2

Year 2 (II) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Following the death of Lucius Caesar, Livia Drusilla persuades Augustus to allow her son Tiberius back into Rome as a private citizen, after six years in enforced retirement on Rhodes.
• Gaius Caesar meets with Phraates V, the king of Parthia on the Euphrates. Rather than invade, Gaius Caesar concludes peace with the Parthians—Parthia recognizes Roman claims to Armenia.
• Publius Alfenus Varus and Publius Vinicius become Roman Consuls.

Europe

• Cedeides becomes Archon of Athens.
• Using Roman military support, Artavasdes III, son of Ariobarzanes II, king of Media Atropatene, becomes the king of Armenia (to 4).

Africa

• Juba II of Mauretania joins Gaius Caesar in Armenia as a military advisor. It is during this period that he meets Glaphyra, a Cappadocian princess and the former wife of Alexandros of Judea, a brother of Herod Archelaus, ethnarch of Judea, and falls for her.

Asia

• Wang Mang begins a program of personal aggrandizement, restoring marquess titles to past imperial princes and introducing a pension system for retired officials. Restrictions are placed on the Emperor's mother, Consort Wei and members of the Wei Clan.
• The first census is concluded in China after having begun the year before: final numbers show a population of nearly 60 million (59,594,978 people in slightly more than 12 million households). The census is one of the most accurate surveys in Chinese history.^[1]
• The Chinese census shows nearly one million people living in Vietnam.

Births

• Deng Yu, Han Dynasty general and statesman (d. 58)

Deaths

• Lucius Caesar, son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder, and heir to the throne (in Gaul) (b. 17 BC)

Notes and references

1. ^ Klingaman, William K., The First Century: Emperors, Gods and Everyman, 1990, p 56