25 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century
Decades:	50s BC  40s BC  30s BC  – 20s BC –  10s BC  0s BC  0s
Years:	28 BC 27 BC 26 BC – 25 BC – 24 BC 23 BC 22 BC

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Year 25 BC was either a common year starting on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday or a leap year starting on Wednesday or Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Silanus.

Events

• Imperator Caesar Augustus becomes Consul for the ninth time. His partner is Marcus Junius Silanus.
• The temple to Neptune on the Circus Flaminius is built
• Estimation: Rome becomes the largest city of the world
• Galatia becomes a Roman province
• Government in China gives tributary states 20,000 rolls of silk cloth and about 20,000 pounds of silk floss.

Births

• Aulus Cornelius Celsus, author of De Medicina (d. c. AD 50)

Deaths

• King Amyntas