10 BC

Construction

Herod the Great [b. 73 bce, d. 4 bce] has the first large harbor constructed in the open sea to support his new town of Caesarea Palestinae (near present-day Haifa). The harbor is constructed of giant blocks of concrete poured into wooden forms. See also 100 ce Construction.

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Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century
Decades:	40s BC  30s BC  20s BC  – 10s BC –  0s BC  0s  10s
Years:	13 BC 12 BC 11 BC – 10 BC – 9 BC 8 BC 7 BC

10 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments v • d • e

10 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	10 BC
Ab urbe condita	744
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1853 – -1852
Berber calendar	941
Buddhist calendar	535
Burmese calendar	-647
Byzantine calendar	5499 – 5500
Chinese calendar	庚戌年 (2627/2687) — to — 辛亥年 (2628/2688)
Coptic calendar	-293 – -292
Ethiopian calendar	-17 – -16
Hebrew calendar	3751 – 3752
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	46 – 47
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3092 – 3093
Holocene calendar	9991
Iranian calendar	631 BP – 630 BP
Islamic calendar	650 BH – 649 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2324
Thai solar calendar	534
v • d • e

Year 10 BC was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

• An obelisk in Rome's Piazza Montecitorio is erected as a giant sundial gnomon.
• The Romans build a bridge across the Rhine near Bonn.
• A Roman military camp is established at Speyer.

Births

• August 1—Claudius, Roman emperor (d. AD 54)
• Agrippa I, king of Judea (d. AD 44)
• Marcus Verrius Flaccus, Roman grammarian (d. AD 20)
• Domitia Lepida, daughter of Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus and Antonia Major (d. AD 54)

Deaths

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