1 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century
Decades:	30s BC  20s BC  10s BC  - 0s BC -  0s  10s  20s
Years:	4 BC 3 BC 2 BC - 1 BC - 1 AD 2 AD 3 AD

1 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments v • d • e

1 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1 BC
Ab urbe condita	753
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1844 – -1843
Berber calendar	950
Buddhist calendar	544
Burmese calendar	-638
Byzantine calendar	5508 – 5509
Chinese calendar	己未年 (2636/2696) — to — 庚申年 (2637/2697)
Coptic calendar	-284 – -283
Ethiopian calendar	-8 – -7
Hebrew calendar	3760 – 3761
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	55 – 56
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3101 – 3102
Holocene calendar	10000
Iranian calendar	622 BP – 621 BP
Islamic calendar	641 BH – 640 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2333
Thai solar calendar	543
v • d • e

1 BC (or 1 BCE) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. It was preceded by 2 BC and followed by AD 1 (or 1 CE), since there was no year zero.

Events

By Place

Rome

• Ovid writes the Ars Amatoria.

By Topic

Religion

• Birth of Jesus, as assigned by Dionysius Exiguus in his anno Domini era according to most scholars.^[1][2] However, at least one scholar thinks Dionysius placed the birth of Jesus in the next year, AD 1.^[1][2] Most modern scholars do not consider Dionysius' calculations authoritative, placing the event several years earlier (see Chronology of Jesus).^[3]

Births

• Ptolemy of Mauretania (d. AD 40)

Deaths

• Dong Xian, a Han Dynasty Chinese official under Emperor Ai of Han (b. 23 BC)
• Emperor Ai of Han (b. 27 BC)
• Empress Fu
• Empress Zhao Feiyan (b. 32 BC)

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Georges Declercq, Anno Domini: The origins of the Christian Era (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2000), pp.143–147.
2. ^ ^{a b} G. Declercq, "Dionysius Exiguus and the introduction of the Christian Era", Sacris Erudiri 41 (2002) 165–246, pp.242–246. Annotated version of a portion of Anno Domini.
3. ^ James D. G. Dunn, Jesus Remembered, Eerdmans Publishing (2003), page 324.

See also

• Year zero for the different conventions that historians and astronomers use for "BC" years.

stock | retire
Why are we here?
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
This page is cache of Wikipedia. History