1 BC was the last BC year. 1 BC - Events. Year zero for the different conventions that historians and astronomers use for "BC" years. 1 BC - Births. December 25 (traditional date) - Jesus (died about 33) — as assigned by Dionysius Exiguus in his anno Domini era according to most scholars. However, one scholar thinks Dionysius placed the birth of Jesus in year AD 1. These scholars do not themselves place the birth of Jesus in either year. ...

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Antiochus II Theos (286–246 BC), was an emperor of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire who reigned 261–246 BC). He succeeded his father Antiochus I Soter in 261 BC. He was the son of Antiochus I and princess Stratonice, the daughter of Demetrius Poliorcetes He inherited a state of war with Egypt, which was fought along the coasts of Asia Minor (the "Second Syrian War"). Antiochus also made some attempt to get a footing in Thrace. During the war he was given the title "Theos" which means "God" in Greek, bei ...

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Anno Domini Nostri Iesu Christi ("In the Year of Our Lord Jesus Christ"), commonly shortened to Anno Domini ("In the Year of the Lord"), abbreviated as AD or A.D., is the designation used to number years in the Christian Era, conventionally used with the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It defines an epoch based on the traditionally-reckoned year of the birth of Jesus. Years before the epoch used to be denoted a.C.n. (for Ante Christum Natum, "before the birth of Christ"), althoug ...

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Wang Mang (王莽, pinyin: Wáng Măng) (45 BC–October 6, 23), courtesy name Jujun (巨君), was a Han Dynasty official who seized the throne from the Liu family and founded Xin (or Hsin) Dynasty (新朝, meaning "new dynasty"), ruling AD 8–23. The Han dynasty was restored after his overthrow, and historians have traditionally viewed Wang as a "usurper," while some others have portrayed him as a visionary and selfless social reformer. Though a learned Confucian scholar who sought to implement the harmonious society he ...

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• Wang Mang - Early reign: mistakes
• Wang Mang - Economic policies
• Wang Mang - Deterioration of the relationship with Xiongnu and other vassals
• Wang Mang - Paralysis and corruption of the government
• Wang Mang - Middle reign: agrarian rebellions
• Wang Mang - Late reign: hopelessness
• Wang Mang - Reasons for Wang Mang's failure
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A board game is any game played on a board (that is, a premarked surface) with counters or pieces that are moved across the board. Simple board games are often seen as ideal "family entertainment" as they can provide entertainment for all ages. Some board games, such as chess or Go, have intense strategic value and have become lasting classics. There are many different types and classifications of board games. Some games are simplified simulations of real life. These are popular for they can intermingle make-believe and role pl ...

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(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium) The 1st century BC starts on January 1, 100 BC and ends on December 31, 1 BC. An alternative name for this century is the last century BC. This AD/BC notation does not use a year zero. Scientific notation does, however, and uses a minus sign, so '2 BC' is equal to 'year -1'. 1st century BC - Events. The Roman Republic becomes the Roman Empire Birth of Jesus of Nazareth See: Chronology of Jesus' birth and deat ...

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The Xin Dynasty (新朝, meaning New Dynasty) (8-23) was a "dynasty" (even though, contrary to the usual meaning of a dynasty, it had but one emperor) in Chinese history. It followed the Western Han Dynasty and preceded the Eastern Han Dynasty. The Xin Dynasty's sole emperor, Wang Mang(王莽), was the nephew of Grand Empress Dowager Wang Zhengjun, and he became powerful after the death of her step-grandson, Emperor Ai in 1 BC. After several years of cultivating a personality cult, he finally took over as emperor in 8 AD ...

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Astronomical year numbering is based on AD/BC / CE/BCE year numbering, but follows normal decimal integer numbering more strictly. Thus, it has a year 0 and the years before that are designated with a minus sign '−'. The era designations BC/AD are dropped. So the year 1 BC(E) is numbered 0, the year 2 BC(E) is numbered −1, and in general the year n BC(E) is numbered (1−n). The numbers of AD/CE years are not changed, but AD/CE is not used, being replaced by either no sign or a positive sign. For normal calculation a ...

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Herod I, also known as Herod the Great, was a Roman client-king of Judaea (c. 74 BC - March 4 BC in Jerusalem). The details of his biography can best be gleaned from the works of the 1st century AD Jewish historiographer Josephus. To the majority of non-specialist Christians Herod is best known from the Gospel according to Matthew that gives in chapter 2 an account of the events leading up to and including what subsequently has come to be referred to by Christians as the Massacre of the Innocents, of which however no mention in other ...

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• Herod the Great - Marriages and Children
• Herod the Great - Herod's family trees
• Herod the Great - Achievements
• Herod the Great - Herod in the New Testament
• Herod the Great - After Herod's death

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1 - Births. Jesus, according to the anno Domini era created by Dionysius Exiguus in 525 as argued by one scholar, Georges Declercq, in Anno Domini (2000). Most scholars argue that Dionysius placed the birth of Jesus in 1 BC. 1 - Deaths. Zhao Feiyan, empress of Emperor Cheng of Han, forced to commit suicide (b. unknown) 1 - World Leaders. Areius Paianieus becomes Archon of Athens (AD 1-2) Caesar ...

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Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC - 0s BC - 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s Years: 9 BC 8 BC 7 BC 6 BC 5 BC 4 BC 3 BC 2 BC 1 BC Because of the nonexistence of the "year 0", this "decade" and its successor have only nine years each. (Year 0 does not exist in either the proleptic Gregorian calendar or Julian calendar) 0s BC - Events and trends. circa 4 BC - Jesus is born in Bethlehem. 0 ...

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Little is known of Aulus Plautius's early career. An inscription reveals he was involved in the suppression of a slave revolt in Apulia, probably in 24, alongside Marcus Aelius Celer.[1] He was suffect consul for the second half of 29, and held a provincial governorship, probably of Pannonia, in the early years of Claudius's reign: another inscription shows he oversaw the building of a road ...

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AD 1 C. Iulius Caesar, L. Aemilius Paullus 2 P. Vinicius, P. Alfenus Varus 3 L. Aelius Lamia, M. Servilius 4 Sex. Aelius Catus, C. Sentius Saturninus 5 L. Valerius Messalla Volesus, Cn. Cornelius Cinna Magnus suff. C. Ateius Capito) 6 M. Aemilius Lepidus, L. Arruntius 7 Q. Caecilius Metellus Creticus Silanus, A. Licinius Nerva Silianus 8 M. Furius Camillus, Sex. Nonius Quinctilianus suff. L. ...

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List of early imperial Roman consuls, List of early imperial Roman consuls - 1st century BC, List of early imperial Roman consuls - 1st century, List of early imperial Roman consuls - 2nd century

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Feng Yuan became a consort to Emperor Yuan in 47 BC, the second year of his reign. She quickly became a favorite of his, along with Consort Fu. She bore him a son, Liu Xing (劉興), who was later created the Prince of Xindu in 37 BC. While both Consorts Fu and Feng were imperial consorts, an incident occurred that would cause Consort Feng to be greatly praised, at Consort Fu's embarrassment. In 38 BC, Emperor Yuan was watching a fight between wild animals, accompanied by a number of his concubines (but apparently not by Empress Wang ...

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Consort Feng Yuan, Consort Feng Yuan - Family background, Consort Feng Yuan - As imperial consort, Consort Feng Yuan - As princess dowager, Consort Feng Yuan - Death

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Emperor Cheng was a womanizer with many favorites. His first favorite was Empress Xu (created 31 BC), from the clan of his murdered grandmother, the first wife of Emperor Xuan, and he also favored Consort Ban. Neither Empress Xu nor Consort Ban bore him a child, however, and concerned with having a grandson to be heir, Empress Dowager Wang openly encouraged Emperor Cheng to take on more and more concubines, but that did not result in the birth of an heir. Circa 19 BC, however, when Emperor Cheng was visiting Princess Yanga (陽阿公主), he ...

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Then-Liu Jizi was born in 9 BC. His father Liu Xing (劉興) was the youngest son of Emperor Yuan and the younger brother of Emperor Cheng. His mother was one of Prince Xing's consorts, Consort Wei (衛姬). Prince Jizi had three sisters (whose names are not recorded in history) but no brother. He was born with a heart ailment, which, when affliciting him, causes him to have circulation problems, manifesting itself outwardly as having his lips and appendages turn blue. He was raised by his paternal grandmother Consort Feng Yuan, a concubine of ...

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Emperor Ping of Han, Emperor Ping of Han - Family background and life as imperial prince, Emperor Ping of Han - Early reign and Wang Mang's aggrandization of power, Emperor Ping of Han - The Lü Kuan Incident and Wang Mang's seizure of absolute power, Emperor Ping of Han - Death, Emperor Ping of Han - Era name, Emperor Ping of Han - Personal information

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For the ancient Olympics, the Olympiad was a period of four years starting with the games at Olympia. By modern reckoning, the first recorded Olympiad started in the year 776 BC. Olympiad - Historians. As from 776 BC Olympic Games were presumably held without fail, Greek historians used the Olympiads as a way of reckoning time that did not depend on the time reckonings of one of the city-states. (See Attic calendar.) The first to do so consistently was Timaeus of Tauromenium. Nevertheless, since for ...

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Olympiad, Olympiad - Ancient Olympics, Olympiad - Historians, Olympiad - Start of the Olympiad, Olympiad - Era, Olympiad - Examples, Olympiad - Anolympiad, Olympiad - Modern Olympics, Olympiad - Start and End, Olympiad - Quadrennium, Olympiad - Cultural Olympiad, Olympiad - Other uses

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Anno Domini dating was not the initial choice of Christians in the Mediterranean world; it was not adopted in Western Europe until after the end of the Western Roman Empire, traditionally dated as September 4, 476. Like the other inhabitants of the Roman Empire, early Christians used one of several methods to indicate a specific year — and it was not uncommon for more than one to be used in the same document. This redundancy allows historians to construct parallel regnal lists for many kingdoms and polities by comparing chronicles from different regions, which include the same rulers. ...

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Anno Domini, Anno Domini - Numbering of years, Anno Domini - Earlier calendar epochs, Anno Domini - Consular dating, Anno Domini - Dating from the founding of Rome, Anno Domini - Regnal years of Roman emperors, Anno Domini - Indiction cycles, Anno Domini - Other dating systems, Anno Domini - History of Anno Domini, Anno Domini - Accuracy, Anno Domini - Popularization, Anno Domini - Alternative methods in the modern era

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Tiberius Claudius Nero was born on 16 November 42 BC to Tiberius Nero and Livia Drusilla. From his birth in a noble family¹, Tiberius was destined for public life. But during his boyhood the old Roman Republican system of rule by Senate and magistrates, which had been tottering for decades, was finally toppled and replaced by an autocracy under the able and ambitious Octavian (later known as Augustus). It proved fateful for Tiberius when, in 39 BC at age three, his mother divorced his father Tiberius Nero and married Octavian, thereby making the infant Tiberius the stepson o ...

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Tiberius, Tiberius - Early Life, Tiberius - Heir to Augustus, Tiberius - Early Reign, Tiberius - Tiberius and Sejanus, Tiberius - Final Years, Tiberius - Continuing legacy, Tiberius - Footnotes

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The Julio-Claudian dynasty was composed of the Iulii Caesares and the Claudii Nerones, two distinguished patrician families in the waning days of the old Republic. The Iulii Caesares rose to absolute power in the Roman state in the person of the paterfamilias, Julius Caesar himself; upon his murder in 44 BC, the majority of his estate passed to his posthumously adopted son, Octavian, the grandson of Caesar's sister Julia. Octavian emerged from a series of civil wars as the sole master of the Roman world, and in January 27 BC was appoi ...

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Roman Emperor Principate, Roman Emperor Principate - Julio-Claudian Dynasty, Roman Emperor Principate - Julio-Claudian Emperors, Roman Emperor Principate - Dynastic Relationships, Roman Emperor Principate - Year of the Four Emperors, Roman Emperor Principate - Flavian Dynasty, Roman Emperor Principate - Flavian Emperors, Roman Emperor Principate - Dynastic Relationships, Roman Emperor Principate - Nervan-Antonine Dynasty, Roman Emperor Principate - Nervan-Antonine Emperors, Roman Emperor Principate - Dynastic Relationships, Roman Emperor Principate - From Domitian to Severus, Roman Emperor Principate - Severan Dynasty, Roman Emperor Principate - Dynastic Relationships, Roman Emperor Principate - Macrinus and Diadumenianus, Roman Emperor Principate - Severan Dynasty Restored, Roman Emperor Principate - Dynastic Relationships

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