5 BC

Year 5 BC was a common 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 Saturday of the Proleptic Julian calendar. In the Roman world, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Sulla (or, less frequently, year 749 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 5 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:
5 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar5 BC
IV BC
Ab urbe condita749
Ancient Greek era193rd Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar4746
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−597
Berber calendar946
Buddhist calendar540
Burmese calendar−642
Byzantine calendar5504–5505
Chinese calendar乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit)
2692 or 2632
     to 
丙辰年 (Fire Dragon)
2693 or 2633
Coptic calendar−288 – −287
Discordian calendar1162
Ethiopian calendar−12 – −11
Hebrew calendar3756–3757
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat52–53
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga3096–3097
Holocene calendar9996
Iranian calendar626 BP – 625 BP
Islamic calendar645 BH – 644 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendar5 BC
IV BC
Korean calendar2329
Minguo calendar1916 before ROC
民前1916年
Nanakshahi calendar−1472
Seleucid era307/308 AG
Thai solar calendar538–539
Tibetan calendar阴木兔年
(female Wood-Rabbit)
122 or −259 or −1031
     to 
阳火龙年
(male Fire-Dragon)
123 or −258 or −1030

Events

Births

  • January 15 Guang Wu, Chinese emperor of the Han Dynasty (d. AD 57)
  • Aemilia Lepida, Roman noblewoman and fiancee of Claudius (d. AD 43)
  • Lucius Vitellius the Elder, Roman consul and governor of Syria (d. AD 51)
  • The birthdates of John the Baptist and Jesus are not generally known, but 5 BC is often assumed to be the date. The spring Passover feast (often around April 21) has been cited as a possible date for the birth of Christ, assuming that this had relevance to being a Messiah claimant, or that his birthday might have been related to Passover. Others theologically tie his birth to Sukkot, the fall Feast of Tabernacles.

Deaths

  • Acme (enslaved woman), Jewish slave and personal maid in the service of the Empress Livia Drusilla, wife of Augustus
  • Curia, Roman noblewoman and wife of Quintus Lucretius Vespillo

References

  1. Matthews, Roberts (2011). Why Don't Spiders Stick to Their Webs. Oxford: Oneworld. p. 66. ISBN 978-1-85168-900-2.
  2. "When was Jesus Born?". Archived from the original on April 28, 2006. Retrieved June 3, 2006.
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