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• Herod Archelaus
  Herod Archelaus
  
  Herod Archelaus was the ethnarch of Samaria, Judea, and Edom from 4 BC to 6 AD. He was the son of Herod the Great and Malthace, the brother of Herod Antipas, and the half-brother of Herod Philip I....
  , ethnarch
  Ethnarch
  
  Ethnarch refers generally to political leadership over a common ethnic group or heterogeneous kingdom. The word is derived from the Greek language words for "nation" and "leader" ....
   of Samaria
  Samaria
  
  Samaria, or the Shomron is a term used for the mountainous region in northern Israel roughly corresponding to the northern part of the West Bank....
  , Judea
  Judea
  
  Judea or Jud?a is the name given to the mountainous southern part of the historic Land of Israel , an area now divided between Israel and the West Bank ....
  , and Idumea, is deposed and banished to Vienne
  Vienne
  
  Vienne is a d?partement of France, named after the Vienne River....
   in Gaul
  Gaul
  
  Gaul is the name used for the region of Western Europe comprising part of present day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the River Rhine....
  .
• Iudaea
  Iudaea Province
  
  Iudaea was a Roman province that extended over the former region of the Hasmonean and Herodian kingdoms of Israel. It was named after the tetrarchy of Judea of which it was an expansion, the latter name deriving from the Kingdom of Judah of the 6th century BCE....
   and Moesia
  Moesia
  
  Moesia was an ancient region and Roman province situated in the areas of modern Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania along the south bank of the Danube River....
   become Roman
  Roman Empire
  
  The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
   provinces; Syria
  Syria (Roman province)
  
  Syria was a Roman province, annexed in 64 BC by Pompey, as a consequence of his military presence after pursuing victory in the Third Mithridatic War....
   is guarded by legions X Fretensis
  Legio X Fretensis
  
  Legio decima Fretensis of the sea strait") was a Roman legion levied by Augustus in 41/40 BC to fight during the period of Roman Civil War that started the dissolution of the Roman Republic....
  , III Gallica
  Legio III Gallica
  
  Legio tertia Gallica was a Roman legion levied by Julius Caesar around 49 BC, for his Roman Republican civil wars against the conservative republicans led by Pompey....
  , VI Ferrata
  Legio VI Ferrata
  
  Legio VI Ferrata , was a Roman Legion formed in 65 BC, and in existence up to at least 215 AD. It served under Julius Caesar in the Gallic Wars , and in the various Roman civil wars of the Roman Republic in the years before and after Caesar's assassination ....
  , and XII Fulminata
  Legio XII Fulminata
  
  Legio duodecima Fulminata , also known as Paterna, Victrix, Antiqua, Certa Constans, and Galliena, was a Roman legion, levied by Julius Caesar in 58 BC and which accompanied him during the Gallic wars until 49 BC....
  .
• Augustus sets up a special treasury, the aerarium militare, to pay bonuses to retiring legion veterans.
• Tiberius
  Tiberius
  
  Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus, born Tiberius Claudius Nero , was the second Roman Emperor, from the death of Augustus in AD 14 until his own death in 37....
   makes Carnuntum
  Carnuntum
  
  Carnuntum was an important Roman Empire army camp in what is now Austria. It belonged originally to Noricum province, but after the 1st century was part of Pannonia....
   his base of operations against Maroboduus; The Roman legion
  Roman legion
  
  The Roman Legion is a term that can apply both as a translation of legio to the entire Roman army and also, more narrowly , to the heavy infantry that was the basic military unit of the Roman army in the period of the late Roman Republic and the Roman Empire....
   XX Valeria Victrix
  Legio XX Valeria Victrix
  
  Legio vigesima Valeria Victrix was a Roman legion, probably raised by Augustus some time after 31 BC. It served in Hispania, Illyricum, and Germania before participating in the invasion of Britannia in 43 AD, where it remained and was active until at least the beginning of the 4th century....
   fights with Tiberius against the Marcomanni
  Marcomanni
  
  The Marcomanni were a Germanic tribe, probably related to the Buri , Suebi or Suevi....
  .
• The Pannonians, with the Dalmatians and other Illyrian tribes, revolt, only to be overcome by Tiberius after a hard-fought three year long campaign.
• The building of a Roman fort signifies the origin of the city of Wiesbaden
  Wiesbaden
  
  Wiesbaden is a city in southwestern Germany and the capital of the States of Germany of Hesse. It has about 300,400 inhabitants, plus approximately 35,000 United States citizens ....
  .
• Caecina Severus is made governor of Moesia.
• Publius Sulpicius Quirinius becomes Governor of Syria and nominally of Judea.
• Quirinius
  Quirinius
  
  Publius Sulpicius Quirinius was a Roman Empire aristocrat. His governorship of Syria is one of the Chronology of Jesus for the birth of Jesus....
   conducts a census
  Census
  
  A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population....
   in Judea
  Judea
  
  Judea or Jud?a is the name given to the mountainous southern part of the historic Land of Israel , an area now divided between Israel and the West Bank ....
   (according to Josephus
  Josephus
  
  Josephus , also known as Yosef Ben Matityahu and, after he became a Roman citizenship, as Titus Flavius Josephus, was a first-century Jewish historian and apologist of priestly and royal ancestry who survived and recorded the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70....
  ), which results in a revolt in the province, led by Judas the Galilean, and supported by the Pharisee Zadok. The revolt is repressed, and the rebels are crucified, but it results in the birth of the Zealot movement, the members of which regard God as their only master.
• Due to a food shortage in Rome
  Rome
  
  Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
  , Augustus doubles the corn rations distributed to the people.
• Due to a catastrophic fire in Rome, the barracks system is created to allow quicker response in the case of emergencies.
• Augustus banishes Agrippa Postumus
  Agrippa Postumus
  
  Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa Postumus , also known as Agrippa Postumus or Postumus Agrippa, was a son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder....
  , one of his adopted sons, to the island of Planasia.
• Marcus Aemilius Lepidus
  Marcus Aemilius Lepidus
  
  Marcus Aemilius Lepidus may refer to:* Marcus Aemilius Lepidus , consul in 232 BC and 221 BC, and augur* Marcus Aemilius Lepidus , consul in 187 BC and 175 BC, Pontifex Maximus 180?152 BC, and censor...
   and Lucius Arruntius
  Lucius Arruntius
  
  Lucius Arruntius was a Ancient Rome Admiral. He saw action during the War with Sextus Pompeius, and the war of Mark Antony and Augustus. He is most notable for his participation during the Battle of Actium, where he was in command of victorious Augustus' central division....
   become Roman consuls.
• Theophilus becomes Archon of Athens
  Archon of Athens
  
  This is a list of the eponymous archons of Athens ....
  . There are no further records of Archons until after 23
  23
  
  Year 23 was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar....
  .

China

• January — Some Chinese fear for the life of the young, ailing Emperor Ping Di
  Emperor Ping of Han
  
  Emperor Ping was an emperor of China of the Chinese Han Dynasty from 1 BC to 5 AD. After Emperor Ai died childless, the throne was passed to his cousin Emperor Ping - then a child of 9 years old....
   as the planet Mars disappears behind the moon this month.
• February 3 — the boy emperor, Ping Di
  Emperor Ping of Han
  
  Emperor Ping was an emperor of China of the Chinese Han Dynasty from 1 BC to 5 AD. After Emperor Ai died childless, the throne was passed to his cousin Emperor Ping - then a child of 9 years old....
   dies of unexpected causes at age 14; Wang Mang
  Wang Mang
  
  Wang Mang , courtesy name Jujun , was a Han Dynasty official who seized the throne from the Liu family and founded the Xin Dynasty Dynasty , ruling AD 9?23....
   alone selects the new emperor, the Ruzi Ying
  Ruzi Ying
  
  Emperor Ruzi of Han , commonly known as "Ying the Kid" and with the personal name of Liu Ying , was last emperor of China of the Chinese Western Han Dynasty from AD 6 to AD 9....
  , age 2, starting the Jushe era of the Han Dynasty
  Han Dynasty
  
  The Han Dynasty followed the Qin Dynasty and preceded the Three Kingdoms in China. The Han Dynasty was ruled by the family known as the Liu clan who had peasant origins....
  .
• Candidates for government office must take civil-service examinations.
• The imperial Liu clan suspect the intentions of Wang Mang
  Wang Mang
  
  Wang Mang , courtesy name Jujun , was a Han Dynasty official who seized the throne from the Liu family and founded the Xin Dynasty Dynasty , ruling AD 9?23....
   and foment agrarian rebellions during the course of Ruzi Ying's reign. The first of these is led by Liu Chong, Marquess of Ang-Zong (a/k/a Marquis of An-chung), with a small force starting in May or June.

Births

• Jesus
  Jesus
  
  Jesus of Nazareth , also known as Jesus Christ, is the central figure of Christianity and is revered by most Christian churches as the Son of God and the Incarnation ....
  , usually considered the latest possible year of birth, based on the Quirinius
  Quirinius
  
  Publius Sulpicius Quirinius was a Roman Empire aristocrat. His governorship of Syria is one of the Chronology of Jesus for the birth of Jesus....
   census
  Census
  
  A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population....
   in that year (historicity questionable).
• Nero Caesar
  Nero Caesar
  
  Nero Julius Caesar Germanicus was a close relative of the Roman Emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.Nero was born in 6 to Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder....
  , son of Germanicus
  Germanicus
  
  Germanicus Julius Caesar Claudianus . Born in Lugdunum, Gaul , was a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty of the early Roman Empire. At birth he was named either Nero Claudius Drusus after his father or Tiberius Claudius Nero after his uncle and received the agnomen Germanicus, by which he is principally known, in 9 BC, when...
   and Agrippina the elder
  Agrippina the elder
  
  Vipsania Agrippina or most commonly known as Agrippina Major was a distinguished and prominent Roman Princess that lived between the 1st century BC and 1st century....
   (d. 30).
• Milonia Caesonia
  Caesonia
  
  Milonia Caesonia was a Roman Empress. She rose from modest origins to become the fourth and last wife of the Roman Emperor Caligula. She was a daughter of a Roman woman called Vistilia, who came from a family who held the praetorship and her father is unknown....
  , Roman empress (d. 41).

Deaths

• February 3 - Ping
  Emperor Ping of Han
  
  Emperor Ping was an emperor of China of the Chinese Han Dynasty from 1 BC to 5 AD. After Emperor Ai died childless, the throne was passed to his cousin Emperor Ping - then a child of 9 years old....
  , emperor of Han China
  Han Dynasty
  
  The Han Dynasty followed the Qin Dynasty and preceded the Three Kingdoms in China. The Han Dynasty was ruled by the family known as the Liu clan who had peasant origins....
   (born 9 BC)
• Cleopatra Selene (II)
  Cleopatra Selene (II)
  
  Cleopatra Selene II , also known as Cleopatra VIII of Egypt or Cleopatra VIII was a Ptolemaic Princess and was the only daughter to Greeks Ptolemaic queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Roman Republic triumvir Mark Antony....
  , Egyptian ruler of Cyrenaica
  Cyrenaica
  
  Cyrenaica or Cirenaica is the eastern coastal region of Libya and also an ex-province or state of the country in the pre-1963 administrative system....
   and Libya
  Libya
  
  Libya , officially the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya , is a country located in North Africa. Bordering the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Libya lies between Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....
   (born 40 BC)
• Orodes III
  Orodes III of Parthia
  
  Orodes III of Parthia was raised to the throne of the Parthia by the magnates after the death of Phraates V of Parthia , c. AD 6. He was killed after a short reign "on account of his extreme cruelty" ....
  , briefly emperor of Parthia
  Parthia
  
  Parthia is a region of north-eastern Iran, best known for having been the political and cultural base of the Arsacid dynasty, after which the Arsacid Empire is then also known as the 'Parthian Empire'....