29 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century
Decades:	50s BC  40s BC  30s BC  – 20s BC –  10s BC  0s BC  0s
Years:	32 BC 31 BC 30 BC – 29 BC – 28 BC 27 BC 26 BC

29 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	29 BC
Ab urbe condita	725
Ancient Greek era	187th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4722
Bengali calendar	−621
Berber calendar	922
Buddhist calendar	516
Burmese calendar	−666
Byzantine calendar	5480–5481
Chinese calendar	辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 2668 or 2608     — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 2669 or 2609
Coptic calendar	−312 – −311
Discordian calendar	1138
Ethiopian calendar	−36 – −35
Hebrew calendar	3732–3733
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	28–29
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3073–3074
Holocene calendar	9972
Iranian calendar	650 BP – 649 BP
Islamic calendar	670 BH – 669 BH
Julian calendar	29 BC
Korean calendar	2305
Minguo calendar	1940 before ROC 民前1940年
Seleucid era	283/284 AG
Thai solar calendar	514–515

Year 29 BC was either a common year starting on Friday or Saturday or a leap year starting on Thursday, Friday or Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar (the sources differ, see leap year error for further information) and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Proleptic Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Octavian and Appuleius (or, less frequently, year 725 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 29 BC 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 Republic

• Octavian Caesar becomes Roman Consul for the fifth time. His partner is Sextus Appuleius. He is granted the title of imperator, and for the third time in Roman history the doors of the Temple of Janus are closed, signalling peace.
• Octavian celebrates in Rome three triumphs on consecutive days (August 13, August 14, and August 15) to commemorate his victories in Illyricum, Actium and Egypt.
• Marcus Licinius Crassus campaigns successfully in the Balkans, killing the king of the Bastarnae with his own hand, but is denied the right to dedicate the spolia opima by Octavian.
• Sofia, modern day capital of Bulgaria, is conquered by the Romans and becomes known as Ulpia Serdica.
• Start of the Cantabrian Wars against Roman occupation in Hispania.

By topic

Literature

• March 1 – Horace writes the ode Occidit Daci Cotisonis agmen.
• Composition of Aeneid by Virgil begins.

Births

Deaths

• Mariamme, executed wife of king Herod the Great (or 28 BC) (b. 48 BC)

References