AD 46 (

XLVI 46 (forty-six) is the natural number following 45 and preceding 47. In mathematics Forty-six is * a Wedderburn-Etherington number, * an enneagonal number * a centered triangular number. * the number of parallelogram polyominoes with 6 c ...

) was a

common year starting on Saturday A common year starting on Saturday is any non- leap year (i.e. a year with 365 days) that begins on Saturday, 1 January, and ends on Saturday, 31 December. Its dominical letter hence is B. The current year, 2022, is a common year starting on Sat ...

of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Asiaticus and Silanus (or, less frequently, year 799 ''

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 ...

''). The denomination AD 46 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the

Anno Domini The terms (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used to label or number years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. The term is Medieval Latin and means 'in the year of the Lord', but is often presented using "our Lord" instead of "the Lord", ...

calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

* The settlement at

Celje ) , pushpin_map = Slovenia , pushpin_label_position = left , pushpin_map_caption = Location of the city of Celje in Slovenia , coordinates = , subdivision_type = Cou ...

gets municipal rights, and is named ''municipium Claudia Celeia''. * Dobruja is annexed into Roman

Moesia Moesia (; Latin: ''Moesia''; el, Μοισία, Moisía) was an ancient region and later Roman province situated in the Balkans south of the Danube River, which included most of the territory of modern eastern Serbia, Kosovo, north-eastern Alban ...

. * A

census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses in ...

shows that there are more than 6,000,000 Roman citizens. * After the death of its king, Thracia becomes a Roman province. * Rome and its northeast border are reunited by the Danube Road. * According to

Orosius Paulus Orosius (; born 375/385 – 420 AD), less often Paul Orosius in English, was a Roman priest, historian and theologian, and a student of Augustine of Hippo. It is possible that he was born in '' Bracara Augusta'' (now Braga, Portugal), t ...

, there is a serious famine in

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

Central Asia

* A drought and an invasion of locusts hit the Mongolian steppes, causing a famine and a revolt at

Xiongnu The Xiongnu (, ) were a tribal confederation of nomadic peoples who, according to ancient Chinese sources, inhabited the eastern Eurasian Steppe from the 3rd century BC to the late 1st century AD. Modu Chanyu, the supreme leader after 209 ...

Births

* Plutarch, Greek historian and biographer (approximate date)

Deaths

* Marcus Vinicius, Roman consul and governor (b. c.

5 BC __NOTOC__ Year 5 BC 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 leap year starting on Saturday of the Prolep ...

) * Rhoemetalces III, Roman client king of Thrace (murdered) *

Servius Asinius Celer Servius Asinius Celer (died AD 46) was a Roman senator active during the Principate. He was suffect consul in the second half of the year 38 with Sextus Nonius Quinctilianus as his colleague. Celer was the son of Gaius Asinius Gallus, consul in ...

, Roman politician (executed)

References

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