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Year '7' was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

Events

By place

Roman Empire

Asia

Births

Deaths

Events

By place

Roman Empire

★ The Illyrians revolt against Roman rule.

★ Pannonians revolt with Dalmatians and Illyrian tribes against Roman rule.

★ Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus dismisses the Judean ethnarch Herod Archelaus.

★ Publius Quinctilius Varus is appointed governor of Germania.

★ Tiberius Quinctilius Varus, legate, is charged with organizing Germania between the Rhine and Elba rivers. He carries out a census, devises tributes and recruits soldiers, all of which create dissension among the Germanic tribes.

★ Abgarus of Edessa is deposed as king of Osroene.

★ Construction of the Temple of Concordia begins.

Asia

★ Vonones I of the Arsacid Dynasty becomes ruler of Parthia.

★ Zhai Yi, Governor of the Commandery of Dong (modern Puyang, Henan) declares Liu Zin, Marquess of Yang Xiang (modern Tai'an, Shandong emperor. This proves to be the largest of the rebellions against Emperor Ruzi of Han.

★ Wang Mang puts down the rebellion during the winter. Zhai is captured and executed while Liu Xin escapes.
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Births

★ Drusus Caesar, son of Germanicus and Agrippina the elder (d. 33).

★ Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, Roman General (d. 67).

Deaths

★ Athenodoros Cananites, Stoic philosopher (b. 74 BC)