0s BC

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Millennia:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century CE
Decades:	30s BC 20s BC 10s BC - 0s BC - 0s CE 10s CE 20s CE
Years:	9 BC 8 BC 7 BC 6 BC 5 BC 4 BC 3 BC 2 BC 1 BC
Categories:	Births - Deaths - State leaders - Sovereign states Establishments - Disestablishments

Because of the non-existence 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). For other calendar systems, see year zero.

AD 1 is the first year of the Anno Domini era and of the Common Era. In 525 (the consulship of Probus Junior [Flavius Probus]), a Christian monk named Dionysius Exiguus stated that the incarnation of Jesus occurred 525 years earlier.^[1] Whether Dionysius regarded "incarnation" as Jesus' birth or conception, and whether Dionysius placed it in 1 BC or AD 1 are debated by modern scholars. Nevertheless, these same scholars believe Jesus was actually born a few years earlier, during this decade.

[edit] Events and trends

• Mithradatkirt, the Parthian capital, is totally destroyed by an earthquake sometime in this decade.

[edit] Significant people

• Caesar Augustus, Roman Emperor (27 BC – AD 14)
• Jesus, central figure of Christianity (8-2 BC – AD 29-36)
• Arminius, German war chief

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