37 BC

Year 37 BC was either a common year starting on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday or a leap year starting on Monday or Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar (the sources differ, see leap year error for further information) and a leap year starting on Monday of the Proleptic Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Agrippa and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 717 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 37 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
37 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar37 BC
XXXVI BC
Ab urbe condita717
Ancient Egypt eraXXXIII dynasty, 287
- PharaohCleopatra VII, 15
Ancient Greek era185th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar4714
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−629
Berber calendar914
Buddhist calendar508
Burmese calendar−674
Byzantine calendar5472–5473
Chinese calendar癸未年 (Water Goat)
2660 or 2600
     to 
甲申年 (Wood Monkey)
2661 or 2601
Coptic calendar−320 – −319
Discordian calendar1130
Ethiopian calendar−44 – −43
Hebrew calendar3724–3725
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat20–21
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga3064–3065
Holocene calendar9964
Iranian calendar658 BP – 657 BP
Islamic calendar678 BH – 677 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendar37 BC
XXXVI BC
Korean calendar2297
Minguo calendar1948 before ROC
民前1948年
Nanakshahi calendar−1504
Seleucid era275/276 AG
Thai solar calendar506–507
Tibetan calendar阴水羊年
(female Water-Goat)
90 or −291 or −1063
     to 
阳木猴年
(male Wood-Monkey)
91 or −290 or −1062

Events

Roman Republic

  • Consuls: Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Titus Statilius Taurus.
  • Agrippa creates the harbour "Portus Julius" in the today-submersed town of Puteoli (the modern Pozzuoli, close to Naples). The port is used to train the warships for naval battles, and a new fleet is built, with 20,000 oarsmen gathered by freeing slaves. He also incorporates, on quinqueremes, a technical innovation, called the harpax ("snatcher"): a combination ballista and grappling hook, based on the corvus.
  • Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian engineers the "Second Pact of Tarentum" which renews the Triumvirate for an additional five years. Mark Antony exchanges 120 ships, for service against Sextus Pompeius. Octavian Caesar donates 1,000 troops from the Praetorian Guard and 20,000 legionaries for the Parthian campaign in Syria.
  • Antony reorganizes Asia Minor under strongmen loyal to him. He raises troops from his allies: Amyntas and Archelaus, kings of Galatia and Cappadocia. The old kingdom of Pontus is restored, from Armenia to the River Halys under Polemon I.
  • Romans conquer Jerusalem from the Parthians. Herod the Great becomes king of Judea and Ananelus is installed as High Priest; both positions are seized from Antigonus II Mattathias after a five-month siege. Thousands of Jews are slaughtered by Roman troops supporting Herod.

Asia

  • The kingdom of Goguryeo in Korea is founded by the king Dongmyeong. (traditional date)[1]

Deaths

  • Antigonus II Mattathias (Antigonus the Hasmonean) (executed by order of Mark Antony)
  • Aristobulus II, king and high priest of Judea (6663 BC; assassinated)
  • Jing Fang, Chinese mathematician and music theorist (b. 78 BC)
  • Orodes II, king of the Parthian Empire (b. 95 BC)
  • Shangguan, Chinese empress of the Han Dynasty

References

  1. "List of Rulers of Korea". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.