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Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC – 1st century – 2nd century
Decades:	20s BC  10s BC  0s BC  – 0s –  10s  20s  30s
Years:	3 BC 2 BC 1 BC – 1 AD – 2 AD 3 AD 4 AD

1 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

1 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1 I
Ab urbe condita	754
Assyrian calendar	4751
Bengali calendar	−592
Berber calendar	951
Buddhist calendar	545
Burmese calendar	−637
Byzantine calendar	5509–5510
Chinese calendar	庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 2697 or 2637     — to — 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 2698 or 2638
Coptic calendar	−283 – −282
Discordian calendar	1167
Ethiopian calendar	−7 – −6
Hebrew calendar	3761–3762
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	57–58
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3102–3103
Holocene calendar	10001
Iranian calendar	621 BP – 620 BP
Islamic calendar	640 BH – 639 BH
Julian calendar	1 I
Korean calendar	2334
Minguo calendar	1911 before ROC 民前1911年
Seleucid era	312/313 AG
Thai solar calendar	543–544

The world in 1 AD

The eastern hemisphere in 1 AD

Germanic tribes in Europe in 1 AD

Year 1 (I) was a common year starting on Saturday or Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar (the sources differ, see leap year error for further information) and a common year starting on Saturday of the proleptic Julian calendar. It is a common year starting on Monday, in the proleptic Gregorian calendar system. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Paullus (or, less frequently, year 754 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 1 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. It was the first year of the Christian/Common era. The preceding year is 1 BC in the widely used Julian calendar, which does not have a "year zero". The Julian calendar also is probably the first calendar that was used frequently.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Tiberius, under order of Augustus, quells revolts in Germania (1–5).
• Gaius Caesar and Lucius Aemilius Paullus are appointed consuls.
• Gaius Caesar marries Livilla, daughter of Antonia Minor and Nero Claudius Drusus, in an effort to gain prestige.
• Quirinius becomes a chief advisor to Gaius in Armenia. Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, whose father Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus had served as consul in 16 BCE, also serves in the Armenia campaigns.
• Areius Paianeius becomes Archon of Athens.

Asia

• Confucius is given his first royal title (posthumous name) of Lord Baochengxun Ni.
• Sapadbizes, Yuezhi prince and King of Kush (Bactria), dies. Heraios succeeds him as king.

Africa

• The Kingdom of Aksum, centered in modern day Ethiopia and Eritrea, is founded (approximate date).
• Amanishakheto, Queen of Kush (Nubia), dies. Her son, Natakamani, becomes King of Kush.

Americas

• Moxos ceases to be a significant religious area in South America (approximate date).
• The Teotihuacan culture in Mesoamerica begins (approximate date).
• The Olmec 2 phase of the Olmec civilization begins; San Lorenzo and La Venta grow in population.

By topic

Arts and sciences

• The poem Metamorphoses is written by Ovid.

Religion

• Birth of Jesus, as assigned by Dionysius Exiguus in his anno Domini era according to at least one scholar.^[1][2] However, most scholars think Dionysius placed the birth of Jesus in the previous year, 1 BC.^[1][2] Furthermore, most modern scholars do not consider Dionysius' calculations authoritative, placing the event several years earlier (see Chronology of Jesus).^[3]

Births

• Lucius Annaeus Gallio, Roman proconsul (d. 65)
• Quinctilius Varus, son of Publius Quinctilius Varus and Claudia Pulchra (d. c. 27)

Deaths

• Arshak II of Iberia, king of Iberia of the Nimrodid Dynasty
• Sapadbizes, king of the Kushan Empire
• Amanishakheto, Queen of Kush

References

1. Declercq 2000.
2. Declercq 2002.
3. Dunn 2003.

Sources

• Declercq, Georges (2000). Anno Domini: The origins of the Christian Era. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols. pp. 143–147. ISBN 978-2503510507.

• Declercq, Georges (2002). "Dionysius Exiguus and the introduction of the Christian Era". Sacris Erudiri (Brussels: Brepols) 41: 165–246. doi:10.1484/J.SE.2.300491. ISSN 0771-7776. Annotated version of a portion of Anno Domini

• Dunn, James D. G. (2003). Jesus Remembered. Christianity in the Making 1. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 324. ISBN 978-0802839312.