1 BC
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Ancient Olympiads' not found.
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 |
---|
Arts and science |
Countries |
|
Lists of leaders |
Birth and death categories |
Establishments and disestablishments categories |
Works category |
![]() |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 47: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).. |
Year 1 BC/BCE was a leap year starting on Thursday in the proleptic Julian calendar. Some sources list it as a common year starting on either Friday or Saturday. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Piso.
Events
- Emperor Augustus made a peace treaty with Phraates V
- Ovid writes the Ars Amatoria
- Ping of Han becomes Emperor of China
- December 25 - Birth of Jesus as given by Dionysius Exiguus
Births
- Ptolemy of Mauretania (d. AD 40)
- Jesus Christ (b. 6 April 1BC d. AD 33)
Deaths
1 BC Media
The birth of Jesus (pictured above) is widely regarded to have been placed by Dionysus Exiguus, inventor of the Anno Domini dating system, in 1 BC. Modern scholarship, however, regards the birth of Christ to have taken place between 6 and 4 BC.
- for more information, see Category:1 BC 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)