| Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century |
| Decades: | 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC – 0s BC – 0s 10s 20s |
| Years: | 4 BC 3 BC 2 BC – 1 BC – 1 AD 2 AD 3 AD |
| 1 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 753 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1844 – -1843 |
| Berber calendar | 950 |
| Buddhist calendar | 544 |
| Burmese calendar | -638 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5508 – 5509 |
| Chinese calendar | 己未年 (2636/2696) — to —
庚申年(2637/2697) |
| Coptic calendar | -284 – -283 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -8 – -7 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3760 – 3761 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 55 – 56 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3101 – 3102 |
| Holocene calendar | 10000 |
| Iranian calendar | 622 BP – 621 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 641 BH – 640 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2333 |
| Thai solar calendar | 543 |
1 BC (or 1 BCE) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. It was preceded by 2 BC and followed by AD 1 (or 1 CE), since there was no year zero.
Events
By place
Rome
- Ovid writes the Ars Amatoria.
By topic
Religion
- Birth of Jesus, as assigned by Dionysius Exiguus in his anno Domini era according to most scholars.[1][2] However, at least one scholar thinks Dionysius placed the birth of Jesus in the next year, AD 1.[1][2] Most modern scholars do not consider Dionysius' calculations authoritative, placing the event several years earlier (see Chronology of Jesus).[3]
Births
Deaths
- Dong Xian, a Han Dynasty Chinese official under Emperor Ai of Han (b. 23 BC)
- Emperor Ai of Han (b. 27 BC)
- Empress Fu
- Empress Zhao Feiyan (b. 32 BC)
References
- ^ a b Georges Declercq, Anno Domini: The origins of the Christian Era (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2000), pp.143–147.
- ^ a b G. Declercq, "Dionysius Exiguus and the introduction of the Christian Era", Sacris Erudiri 41 (2002) 165–246, pp.242–246. Annotated version of a portion of Anno Domini.
- ^ James D. G. Dunn, Jesus Remembered, Eerdmans Publishing (2003), page 324.
See also
- Year zero for the different conventions that historians and astronomers use for "BC" years.
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