43

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC – 1st century – 2nd century
Decades:	10s 20s 30s – 40s – 50s 60s 70s
Years:	40 41 42 – 43 – 44 45 46

43 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

Year 43 (XLIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

The long Roman conquest of Britain begins. Aulus Plautius lands with four legions (20,000 men) and an same number of auxiliaries at Rutupiae (modern Richborough, on the east coast of Kent) and defeats the Britons, led by Caratacus and Togodumnus, in battles on the rivers Medway and Thames. He halts at the Thames and sends for emperor Claudius, who leads the march on Camulodunum. Eleven British kings, probably including those of the Iceni and Brigantes, submit without a fight. Meanwhile, the future emperor Vespasian begins to subdue the south-west. The Romans begin to construct forts such as at Peterborough, and begin to construct a road that later becomes Ermine Street.

Consuls are the emperor Claudius (his second consulship as emperor, third in total) and Lucius Vitellius.
Claudius annexes Lycia in Asia Minor, combining it with Pamphylia as a Roman province.
The Romans now have complete control of the Mediterranean.

Warfare begins between the northern and southern Huns.
The warrior Trung Sisters commit suicide after their resistance is defeated at Nam Viet in Vietnam.
Vietnam is designated a province of China.
Vardanes I of Parthia forces the city of Seleucia on the Tigris to surrender.

In Coptic Orthodox Christianity, Mark the Evangelist becomes the first Pope of Alexandria, thus establishing the Christian Church in Africa.

Togodumnus, King of the Catuvellauni
Julia, daughter of Drusus the Younger, granddaughter of Tiberius, niece of Claudius, executed (or perhaps forced to commit suicide) at the instigation of Messalina