# 13 BC

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Calendar year

Years Millennium 1st millennium BC Centuries 2nd century BC 1st century BC 1st century Decades 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC 0s BC 0s Years 16 BC 15 BC 14 BC 13 BC 12 BC 11 BC 10 BC v t e

13 BC by topic Politics State leaders Political entities Categories Births Deaths Establishments v t e

13 BC in various calendars Gregorian calendar 13 BC XIII BC Ab urbe condita 741 Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer) 191st Olympiad, year 4 Assyrian calendar 4738 Balinese saka calendar N/A Bengali calendar −606 – −605 Berber calendar 938 Buddhist calendar 532 Burmese calendar −650 Byzantine calendar 5496–5497 Chinese calendar 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 2685 or 2478 — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 2686 or 2479 Coptic calendar −296 – −295 Discordian calendar 1154 Ethiopian calendar −20 – −19 Hebrew calendar 3748–3749 Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat 44–45 - Shaka Samvat N/A - Kali Yuga 3088–3089 Holocene calendar 9988 Iranian calendar 634 BP – 633 BP Islamic calendar 654 BH – 652 BH Javanese calendar N/A Julian calendar 13 BC XIII BC Korean calendar 2321 Minguo calendar 1924 before ROC 民前1924年 Nanakshahi calendar −1480 Seleucid era 299/300 AG Thai solar calendar 530–531 Tibetan calendar མེ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Fire-Sheep) 114 or −267 or −1039 — to — ས་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Earth-Monkey) 115 or −266 or −1038

Year **13 BC** was either a [common year starting on Friday](/source/Common_year_starting_on_Friday), [Saturday](/source/Common_year_starting_on_Saturday) or [Sunday](/source/Common_year_starting_on_Sunday) or a [leap year starting on Friday](/source/Leap_year_starting_on_Friday) or [Saturday](/source/Leap_year_starting_on_Saturday) of the [Julian calendar](/source/Julian_calendar) (the sources differ, see [leap year error](/source/Julian_calendar#Leap_year_error) for further information) and a [leap year starting on Wednesday](/source/Leap_year_starting_on_Wednesday) of the [Proleptic Julian calendar](/source/Proleptic_Julian_calendar). At the time, it was known as the **Year of the Consulship of Nero and Varus** (or, less frequently, **year 741 *[Ab urbe condita](/source/Ab_urbe_condita)***). The denomination 13 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [Anno Domini](/source/Anno_Domini) [calendar era](/source/Calendar_era) became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

## Events

### By place

#### Roman Empire

- [Tiberius Claudius Nero](/source/Tiberius) and [Publius Quinctilius Varus](/source/Publius_Quinctilius_Varus) are [Roman Consuls](/source/Roman_Consul).

- The Roman general [Nero Claudius Drusus](/source/Nero_Claudius_Drusus) [builds](/source/Construction) the [stronghold](/source/Fortification) of [castrum](/source/Castrum) Moguntiacum in the location of the modern-day city of [Mainz](/source/Mainz), [Germany](/source/Germany).

- Drusus is granted governor of [Gaul](/source/Gaul) and mobilises a [Roman army](/source/Roman_legion) to beat the [Germans](/source/Germanic_peoples) back across the [Rhine](/source/Rhine). He travels to the [North Sea](/source/North_Sea) and pays [tribute](/source/Tribute) to the [Frisii](/source/Frisii).

- The [Ara Pacis Augustae](/source/Ara_Pacis_Augustae) ("Altar of Augustan Peace") is commissioned by the [Roman Senate](/source/Roman_Senate) to honor the [triumphal](/source/Roman_triumph) return of Emperor [Augustus](/source/Augustus) from [Hispania](/source/Hispania) and Gaul.

- Revolt in [Thrace](/source/Thrace) against Roman rule led by [Vologases](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vologases_(chief)&action=edit&redlink=1).

## Births

- [Artaxias III](/source/Artaxias_III), Roman client king of [Armenia](/source/Kingdom_of_Armenia_(antiquity)) (d. [AD 34](/source/AD_34))

- [Livilla](/source/Livilla), daughter of [Nero Claudius Drusus](/source/Nero_Claudius_Drusus) and [Antonia Minor](/source/Antonia_Minor) (d. [AD 31](/source/AD_31))[1]

## Deaths

- [Marcus Aemilius Lepidus](/source/Marcus_Aemilius_Lepidus_(triumvir)), Roman consul (b. c. [90 BC](/source/90_BC))

- [Paullus Aemilius Lepidus](/source/Paullus_Aemilius_Lepidus), Roman consul (b. c. [77 BC](/source/77_BC))

- [Rhescuporis II](/source/Rhescuporis_II_(Astaean)), king of the [Odrysian Kingdom](/source/Odrysian_kingdom)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Vagi, David (2016). [*Coinage and History of the Roman Empire*](https://books.google.com/books?id=dIEYDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT107). Routledge. p. 107. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-135-97125-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-135-97125-0).

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