6

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

6 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

**6 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	6 VI
Ab urbe condita	759
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1838 – -1837
Bengali calendar	-587
Berber calendar	956
Buddhist calendar	550
Burmese calendar	-632
Byzantine calendar	5514 – 5515
Chinese calendar	乙丑年十一月十三日 (2642/2702-11-13) — to — 丙寅年十一月廿三日 (2643/2703-11-23)
Coptic calendar	-278 – -277
Ethiopian calendar	-2 – -1
Hebrew calendar	3766 – 3767
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	62 – 63
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3107 – 3108
Holocene calendar	10006
Iranian calendar	616 BP – 615 BP
Islamic calendar	635 BH – 634 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2339
Thai solar calendar	549

Year 6 (VI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

Herod Archelaus, ethnarch of Samaria, Judea, and Idumea, is deposed and banished to Vienne in Gaul.
Iudaea and Moesia become Roman provinces destroying the Dardani; Syria is guarded by legions X Fretensis, III Gallica, VI Ferrata, and XII Fulminata.
Emperor Augustus sets up a special treasury, the aerarium militare (170 million sestertii), 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 Illyrian tribes in Dalmatia and Pannonia revolts, they only be overcome by Tiberius after a hard-fought three year long campaign.
The building of a Roman fort signifies the origin of the 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 Zadok. 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.

China

January — Some Chinese fear for the life of the young, ailing Emperor Ping Di as the planet Mars disappears behind the moon this month.^[1]
February 3 — the boy emperor, Ping Di dies of unexpected causes at age 14; Wang Mang alone selects the new emperor, the Ruzi Ying, age 2,^[1] starting the Jushe era of the Han Dynasty.
Candidates for government office must take civil-service examinations.
The imperial Liu clan 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 (a/k/a Marquis of An-chung), with a small force starting in^[1] May or June.

Births

Jesus, usually considered the latest possible year of birth, based on the Quirinius census in that year (historicity questionable).
Nero Caesar, son of Germanicus and Agrippina the elder (d. 68).
Milonia Caesonia, Roman empress (d. 41).

Deaths

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

Notes and references

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Klingaman, William K., The First Century: Emperors, Gods and Everyman, 1990, p 66