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Gregorian calendar AD 2
II
Ab urbe condita 755
Assyrian calendar 4752
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −591
Berber calendar 952
Buddhist calendar 546
Burmese calendar −636
Byzantine calendar 5510–5511
Chinese calendar 辛酉年 (Metal  Rooster)
2698 or 2638
    — to —
壬戌年 (Water  Dog)
2699 or 2639
Coptic calendar −282 – −281
Discordian calendar 1168
Ethiopian calendar −6 – −5
Hebrew calendar 3762–3763
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 58–59
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 3102–3103
Holocene calendar 10002
Iranian calendar 620 BP – 619 BP
Islamic calendar 639 BH – 638 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar AD 2
II
Korean calendar 2335
Minguo calendar 1910 before ROC
民前1910年
Nanakshahi calendar −1466
Seleucid era 313/314 AG
Thai solar calendar 544–545
Tibetan calendar 阴金鸡年
(female Iron-Rooster)
128 or −253 or −1025
    — to —
阳水狗年
(male Water-Dog)
129 or −252 or −1024

AD 2 (II) or 2 AD was a common year starting on Sunday or Monday (the link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar (sources differ, see leap year error for further information) and a common year starting on Sunday of the proleptic Julian calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Vinicius and Varus, named after Roman consuls Publius Vinicius and Alfenus Varus, and less frequently, as year 755 AUC ( ab urbe condita ) within the Roman Empire. The denomination "AD 2" 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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Africa

  • Juba II of Mauretania joins Gaius Caesar in Armenia as a military advisor. It is during this period that he meets Glaphyra, a Cappadocian princess and the former wife of Alexandros of Judea, a brother of Herod Archelaus, ethnarch of Judea, and becomes enamoured with her. [3]

China

  • Wang Mang begins a program of personal aggrandizement, restoring marquess titles to past imperial princes and introducing a pension system for retired officials. Restrictions are placed on the Emperor's mother, Consort Wei and members of the Wei Clan. [2]
  • The first census is concluded in China after having begun the year before: final numbers show a population of nearly 60 million (59,594,978 people in slightly more than 12 million households). The census is one of the most accurate surveys in Chinese history. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ "Cassius Dio - Book 55". penelope.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-12.
  2. 1 2 3 Klingaman, William K. (1991). The first century : emperors, gods and everyman. Internet Archive. London : Hamish Hamilton. ISBN   978-0-241-12887-9.
  3. ↑ Roller, Duane W (2003). The World of Juba II and Kleopatra Selene. New York: Routledge.
  4. ↑ Fan, Ye. Book of the Later Han. Vol. 16.
  5. ↑ Suetonius (2000). Lives of the Caesars. OUP Oxford. ISBN   978-0-19-953756-3.

Sources

  • Klingaman, William K. (1990). The First Century: Emperors, Gods and Everyman. Harper-Collins. ISBN   978-0785822561.
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