According to Cassius Dio, a financial crisis emerged in AD 39.

In AD 39, relations between Caligula and the Roman Senate deteriorated.

Seneca was almost put to death by Caligula in AD 39 likely due to his associations with conspirators.

In consequence of the accusation of Claudia Pulchra, and of some offense which he had given to Caligula, he was accused by the emperor in the senate, but by concealing his own skill in speaking, and pretending to be overpowered by the eloquence of Caligula, he not only escaped the danger, but was made consul suffectus in 39 AD.

Antonia Major, 39 BC – before 25 AD, had 3 children

:::: a. Julia Drusilla, 39 AD – 41 AD, died young

Claudia Octavia, 39 AD or 40AD – 62 AD, died without issue

* 39 BC – Julia the Elder, the only child the Roman Emperor Augustus ( d. AD 14 )

The Fourth Doctor faced the Sontarans in Dragon's Claw ( DWM # 39 -# 45 ), by Steve Moore and Dave Gibbons, where a crew of Sontarans menaced China in 1522 AD.

* Seneca the Elder ( 54 BC – 39 AD ), Roman orator and writer, father of the above

* Seneca the Elder, Roman orator ( c. 54 BC ) ( d. c. AD 39 )

* Seneca the Elder ( approximate date ), Roman rhetor ( d. c. 39 AD )

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus ( November 3, 39 AD – April 30, 65 AD ), better known in English as Lucan, was a Roman poet, born in Corduba ( modern-day Córdoba ), in the Hispania Baetica.

Titus was born in Rome, probably on 30 December 39 AD, as the eldest son of Titus Flavius Vespasianus — commonly known as Vespasian — and Domitilla the Elder.

Berenice was a member of the Herodian Dynasty that ruled the Roman province of Judaea between 39 BC and 92 AD.

* Marcus Annaeus Lucanus ( 39 – 65 AD ), poet, historian

Although Pagels cites Athanasius's Paschal letter ( letter 39 ) for 367 AD, there is no order for monks to destroy heretical works contained in that letter.

39 AD ), was a Roman rhetorician and writer, born of a wealthy equestrian family of Cordoba, Hispania.

* Han Dynasty ( Chinese ) ( 111 BC – 39 AD and 43 – 220 )

Herodias ( c. 15 BC-after 39 AD ) was a Jewish princess of the Herodian Dynasty.

Herod Antipas ( born-before 20 BC ; died-after 39 AD ) was also the son of Herod the Great by his fourth wife, Malthace, and half-brother of Herod II.

* Agrippa ( 1st century AD )

Aiding him in his actions was his good friend, Herod Agrippa, who became governor of the territories of Batanaea and Trachonitis after Caligula became emperor in AD 37.

In AD 38, Caligula sent Agrippa to Alexandria unannounced to check on Flaccus.

Augustus banished his grandson Postumus Agrippa to the small island of Planasia ( around 6 or 7 AD ), and Tiberius was recalled to Rome and officially adopted by Augustus.

* Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa Postumus, son of Julia the Elder and grandson of Augustus ( d. AD 14 )

* Agrippina the elder, daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder ( approximate date ) ( d. AD 33 )

2. 9. 1-4 ), Herod Agrippa I in his first year of reign over the whole Judea ( AD 41 ) killed James, son of Zebedee and arrested Peter, planning to kill him after the Passover.

* Agrippa I, king of Judea ( d. AD 44 )

* Herod Agrippa I ( c. 10 BC – AD 44 ), client king of Judaea, called " King Herod " or " Herod " in Acts 12 of the New Testament

* Herod Agrippa II ( AD 27 – 100 ), tetrarch of Chalcis who was described in Acts of the Apostles as " King Agrippa " before whom Paul of Tarsus defended himself

* Vipsania Agrippina, daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Pomponia Caecilia Attica ( d. AD 20 )

* Lucius Caesar, son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder ( d. AD 2 )

* Vipsania Julia Agrippina, daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder ( d. c. AD 28 )

Immediately after the death of Tiberius ( 37 AD ), Caligula made over to Herod Agrippa, at that time a prisoner in Rome, the tetrarchy of Philip and the tetrarchy of Lysanias, while Claudius, upon his accession ( 41 ), not only confirmed the liberality of his predecessor towards Herod Agrippa, but added all that portion of Judaea and Samaria which had belonged to the kingdom of his grandfather Herod the Great, together ( says Josephus ) with Abila, which had appertained to Lysanias, and the adjoining region of Libanus.

Agrippa I, also known as Herod Agrippa or simply Herod ( 10 BC – 44 AD ), was a King of the Jews during the 1st century AD.

By his wife Cypros he had a son, Agrippa II AD ?- d. 93 AD ?, and three daughters, including:

* Berenice, 81 AD who first married her uncle Herod, king of Chalcis, and afterwards lived with her brother Agrippa, reputedly in an incestuous relationship, and subsequently married Polamo, king of Cilicia ; she is alluded to by Juvenal ; Bernice also had a common-law relationship with the Roman emperor Titus.

Agrippa II ( born AD 27 / 28 ), son of Agrippa I, and like him originally named Marcus Julius Agrippa, was the seventh and last king of the family of Herod the Great, thus last of the Herodians.

In Pliny's letter, written in AD 112, he asks Trajan if the accused Christians brought before him should be punished based on the name ‘ Christian ’ alone, or for crimes associated with the name.

Germanicus died at Syria in 19 AD and, on his deathbed, accused the governor of Syria, Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, of murdering him at Tiberius ’ s orders.

Roman rulers began to persecute the new sect almost immediately ( the emperor Nero accused the Christians of starting the fires that destroyed much of Rome in 64 AD ), and would continue to do so for centuries, sometimes vigorously, and other times passively.

( Plancina committed suicide in 33 AD after being accused again of murder after Livia's death ).

Bede was one of the first to break away from the standard Septuagint date for the creation and in his work De Temporibus (" On Time ") ( completed in 703 AD ) dated the creation to 18 March 3952 BC but was accused of heresy at the table of Bishop Wilfrid, because his chronology was contrary to accepted calculations of around 5500 BC.

In 25 AD he was forced by Sejanus who was praetorian prefect under Tiberius to take his life after being accused of maiestas.

* Sulpicius Camerinus, proconsul of Africa, accused of extortion in AD 59, and shortly afterward put to death by Nero.

In 39 AD Antipas was accused by his nephew Agrippa I of conspiracy against the new Roman emperor Caligula, who sent him into exile in Gaul.

Engaged in a dispute with the local magi in AD 420, he was accused of burning down one of their temples, a pyramid of Ahura Mazda.

The story alleges that during the persecutions of the Roman emperor Decius, around 250 AD, seven young men were accused of following Christianity.

* Julius Densus, an eques during the reign of Nero, accused of being too favorably disposed towards Britannicus in AD 56.

* Aemilia Q. f. Lepida, wife of Publius Sulpicius Quirinus, accused of various crimes and condemned in AD 20.

* Mamercus Aemilius M. f. M. n. Scaurus ( d. AD 34 ), orator and poet, twice accused of majestas.

Within a few years they were divorced ; in 20 AD he accused her of claiming that he was her son's father, and later of trying to poison him during their marriage ; Tacitus claims that she was popular with the public, who regarded Quirinius as carrying on a prosecution out of spite.

Papias ( circa AD 125 ) refers to a story of Jesus and a woman " accused of many sins " as being found in the Gospel of the Hebrews, which may well refer to this passage ; there is a very certain quotation of the pericope adulterae in the 3rd Century Syriac Didascalia Apostolorum ; though without indicating John's Gospel.

In the following year, AD 42, Silanus was put to death by Claudius, apparently because he had resisted the advances of Messalina, who subsequently accused him of plotting to assassinate Claudius.

Ibn Taymiyyah ( 1263 – 1328 AD ) objected to the identification on the basis that Alexander was a pagan idolater, and he accused the Aristotelian Muslim philosophers such as Avicenna of making the " mistaken " identification:

He committed suicide after he was accused of treason ( Law of majestas ) in 34 AD.

Nonetheless, controversy surrounds this claim as some Maronites had been accused of having fully adopted the Monothelite heresy ; this led to a number of civil wars ( e. g. 1282 and 1499 AD ).

If the accused killed themselves prior to trial and conviction then the state lost the right to seize their property, a loophole that was only closed by Domitian in the 1st century AD, who decreed that those who died prior to trial were without legal heirs.