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AD 3 (III) or 3 AD was a
common year starting on Monday or
Tuesday (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 Monday of the
proleptic Julian calendar. In the
Roman Empire, it was the Year of the Consulship of
Lamia and
Servilius
The gens Servilia was a patrician family at ancient Rome. The gens was celebrated during the early ages of the Republic, and the names of few gentes appear more frequently at this period in the consular Fasti. It continued to produce men of inf ...
(or, less frequently, year 756 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination "AD 3" 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
* The rule of Emperor
Augustus is renewed for a ten-year period.
China
*
Wang Mang foils a plot by his son, Wang Yu, his brother-in-law, Ku Klux, and the Wei clan to oust him from the regent's position. Wang Yu and Ku Klux are killed in the purge that follows.
Births
*
Ban Biao, Chinese historian and official (d.
AD 54
AD 54 ( LIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Marcellus (or, less frequently, year 807 ''Ab urbe condita'' ...
)
*
Geng Yan, Chinese general of the
Han Dynasty (d.
AD 58
AD 58 ( LVIII) 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 Caesar and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 811 '' Ab urbe condita'') ...
)
*
Tiberius Claudius Balbilus, Roman politician and astrologer (d.
AD 79)
Deaths
*
Bao Xuan, Chinese politician of the Han Dynasty
See also
*
Ab urbe condita
''Ab urbe condita'' ( 'from the founding of the City'), or ''anno urbis conditae'' (; 'in the year since the city's founding'), abbreviated as AUC or AVC, expresses a date in years since 753 BC, the traditional founding of Rome. It is an exp ...
References
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