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| Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century |
| Decades: | 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC – 30s BC – 20s BC 10s BC 0s BC |
| Years: | 40 BC 39 BC 38 BC – 37 BC – 36 BC 35 BC 34 BC |
| 37 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 37 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 717 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1880 – -1879 |
| Bengali calendar | -629 |
| Berber calendar | 914 |
| Buddhist calendar | 508 |
| Burmese calendar | -674 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5472 – 5473 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸未年 (2600/2660) — to —
甲申年(2601/2661) |
| Coptic calendar | -320 – -319 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -44 – -43 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3724 – 3725 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 19 – 20 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3065 – 3066 |
| Holocene calendar | 9964 |
| Iranian calendar | 658 BP – 657 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 678 BH – 677 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2297 |
| Thai solar calendar | 507 |
The Year of the Consulship of Agrippa and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 717 Ab urbe condita) was a leap year starting on Monday [link will display the full calendar] of the Julian calendar. Since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years, the year has been commonly known as 37 BC.
Events
By place
Rome
- Consuls: Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Titus Statilius Taurus.
- Agrippa created the harbour "Portus Julius" in the today submersed town of Puteoli (the modern Pozzuoli, close to Naples). The port is used to train the warships for naval battles, a new fleet is built, with 20,000 oarsmen gathered by freeing slaves. He also incorporated on quinqueremes a technical innovation the harpax ("snatcher"); a combination ballista and grappling hook, based on the corvus.
- Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian engineered the "Second Pact of Tarentum" which renewed the Triumvirate for an additional five years. Mark Antony exchanged 120 ships, for service against Sextus Pompeius. Octavian Caesar gives 1,000 troops from the Praetorian Guard and 20,000 legionaries for the Parthian campaign in Syria.
- Antony reorganized Asia Minor under strongmen loyal to him. He raised troops from his allies Amyntas and Archelaus, kings of Galatia and Cappadocia. The old kingdom of Pontus is restored, from Armenia to the River Halys under Polemon I.
- Romans conquer Jerusalem from the Parthians. Herod the Great becomes king of Judea and Ananelus is installed as High Priest, both positions seized from Antigonus II Mattathias after a five-month siege. Thousands of Jews slaughtered by Roman troops supporting Herod.
Asia
- The kingdom of Goguryeo in Korea is founded by the king Dongmyeong. (traditional date)
Births
Deaths
- Antigonus II Mattathias (Antigonus the Hasmonean) (executed by order of Mark Antony)
- Aristobulus II, king and high priest of Judea (66 BC – 63 BC), assassinated
- Empress Shangguan (b. 89 BC)
- Jing Fang (b. 78 BC), Chinese mathematician and music theorist
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