AD 6

AD 6 (VI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lepidus and Lucius Arruntius the Younger (or, less frequently, year 759 Ab urbe condita). The denomination "AD 6" 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
Centuries:	1st century BC 1st century 2nd century
Decades:	10s BC 0s BC 0s 10s 20s
Years:	AD 3 AD 4 AD 5 AD 6 AD 7 AD 8 AD 9

AD 6 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	AD 6 VI
Ab urbe condita	759
Assyrian calendar	4756
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−587
Berber calendar	956
Buddhist calendar	550
Burmese calendar	−632
Byzantine calendar	5514–5515
Chinese calendar	乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 2702 or 2642     — to — 丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 2703 or 2643
Coptic calendar	−278 – −277
Discordian calendar	1172
Ethiopian calendar	−2 – −1
Hebrew calendar	3766–3767
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	62–63
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3106–3107
Holocene calendar	10006
Iranian calendar	616 BP – 615 BP
Islamic calendar	635 BH – 634 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	AD 6 VI
Korean calendar	2339
Minguo calendar	1906 before ROC 民前1906年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1462
Seleucid era	317/318 AG
Thai solar calendar	548–549
Tibetan calendar	阴木牛年 (female Wood-Ox) 132 or −249 or −1021     — to — 阳火虎年 (male Fire-Tiger) 133 or −248 or −1020

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Due to a catastrophic fire in Rome, the barracks system - the vigiles, initially manned only by freedmen - is created by the Princeps Augustus to allow quicker response to outbreaks of fire in the city.[1]
• Due to a food shortage in Rome, Augustus doubles the grain rations distributed to the people, sends away his slave retinue, and places the senate in recess indefinitely. [2]
• The Princeps Augustus sets up a treasury, the aerarium militare (170 million sestertii), with the specific purpose of paying bonuses to retiring legion veterans. This is financed by a 5% tax on inheritances, a system said to have been suggested in Julius Caesar's memoirs.[3]
• The Temple of Castor and Pollux is rededicated in Rome to Tiberius.
• A pamphletting campaign in Rome is quashed by the Princeps Augustus. Publius Plautius Rufus is accused but found innocent of the crime.[4]
• Princeps Augustus banishes Agrippa Postumus, one of his adopted sons, to the island of Planasia.
• Tiberius makes Carnuntum his base of operations against Maroboduus; The Roman legion XX Valeria Victrix fight with Tiberius against the Marcomanni.[5]
• The building of a Roman fort signifies the origin of the city of Wiesbaden.
• The Illyrian tribes in Dalmatia and Pannonia revolt and begin the Bellum Batonianum or Great Illyrian Revolt. [6][7]
• Troops are levied in Rome to send to Illyricum from freedmen and slaves freed specifically for the purpose.[8]
• Tiberius marches back from the northern border to Illyricum to commence operations against the Illyrians.[9][10]
• Gaius Caecina Severus is made governor of Moesia, and is heavily involved in the first battles of the Bellum Batonianum or Great Illyrian Revolt.[11][12]
• Marcus Plautius Silvanus is made governor of Galatia et Pamphylia and suppresses an uprising of the Isaurians in Pamphylia. [13]
• Herod Archelaus, ethnarch of Samaria, Judea, and Idumea, is deposed and banished to Vienne in Gaul.[14]
• Iudaea and Moesia become Roman provinces destroying the Dardani.
• Quirinius conducts a census in Judea (according to Josephus), which results in a revolt in the province, led by Judas of Galilee, 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 the God of Judaism as their only master.

China

• January – Some Chinese fear for the life of the young, ailing Emperor Ping Di as the planet Mars disappears behind the moon this month.[15]
• February 3 – The boy emperor, Ping Di, dies of unexpected causes at age 14; Wang Mang alone selects the new emperor, Ruzi Ying, age 2,[15] starting the Jushe era of the Han Dynasty.
• Candidates for government office must take civil-service examinations.
• The imperial Liu clan suspect the intentions of Wang Mang 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.[15]

Births

• Gaius Manlius Valens, Roman senator and consul (d. AD 96)
• Jesus (usually considered the latest possible year of birth, based on the Quirinius census in that year)
• John the Apostle, Jewish Christian mystic (approximate date)
• Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Roman politician (d. AD 39)
• Matthias, Jewish governor and priest (d. AD 70)
• Milonia Caesonia, Roman empress (d. AD 41)
• Nero Julius Caesar, son of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder (d. AD 30)

Deaths

• February 3 – Ping, Chinese emperor of the Han Dynasty (b. 9 BC)
• Cleopatra Selene II, Egyptian ruler of Cyrenaica and Libya (b. 40 BC)
• Orodes III, king (shah) of the Parthian Empire
• Terentia, wife of Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 98 BC)

References

1. Cassius Dio, The Roman Histories, Book 55, ch 26.
2. Cassius Dio, The Roman Histories, Book 55, ch 26-27.
3. Cassius Dio, The Roman Histories, Book 55, ch 25.
4. Cassius Dio, The Roman Histories, Book 55, ch 27.
5. Cassius Dio, The Roman Histories, Book 55, ch 29.
6. Cassius Dio, The Roman Histories, Book 55, ch 29.
7. Velleius Paterculus, Book 2, Ch 110.
8. Velleius Paterculus, Book 2, Ch 110.
9. Cassius Dio, The Roman Histories, Book 55, ch 30.
10. Velleius Paterculus, Book 2, Ch 111.
11. Cassius Dio, The Roman Histories, Book 55, ch 25-30.
12. Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, Tiberius, ch 9 & ch 16.
13. Cassius Dio, The Roman Histories, Book 55, ch 28.
14. Cassius Dio, The Roman Histories, Book 55, ch 27.
15. Klingaman 1990.

Sources

• Klingaman, William K. (1990). The First Century: Emperors, Gods and Everyman. Harper-Collins. ISBN 978-0785822561.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)