36 BC

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Year 36 BC was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

• Consuls: Lucius Gellius Publicola and Marcus Cocceius Nerva.
• Publius Canidius Crassus invaded Armenia and Iberia (Georgia); he forced Parnavaz II into a alliance against Zober, king of Albania.
• June—Mark Antony launches a major offensive against the Parthians, he marches with 10 legions and 10,000 cavalry to Carana in Anatolia.
• July—Octavian's fleet (102 warships) embarked from Puteoli and tried to invade Sicily, it is caught in a storm and forced to return at Vibo.
• August—Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, a admiral of Octavian Caesar, secures the Lipari Islands and harass the coast from Mylae to Tyndaris. Octavian transport his legions via Leucopetra to Tauromenium (modern Taormina).
• Antony crosses the frontier into Media Atropatene and commences the siege of Phraaspa. He established a line of circumvallation and built siege engines.
• 3 September—Battle of Naulochus: Agrippa defeats Sextus Pompeius, a son of Pompeius, in a naval engagement off Naulochus. He escaped with 17 ships to Messana and then to Asia Minor.
• Marcus Lepidus lands 12 legions from Africa and lays siege to Lilybaeum. He lost his army to Octavian when his men mutinied, Lepidus is kept in luxurious captivity in Rome until his death.
• Agrippa received the unprecedented honor of a Naval Crown (corona navalis), wrought of gold and decorated with the prows of ships.
• October—Antony abandons the siege of Phraaspa; he loses many men to disease and starvation in the subsequent retreat to Egypt, marries Cleopatra VII and is still married to Octavia.
• Judea: Aristobulus III, the last of the Hasmoneans, becomes High Priest in Jerusalem, replacing Ananelus, who had only held the position for one year.

Asia

• October–December—the Han Dynasty Chinese army under General Chen Tang and General Gan Yanshou defeat the Xiongnu leader Zhizhi Chanyu in the Battle of Zhizhi. This led to half a century of peace between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu until Wang Mang enraged them in the year 10, resuming hostilities between both sides.

Births

• Ptolemy Philadelphus, son of Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Mark Antony (d. 29 BC)
• Vipsania Agrippina, daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Pomponia Caecilia Attica (d. AD 20)

Deaths

• Zhizhi Chanyu