47

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC – 1st century – 2nd century
Decades:	10s 20s 30s – 40s – 50s 60s 70s
Years:	44 45 46 – 47 – 48 49 50

For the Hitman game series character, see: Agent 47.

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

Year 47 (XLVII) was common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

Consuls are the emperor Claudius and Lucius Vitellius.
Romans build the Traiectum fortification near the mouth of the Rhine, that will later grow to be the city of Utrecht.
Pliny the Elder sees military service in Germany.
Publius Ostorius Scapula becomes governor of Britain, in place of Aulus Plautius. The south-east of the island is now a Roman province, while certain states on the south coast are ruled as a nominally independent client kingdom by Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus, whose seat is probably at Fishbourne near Chichester. Ostorius immediately faces incursions from unconquered areas, which he puts down.
Claudius finds the city Forum Claudii Vallensium (modern Martigny) in the Alpes Poeninae (Switzerland).
Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo is made commander of the Roman army in Germania Inferior, he conquers the Chauci and fights against the Cherusci and Frisians.
Corbulo ordered the construction of the canal Fossa Corbulonis, between the Rhine and Meuse in the Netherlands, which connects the city Forum Hadriani (Voorburg).
Cauci pirates led by the Roman deserter Gannascus ravage the Gallic coast; Corbulo uses the Rhine fleet against them. The Frisian revolt is suppressed.
Claudius revives the censorship and ludi saeculares, he organises the order of the Haruspices with 60 members.
Musselburgh is founded in Roman Britain (Scotland).