26 BC

Year 26BC was either a common year starting on Tuesday or Wednesday or a leap year starting on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar (the sources differ, see leap year error for further information) and a common year starting on Monday of the Proleptic Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Taurus (or, less frequently, year 728 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 26 BC 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.

Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
26 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar26 BC
XXV BC
Ab urbe condita728
Ancient Greek era188th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar4725
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−618
Berber calendar925
Buddhist calendar519
Burmese calendar−663
Byzantine calendar5483–5484
Chinese calendar甲午年 (Wood Horse)
2671 or 2611
     to 
乙未年 (Wood Goat)
2672 or 2612
Coptic calendar−309 – −308
Discordian calendar1141
Ethiopian calendar−33 – −32
Hebrew calendar3735–3736
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat31–32
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga3075–3076
Holocene calendar9975
Iranian calendar647 BP – 646 BP
Islamic calendar667 BH – 666 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendar26 BC
XXV BC
Korean calendar2308
Minguo calendar1937 before ROC
民前1937年
Nanakshahi calendar−1493
Seleucid era286/287 AG
Thai solar calendar517–518
Tibetan calendar阳木马年
(male Wood-Horse)
101 or −280 or −1052
     to 
阴木羊年
(female Wood-Goat)
102 or −279 or −1051

Events

By place

Roman Empire

  • Imperator Caesar Augustus becomes Roman Consul for the eighth time. His partner Titus Statilius Taurus becomes Consul for the second time and refounds the old Contestanian Iberian capital of Ilici (Elche), known since then as "Colonia Iulia Ilici Augusta".
  • Cleopatra Selene marries Juba II of Numidia, and as a wedding present Augustus makes her the queen of Mauretania in her own right.
  • Disastrous campaign of Aelius Gallus in the Arabian Peninsula, then known as "Arabia Felix".
  • Tiridates II invades Parthia and issues coins dated from March and May, 26 BC.
  • Gavius Silo, orator, is heard by Caesar Augustus - mentioned by Seneca.
  • Augustus starts campaign against the Cantabrians in northern Hispania. He leads an army (8 legions) and consolidates the north-eastern region.

Greece

  • Dioteimus Alaieus is one of the Archons of Athens.

Osroene

  • Abgar III of Osroene is succeeded by Abgar IV Sumaqa.

Asia

By topic

Astronomy

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