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| 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: | 5 BC 4 BC 3 BC - 2 BC - 1 BC 1 AD 2 AD |
| 2 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 2 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 752 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1845 – -1844 |
| Berber calendar | 949 |
| Buddhist calendar | 543 |
| Burmese calendar | -639 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5507 – 5508 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊午年 (2635/2695) — to —
己未年(2636/2696) |
| Coptic calendar | -285 – -284 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -9 – -8 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3759 – 3760 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 54 – 55 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3100 – 3101 |
| Holocene calendar | 9999 |
| Iranian calendar | 623 BP – 622 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 642 BH – 641 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2332 |
| Thai solar calendar | 542 |
Year 2 BC was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Rome
- Julia the Elder, daughter of Augustus and Scribonia is exiled on charges of treason and adultery to Pandateria; her mother Scribonia accompanies her.
- Caesar Augustus was proclaimed Pater Patriae by the Roman Senate; this bestowed title was the logical consequence and final proof of Augustus' supreme position as princeps, the first in charge over the Roman state.1
Births
- Jesus, Jewish prophet and founder of Christianity (born in the month of Ethanim (Tishrei) (September–October)) (approximate date)citation needed
Deaths
- Iullus Antonius, son of Mark Antony and consul in 10 BC (executed for treason).
Notes
- ^ Eck, 3.
References
- Eck, Werner; translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider; new material by Sarolta A. Takács. (2003) The Age of Augustus. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing (hardcover, ISBN 0-631-22957-4; paperback, ISBN 0-631-22958-2).
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