2 BC

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Millennium: 1st millennium BC
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2 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 2 BC
II BC
Ab urbe condita 752
Ancient Greek era 194th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar 4749
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −594
Berber calendar 949
Buddhist calendar 543
Burmese calendar −639
Byzantine calendar 5507–5508
Chinese calendar 戊午年 (Earth  Horse)
2696 or 2489
     to 
己未年 (Earth  Goat)
2697 or 2490
Coptic calendar −285 – −284
Discordian calendar 1165
Ethiopian calendar −9 – −8
Hebrew calendar 3759–3760
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 55–56
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 3099–3100
Holocene calendar 9999
Iranian calendar 623 BP – 622 BP
Islamic calendar 642 BH – 641 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar 2 BC
II BC
Korean calendar 2332
Minguo calendar 1913 before ROC
民前1913年
Nanakshahi calendar −1469
Seleucid era 310/311 AG
Thai solar calendar 541–542
Tibetan calendar 阳土马年
(male Earth-Horse)
125 or −256 or −1028
     to 
阴土羊年
(female Earth-Goat)
126 or −255 or −1027

Year 2 BC was a common year starting on Thursday or Friday (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 Wednesday of the Proleptic Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Silvanus (or, less frequently, year 752 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 2 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.

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