A birthday invitation from Vindolanda
A Roman woman invites a friend to her birthday party
A Roman fort in northern Britain preserved wooden tablets with letters from officers and their families. The best known is Claudia Severa's invitation to her friend Sulpicia Lepidina to a birthday party around AD 100, one of the oldest known texts in Latin by a woman.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Africa
- c. 100 The rise of Aksum — same year
Asia
- 105 Cai Lun and the invention of paper — 5 years later
Alive at the time
- Claudius Ptolemy (aged 0)
- Ban Zhao (aged 55)
- Zhang Heng (aged 22)