13

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC – 1st century – 2nd century
Decades:	10s BC  0s BC  0s  – 10s –  20s  30s  40s
Years:	10 11 12 – 13 – 14 15 16

13 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

13 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	13 XIII
Ab urbe condita	766
Assyrian calendar	4763
Bengali calendar	−580
Berber calendar	963
Buddhist calendar	557
Burmese calendar	−625
Byzantine calendar	5521–5522
Chinese calendar	壬申年 (Water Monkey) 2709 or 2649     — to — 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 2710 or 2650
Coptic calendar	−271 – −270
Discordian calendar	1179
Ethiopian calendar	5–6
Hebrew calendar	3773–3774
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	69–70
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3114–3115
Holocene calendar	10013
Iranian calendar	609 BP – 608 BP
Islamic calendar	628 BH – 627 BH
Julian calendar	13 XIII
Korean calendar	2346
Minguo calendar	1899 before ROC 民前1899年
Seleucid era	324/325 AG
Thai solar calendar	555–556

Year 13 (XIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silius and Plancus (or, less frequently, year 766 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 13 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.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Abgarus of Edessa is reinstalled as king of Osroene.
• The Senate passes a senatus consultum restricting the reduced Vigintisexviri to the Ordo Equester.
• Tiberius makes his triumphant procession through Rome after the siege of Germany.

Asia

• Last year (3rd) of Shijianguo era of the Chinese Xin Dynasty.
• Considered the lucky number of those from the Chinese Xin Dynasty.

By topic

Arts and sciences

• Strabo publishes his book on the shape of the Earth.
• Ovid publishes books 1-3 of his Epistulae ex Ponto.^[1]

Deaths

• Empress Wang Zhengjun (b. 71 BC)

References

1. Syme, History in Ovid, 40-42