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

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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)

1 BC Media

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  Albrecht Altdorfer's painting the Adoration of the Magi (made ca. 1530) is one of several works of art concerning the Navity of Jesus. Though Jesus's exact birthdate is unknown (other than it would have occurred sometime during this decade)

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)