1st century
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(1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century - other centuries)
Events:
- beginning of Christianity
- spread of Roman Empire
- Masoretes adds vowel pointings to the text of the Tanakh
- Pompeii destroyed by eruption of Mount Vesuvius in August 79 AD
- Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka first write down Buddha's teachings, creating the Pali canon.
- Buddhism reaches China.
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