Year 49 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Roman Empire · Emperor Claudius marries his niece Agrippina the Younger (approximate date). · Seneca the Younger becomes Nero's tutor. · Melankomas is the boxing champion at the 207th Olympic Games. · Likely date for the expulsion of the Jews from Rome. · Nero becomes engaged to Octavia, daughter of Claudius. · Agrippina the Younger charges Octavia's first fiancé Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus with incest. He is brought before the Senate and sentenced to death. · In Britain, governor Publius Ostorius Scapula founds a colonia for Roman veterans at Camulodunum (Colchester). Verulamium (St Albans) is probably established as a municipium the same year. A legion is stationed on the borders of the Silures of South Wales in preparation for inv