10

This page is about the year 10 AD. For the actual number, see ten.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC – 1st century – 2nd century
Decades:	10s BC  0s BC  0s  – 10s –  20s  30s  40s
Years:	7 AD 8 AD 9 AD – 10 AD – 11 AD 12 AD 13 AD

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  The Tetractys is a triangular figure consisting of ten points arranged in four rows: one, two, three, and four points in each row. As a mystical symbol devised by Pythagoras it was very important to the Pythagoreans.

10 playing cards of all four suits

10 is a year in the 1st century. It was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, throughout the Roman Empire, it was known as the year of the consulship of Dolabella and Silanus

Events

• Differentiation of localized Teutonic tribes of the Irminones.
• The Greek dynasty in Bactria is ended
• Publius Cornelius Dolabella is a Roman Consul.
• Illyria is divided into Pannonia and Dalmatia.
• Ovid finishes writing Tristia (the "Sorrows") (5 books) and Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters from the Black Sea) (4 books) describing the sadness of banishment.

Births

• Hero of Alexandria, Greek engineer (d. c. 70)
• Saint Peter, one of Jesus' disciples and the first pope (d. c. 64).

Deaths

• Didymus Chalcenterus, Greek scholar and grammarian. (b. c. 63 BC)