AD 74

AD 74 (LXXIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Titus (third time) and Vespasian (fifth time) (or, less frequently, year 827 Ab urbe condita). The denomination AD 74 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

Emperor Vespasian and his son Titus Caesar Vespasianus become Roman Consuls.{{Cite web |url=https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/chronography_of_354_08_fasti.htm |title=The Chronography of 354 AD. Part 8: Consular feasts from the fall of the kings to AD 354}}
The Black Forest region is reattached to the Roman Empire.{{citation needed |date=November 2024}}
December 27 – Vespasian grants generous privileges to doctors and teachers.{{citation needed |date=November 2024}}

Emperor Ming of Han appoints Chen Mu to the revived office of Protector of the Western Regions.{{cite web | url=http://www.chinaknowledge.de/History/Altera/xiyu.html | title=The Western Territories (西域) |website=ChinaKnowledge.de |date=23 Oct 2011 |first=Urlich |last=Theobald }}
Chinese generals Dou Gu (Teou Kou) and Geng Bing (Keng Ping) take control of Turpan.{{citation needed |date=November 2021}}

Mesopotamia: The last known cuneiform text is written.{{cite journal|last1=Westenholz|first1=Aage|date=December 18, 2007|title=The Graeco-Babyloniaca Once Again|url=https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/zava/97/2/article-p262.xml|journal=Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie|volume=97|issue=2|page=294|doi=10.1515/ZA.2007.014|s2cid=161908528|quote=The latest datable cuneiform tablet that we have today concerns astronomical events of 75 AD and comes from Babylon. It provides a terminus post quem, at least for Babylon.}}

March 18 – Hyginus, bishop of Rome{{citation needed |date=November 2024 |reason=no birth year listed on main article}}

Caenis, Roman slave and secretary of Antonia Minor (mother of Emperor Claudius) and mistress of Emperor Vespasian
Polemon II, prince of the Bosporan Kingdom, Pontus, Cilicia and Cappadocia