According to Tacitus, they drew inspiration from the example of Arminius, the prince of the Cherusci who had driven the Romans out of Germany in AD 9, and their own ancestors who had driven Julius Caesar from Britain.

Between 6 and 9 AD the Dalmatians raised the last in a series of revolts together with the Pannonians, but it was finally crushed and in 10 AD Illyricum was split into two provinces, Pannonia and Dalmatia.

Saint Columba ( 7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD )— also known as Colum Cille, or Chille ( Old Irish, meaning " dove of the church "), Colm Cille ( Irish ), Calum Cille ( Scottish Gaelic ), Colum Keeilley ( Manx Gaelic ) and Kolban or Kolbjørn ( Old Norse )— was a Gaelic Irish missionary monk who propagated Christianity among the Picts during the Early Medieval Period.

Another census dates to AD 144, when 49. 73 million people were recorded living in 9. 94 million households.

Subsequent attempts by Emperor Augustus to annex territories east of the Rhine were abandoned, after Arminius annihilated three Roman legions at the Battle of the Teutoburg forest in 9 AD.

After visiting the site of the disastrous Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, where 20, 000 Romans had been killed in 9 AD, and burying their remains, he launched a massive assault on the heartland of Arminius ' tribe, the Cherusci.

The victory of the Germanic tribes in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ( AD 9 ) prevented annexation by the Roman Empire.

In 9 AD, a Cherusci chieftain named Arminius defeated a Roman army in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, a victory credited with stopping the Roman advance into Germanic territories and forming the birth of German history.

1175-1280 ( c. 250 BC ); Bibliotheca 1. 9. 19, 2. 7. 7 ( 140 BC ); Sextus Propertius, Elegies, i. 20. 17ff ( 50 – 15 BC ); Ovid, Ibis, 488 ( AD 8 – 18 ); Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, I. 110, III. 535, 560, IV. 1-57 ( 1st century ); Hyginus, Fables, 14.

In the Antiquities of the Jews ( Book 20, Chapter 9, 1 ) Josephus refers to the stoning of " James the brother of Jesus " by order of Ananus ben Ananus, a Herodian-era High Priest who died c. 68 AD.

The first mention of the Lombards occurred between AD 9 and 16, by the Roman court historian Velleius Paterculus, who accompanied a Roman expedition as prefect of the cavalry.

Marobod had made peace with the Romans, and that is why the Lombards were not part of the Germanic confederacy under Arminius at the Battle of Teutoburg Forest in AD 9.

Rivalry between him and Arminius, the Cheruscan leader who inflicted the devastating defeat at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest on the Romans under Publius Quinctilius Varus in 9 AD, prevented a concerted attack on Roman territory across the Rhine in the north ( by Arminius ) and in the Danube basin in the south ( by Maroboduus ).

A Chinese playing card dated c. 1400 AD, Ming Dynasty, found near Turpan, measuring 9. 5 by 3. 5 cm.

Trajan (; ; 18 September 53 – 9 August 117 ), was Roman Emperor from 98 to 117 AD.

Vespasian (; ; 17 November 9 – 23 June 79 ) was Roman Emperor from AD 69 to AD 79.

His grandfather, Zhang Kan, had been governor of a commandery, and one of the leaders who supported the restoration of the Han Dynasty by Emperor Guangwu ( r. 25 – 57 ), following the death of the usurper Wang Mang and his short-lived Xin Dynasty ( AD 9 – 23 ).

: This article is about the first " decade " of the AD / CE time system ( AD 1 – 9 ).

* Crimthann Nia Náir, Legendary High King of Ireland, r. 8 BC – 9 AD

* Hillel the Elder, Jewish scholar and Nasi of the Sanhedrin, in office c. 31 BC – 9 AD

* Crimthann Nia Náir, Legendary High King of Ireland, r. ( 8 BC – 9 AD )

In 451 AD, Attila the Hun was defeated only with help of the foederati ( who included the Visigoths and Alans ), and the foederati would deliver the fatal blow to the dying nominal Western Roman Empire in 476 AD, when their commander Odoacer deposed the usurper Western Emperor, Romulus Augustulus, and sent the imperial insignia back to Constantinople with the Senate's request that the 81 year old West / East sub-division of the empire be abolished.

The Emperor Gallienus Augustus ( 253 – 268 AD ) and his general and would-be usurper Aureolus bear much of the responsibility for the institution of Roman cataphract contingents in the Late Roman army.

Later, during the Red Eyebrows Rebellion ( c. 20 AD ) against the usurper Wang Mang ( 45 BC – 23 AD ), the official Zhao Xi saved his wife from danger by disguising himself and pushing her along in his lu che barrow, past a group of brigand rebels who questioned him, and allowed him to pass after he convinced them that his wife was terribly ill.

During the reign of the usurper emperors Carausius and Allectus ( 286-293 and 293-296 AD ) the XX Valeria Victrix was still active.

For example, in 16 AD the Xin Dynasty usurper Wang Mang called for the dissection of an executed man, to examine his arteries and viscera in order to discover cures for illnesses.

It was probably created as part of the administrative reforms of the Roman Emperor Diocletian after the defeat of the usurper Allectus by Constantius Chlorus in 296 AD.

Britannia Secunda was one of the provinces of Roman Britain in existence by c. 312 AD and probably created as part of the administrative reforms of the Roman Emperor Diocletian after the defeat of the usurper Allectus by Constantius Chlorus in 296 AD.

* in 268 AD, before the city was founded, the Roman Emperor Gallienus defeated the usurper Aureolus near the bridge crossing, but was killed after the battle by a conspiracy instigated by Aureolus.

Empress Wang ( 王皇后, personal name unknown ) ( 8 BC – AD 23 ), formally Empress Xiaoping ( 孝平皇后 ), formally during her father Wang Mang's Xin Dynasty Duchess Dowager of Ding ' an ( 定安太后 ) then Princess Huanghuang ( 黃皇室主 ) was an empress during the Han Dynasty -- the last of the Western Han Dynasty — who was the daughter of the eventual usurper Wang Mang.

Wang Mang was eventually killed in Weiyang Palace by an enraged peasant mob in AD 23.

Wang Bi (, 226 – 249 AD ) was a famous Three Kingdoms period philosopher and commentator on the Tao Te Ching ( tr.

Reverently to be made for universal free distribution by Wang Jie on behalf of his two parents on the 13th of the 4th moon of the 9th year of Xiantong 11th May, AD 868

* Although Philo of Byzantium described the saqiya chain pump in the early 2nd century BC, the square-pallet chain pump was innovated in China during this century, mentioned first by the philosopher Wang Chong around 80 AD.

The regent Wang Mang seized control of the government and ruled until AD 23.

In AD 23, the Chimei overthrew and executed Wang Mang.

* Empress Wang ( d. AD 23 )

Wang Xizhi was a famous Chinese calligrapher who lived in the 4th century AD.

This was featured in Wang Zhen's book the Nong Shu of 1313 AD.

In 30 AD, the rebellion was stopped by Wang Zun ( 王遵 ), whom Emperor Guangwu appointed as governor.

* c. 80 AD-In his Lunheng ( 論衡 ; Critical Essays ), the Han Dynasty Chinese philosopher Wang Chong ( 27-97 AD ) dispels the Chinese myth of rain coming from the heavens, and states that rain is evaporated from water on the earth into the air and forms clouds, stating that clouds condense into rain and also form dew, and says when the clothes of people in high mountains are moistened, this is because of the air-suspended rain water.

Near the end of Wang Mang's Xin Dynasty ( AD 9 – AD 23 ), Lü Zhi's body was desecrated by Chimei rebels when they raided Gaozu's tomb.

Wang Mang () ( c. 45 BC – 6 October 23 AD ), courtesy name Jujun ( 巨君 ), was a Han Dynasty official who seized the throne from the Liu family and founded the Xin ( or Hsin, meaning " new ") Dynasty ( 新朝 ), ruling AD 9 – 23.

When Emperor Ping died as a child in AD 6, Wang Mang chose ( to his own advantage ) an infant successor, the Emperor Ruzi, who had only been born in AD 5.

This did not sit well with the aristocracy, which forced Wang to rescind his decree in AD 12.

In 1 AD, after bribing the distant Yueshang Tribes ( probably in modern southern Vietnam ) to submit offerings of an albino pheasant ( considered a rare sign of divine favor ), Wang was successful in having his followers persuade Grand Empress Dowager Wang to create him the Duke of Anhan ( 安漢公 ) -- even though the Han nobility system did not include dukes and no duke had ever been created in Han history up to that point — to let his title parallel that of the Duke of Zhou.

An illustration of furnace bellows operated by waterwheel s, from the Nong Shu, by Wang Zhen ( official ) | Wang Zhen, 1313 AD, during the Yuan Dynasty of China