10s BC

10s BC: events by year

Contents: 19 BC 18 BC 17 BC 16 BC 15 BC 14 BC 13 BC 12 BC 11 BC 10 BC

19 BC

By place

Roman Empire

• In Rome, Lucius Cornelius Balbus receives the honor of a triumph on the Forum Romanum, for his victories over the Garamantes in Africa.
• Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa completes the Aqua Virgo; the aqueduct is 20 kilometers in length and supplies the city with about 100,000,000 liters of water every day.
• The Cantabrians, living on the northernmost coast of Spain, are brought under Roman control. The region is completely subdued until 16 BC.

18 BC

By place

Roman empire

• Caesar Augustus introduce the Lex Julia (Julian Laws):
  • Lex Iulia de Ambitu: Penalising bribery when acquiring political offices.
  • Lex Iulia de Maritandis Ordinibus: Limiting marriage across social class boundaries.

Asia

• Onjo becomes the first ruler of the Korean kingdom of Baekje (traditional date).

17 BC

By place

Roman Empire

• Under emperor Augustus, Rome celebrates the Secular games, for which Horace's hymn the Carmen Saeculare is commissioned.

16 BC

By place

Roman Empire

• Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus and Publius Cornelius Scipio are Roman consuls.
• Noricum is incorporated into the Roman Empire.
• Caesar Augustus reorganizes German provinces, makes Trier their capital.
• Roman legate Marcus Lollius is defeated by a Germanic horde.

15 BC

By place

Roman Empire

• Augsburg is founded as Augusta Vindelicorum, and becomes the capital of Rhaetia Prima.
• Chur (Switzerland) becomes the capital of the Roman province Rhaetia.
• Marcus Livius Drusus Libo and Lucius Calpurnius Piso are Roman Consuls.
• Nero Claudius Drusus decides to improve the passage through the Alps for military control to Noricum and Rhaetia (modern Austria). He builds the Via Claudia Augusta through Italy.
• Vienna becomes a frontier city (Vindobona) guarding the Roman Empire against the German tribes.
• Roman triremes on Lake Constance destroy fleet of the Vindelici during Rhaetia campaign.

14 BC

By place

Roman Empire

• The Roman general Nero Claudius Drusus fortifies Augusta Vangionum, the modern city of Worms, Germany.
• Caesar Augustus makes Beeroth (modern Beirut) a colonia, named Colonia Julia Augusta Felix Berytus.
• Winter – The Roman Legio X Fretensis is stationed in Syria, the legionaries are settled at the ancient city of Beirut.

13 BC

By place

Roman Empire

• Tiberius Claudius Nero and Publius Quinctilius Varus are Roman Consuls.
• The Roman general Nero Claudius Drusus builds the stronghold of castrum Monguntiacum, the modern city of Mainz, Germany.
• Drusus is granted governor of Gaul and mobilized a Roman army to beat the Germans back across the Rhine. He traveled to the North Sea and pays tribute to the Frisii.
• The Ara Pacis Augustae ("Altar of Augustan Peace"), is commissioned by the Roman Senate to honor the triumphal return of emperor Augustus from Hispania and Gaul.

12 BC

By place

Roman Empire

• Marcus Valerius Messalla Appianus and Publius Sulpicius Quirinius are Roman Consuls.
• Tiberius Claudius Nero summoned to Pannonia due to severe revolt by the Delmataeians.
• Roman armies based at Xanten, Cologne and Mainz campaign beyond the Rhine.
• First official mention of Argentoratum, the city now known as Strasbourg.
• Emperor Augustus is given the title Pontifex Maximus.

India

• King Azes II dies. The rule of the Indo-Scythians crumbles as the Kushans, one of the five tribes of the Yuezhi who lives in Bactria expand into India to create a Kushan Empire.

By topic

Astronomy

• Comet Halley makes an appearance.

11 BC

By place

Roman Empire

• Quintus Aelius Tubero and Paullus Fabius Maximus are Roman Consuls.
• Battle of the Lupia River: Roman forces under Augustus's stepson Nero Claudius Drusus win a victory in Germania.
• Drusus builds a wooden military camp Castellum Bonna near the Rhine, the Roman fortress is eventually rebuilt in stone.

10 BC

By place

Roman Empire

• Africanus Fabius Maximus and Iullus Antonius are Roman Consuls.
• The Obelisk of Montecitorio is brought from Egypt to Rome by emperor Augustus to be erected as a sundial gnomon of the Solarium Augusti, now in the Piazza Montecitorio.
• The Romans build a bridge across the Rhine near Bonn.
• A Roman military camp is established at Speyer.

Significant people

• Caesar Augustus, Roman Emperor (27 BC–AD 14)

Births

Deaths

• Virgil, Roman poet (70 BC–19 BC)

References