AD 52

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC 1st century 2nd century
Decades:	30s 40s 50s 60s 70s
Years:	49 50 51 AD 52 53 54 55

AD 52 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	AD 52 LII
Ab urbe condita	805
Assyrian calendar	4802
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−541
Berber calendar	1002
Buddhist calendar	596
Burmese calendar	−586
Byzantine calendar	5560–5561
Chinese calendar	辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 2749 or 2542     — to — 壬子年 (Water Rat) 2750 or 2543
Coptic calendar	−232 – −231
Discordian calendar	1218
Ethiopian calendar	44–45
Hebrew calendar	3812–3813
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	108–109
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3152–3153
Holocene calendar	10052
Iranian calendar	570 BP – 569 BP
Islamic calendar	588 BH – 587 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	AD 52 LII
Korean calendar	2385
Minguo calendar	1860 before ROC 民前1860年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1416
Seleucid era	363/364 AG
Thai solar calendar	594–595
Tibetan calendar	阴金猪年 (female Iron-Pig) 178 or −203 or −975     — to — 阳水鼠年 (male Water-Rat) 179 or −202 or −974

AD 52 (LII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sulla and Otho (or, less frequently, year 805 Ab urbe condita). The denomination AD 52 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Emperor Claudius attempts to control the Fucine Lake by digging a 5.6 km tunnel through Monte Salviano, requiring 30,000 workers and eleven years.
• Claudius completes the Aqua Claudia and Anio Novus, two aqueduct projects started by Caligula
• In Rome a law prohibits the execution of old and crippled slaves.
• Ananias, a high priest in Jerusalem, is sent to Rome after being accused of violence.
• Barea Soranus is consul suffectus in Rome.
• Pliny the Elder writes his account of the German wars.
• Tiridates I, brother of Vologases I, comes to power in Armenia as an adversary of the Romans.
• In Britain, governor Publius Ostorius Scapula dies while campaigning against the Silures of south Wales. Following his death, the Roman Second Legion are heavily defeated by the Silures. His replacement is Aulus Didius Gallus, who quells the rebellion and consolidates the gains the Romans have so far made, but does not seek new ones.

China

• The Yuejue Shu, the first known gazetteer of China, is written during the Han Dynasty.

By topic

Religion

• Saint Thomas, one of the twelve disciples of Jesus, is believed to have landed in Kodungallur, India to preach the Gospel; the Marthoma Church, the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church, the Indian Orthodox Church, and the Assyrian Church of the East claim descent from him.

Deaths

• Gamaliel, Jewish leader (nasi) (approximate date)
• Guo Shengtong, Chinese empress of the Han Dynasty
• Julia Iotapa, queen of Commagene (approximate date)
• Publius Ostorius Scapula, Roman statesman and general

Bibliography

• Stambaugh, John E. (1988). The Ancient Roman City. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-3574-7.