6

This page is about the year 6 AD. For the actual number, see six.

6 (VI) is a common year of the Julian calendar which started on a Friday. According to the Gregorian calendar, it started on a Sunday. It was the 6th year of the 1st century.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC – 1st century – 2nd century
Decades:	20s BC  10s BC  0s BC  – 0s –  10s  20s  30s
Years:	AD 3 AD 4 AD 5 – AD 6 – AD 7 AD 8 AD 9

AD 6 in other 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

Roman Empire

• Herod Archelaus, the ethnarch of Samaria, Judea, and Idumea is deposed and banished to vienne in Gaul.
• Iudaea and Moesia become Roman provinces; Syria is guarded by legions X Fretensis, III Gallica, VI Ferrata, and XII Fulminata.
• Augustus sets up a special treasury, the aerarium militare to pay bonuses to retiring legion veterans.
• Tiberius makes Carnuntum his base of operations against Maroboduus; The Roman legion XX Valeria Victrix fights with Tiberius against the Marcomanni.
• the Pannonians, with the Dalmatians and other Illyrian tribes, revolted, only to be overcome by Tiberius after a hard-fought three year long campaign.
• The building of a Roman fort starts the current city of Wiesbaden.
• Caecina Severus is made governor of Moesia.
• Publius Sulpicius Quirinius becomes Governor of Syria and nominally of Judea.
• Quirinius conducts a census in Judea (according to Josephus), which results in a revolt in the province, led by Judas the Galilean, and supported by the Pharisee Sadoq. The revolt is repressed, and the rebels are crucified, but it results in the birth of the Zealot movement, the members of which regard God as their only master.
• Due to a food shortage in Rome, Augustus doubles the corn rations distributed to the people.
• Due to a catastrophic fire in Rome, the barracks system is created to allow quicker response in the case of emergencies.
• Augustus banishes Agrippa Postumus, one of his adopted sons, to the island of Planasia.
• Marcus Aemilius Lepidus and Lucius Arruntius become Roman consuls.
• Theophilus becomes Archon of Athens. There are no further records of Archons until after 23.

Africa

• Juba II of Maurentia and Numidia marries Glaphyra, a princess from Cappadocia. The marriage is brief as Glaphyra falls for Herod Archelaus and moves to Judea (This union is partially responsible for Herod's ouster from Judea).
• Following the ousting of Orodes III, Vorones I is appointed by Rome as King of Parthia. Parthian grandees refuse to accept him as king. They invite Artabanus II, another member of the Arsacid house, to the throne, precipitating civil war.

Asia

• Accession of Ru Zi Ying of the Han Dynasty in China and start of Jushe era of the Chinese Han Dynasty.
• Candidates for political office in China must take civil-service examinations.
• the imperial Liu clan begins to 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

• The Introduction of the so-called Section 377 of the British Indian penal code (Law) October, in 1860 is enacted in British India respectively.

Births

• Jesus, usually considered the latest possible year of birth, based on the Quirinius census in that year
• Nero Caesar, son of Germanicus and Agrippina the elder (d. 30).
• Milonia Caesonia, Roman empress (d. 41).

Deaths

• February 3 – Ping, emperor of Han Dynasty (b. 9 BC)
• Cleopatra Selene (II), Egyptian ruler of Cyrenaica and Libya (b. 40 BC)
• Orodes III, briefly emperor of Parthia