6 BC
Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
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Centuries: | 2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century |
Decades: | 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC – 0s BC – 0s 10s 20s |
Years: | 9 BC 8 BC 7 BC – 6 BC – 5 BC 4 BC 3 BC |
Gregorian calendar | 6 BC V BC |
Ab urbe condita | 748 |
Ancient Greek era | 193rd Olympiad, year 3 |
Assyrian calendar | 4745 |
Balinese saka calendar | N/A |
Bengali calendar | −598 |
Berber calendar | 945 |
Buddhist calendar | 539 |
Burmese calendar | −643 |
Byzantine calendar | 5503–5504 |
Chinese calendar | 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 2691 or 2631 — to — 乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 2692 or 2632 |
Coptic calendar | −289 – −288 |
Discordian calendar | 1161 |
Ethiopian calendar | −13 – −12 |
Hebrew calendar | 3755–3756 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 51–52 |
- Shaka Samvat | N/A |
- Kali Yuga | 3095–3096 |
Holocene calendar | 9995 |
Iranian calendar | 627 BP – 626 BP |
Islamic calendar | 646 BH – 645 BH |
Javanese calendar | N/A |
Julian calendar | 6 BC V BC |
Korean calendar | 2328 |
Minguo calendar | 1917 before ROC 民前1917年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −1473 |
Seleucid era | 306/307 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 537–538 |
Tibetan calendar | 阳木虎年 (male Wood-Tiger) 121 or −260 or −1032 — to — 阴木兔年 (female Wood-Rabbit) 122 or −259 or −1031 |
Year 6 BC was a common year starting on Sunday or Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Balbus and Vetus.
Events
[change | change source]- Caesar Augustus sends ferrets to the Balearic Islands to control rabbits
- Tiberius is sent to Armenia. He then retires to Rhodes.
Deaths
[change | change source]- Consort Ban, Chinese concubine of Emperor Cheng of Han, also a poet and scholar (b. 48 BC)
- Consort Feng Yuan (b. c. 48 BC)
- Liu Xiang, Chinese scholar (b. 77 BC)