Acronyms that contain the term 70-79 

70-79

This is a list of events occurring in the 70s, ordered by year. ⁕Emperor Vespasian and his son Caesar Vespasian become Roman Consuls. ⁕Panic strikes Rome as adverse winds delay grain shipments from Africa and Egypt, producing a bread shortage. Ships laden with wheat from North Africa sail 300 miles to Rome's port of Ostia in 3 days, and the 1,000 mile voyage from Alexandria averages 13 days. The vessels often carry 1,000 tons each to provide the city with 8,000 tons per week it normally consumes. ⁕Sextus Julius Frontinus is praetor of Rome. Legio II Adiutrix is created from marines of Classis Ravennatis. ⁕Pliny the Elder serves as procurator in Gallia Narbonensis. ⁕April 14 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus surrounds the Jewish capital, with three legions on the western side and a fourth on the Mount of Olives to the east. He puts pressure on the food and water supplies of the inhabitants by allowing pilgrims to enter the city to celebrate Passover and then refusing them egress. ⁕May 10 – Titus opens a full-scale assault on Jerusalem, he concentrates his attack on the city's Third Wall to the northwest. The Roman army tries to breach the wall using testudos, mantlets, siege towers, and battering rams.

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