass and that it became more golden as additional calamine was added.

Agricola, around 1600, reports the use of borax as a flux in metallurgy.

According to Tacitus in his Annals, Boudica poisoned herself, though in the Agricola which was written almost twenty years prior he mentions nothing of suicide and attributes the end of the revolt to socordia (" indolence "); Dio says she fell sick and died and then was given a lavish burial ; though this may be a convenient way to remove her from the story.

Tacitus, the most important Roman historian of this period, took a particular interest in Britain as Gnaeus Julius Agricola, his father-in-law and the subject of his first book, served there three times.

Christoph Ludwig Agricola ( November 5, 1667 – August 8, 1719 ) was a German landscape painter.

* 1774 – Johann Friedrich Agricola, German composer and organist ( b. 1720 )

Significant wars were fought in Britain, where his general Agricola attempted to conquer Caledonia ( Scotland ), and in Dacia, where Domitian was unable to procure a decisive victory against king Decebalus.

Tacitus derided Domitian's victory against the Chatti as a " mock triumph ", and criticised his decision to retreat from Britain following the conquests of Agricola.

Agricola arrived c. 77 as governor of Roman Britain, immediately launching campaigns into Caledonia ( modern day Scotland ).

In 82 Agricola crossed an unidentified body of water and defeated peoples unknown to the Romans until then.

Turning his attention from Ireland, the following year Agricola raised a fleet and pushed beyond the Forth into Caledonia.

In the summer of 84, Agricola faced the armies of the Caledonians, led by Calgacus, at the Battle of Mons Graupius.

In 85, Agricola was recalled to Rome by Domitian, having served for more than six years as governor, longer than normal for consular legates during the Flavian era.

The relationship between Agricola and the Emperor is unclear: on the one hand, Agricola was awarded triumphal decorations and a statue, on the other, Agricola never again held a civil or military post in spite of his experience and renown.

Although Tacitus is usually considered to be the most reliable author of this era, his views on Domitian are complicated by the fact that his father-in-law, Gnaeus Julius Agricola, may have been a personal enemy of the Emperor.

In his biographical work Agricola, Tacitus maintains that Agricola was forced into retirement because his triumph over the Caledonians highlighted Domitian's own inadequacy as a military commander.

Several modern authors such as Dorey have argued the opposite: that Agricola was in fact a close friend of Domitian, and that Tacitus merely sought to distance his family from the fallen dynasty once Nerva was in power.

His views on Domitian survive through brief comments in its first five books, and the short but highly negative characterisation in Agricola in which he severely criticises Domitian's military endeavours.