1 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century
Decades:	30s BC 20s BC 10s BC – 0s BC – 0s 10s 20s
Years:	4 BC 3 BC 2 BC – 1 BC – 1 AD 2 AD 3 AD

1 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

**1 BC in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1 BC
Ab urbe condita	753
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1844 – -1843
Bengali calendar	-593
Berber calendar	950
Buddhist calendar	544
Burmese calendar	-638
Byzantine calendar	5508 – 5509
Chinese calendar	己未年 (2636/2696) — to — 庚申年 (2637/2697)
Coptic calendar	-284 – -283
Ethiopian calendar	-8 – -7
Hebrew calendar	3760 – 3761
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	56 – 57
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3101 – 3102
Holocene calendar	10000
Iranian calendar	622 BP – 621 BP
Islamic calendar	641 BH – 640 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2333
Thai solar calendar	543

Year 1 BC was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. It was preceded by 2 BC and followed by AD 1 (or 1 CE), since there was no year zero.

Using the Holocene calendar, this is the year 10,000.

Events

By place

Rome

Emperor Augustus sent his stepson Gaius Caesar as army commander to the East and made a peace treaty with Phraates V on an island in the river Euphrates.
Ovid writes the Ars Amatoria.

China

Emperor Ai of Han dies and is succeeded by his cousin Ping of Han (1 BC – 6 AD), a boy of nine years old. Wang Mang is appointed regent by the Grand Empress Dowager Wang.

By topic

Religion

Incarnation of Jesus (conception on 25 March and birth on 25 December), as assigned by Dionysius Exiguus in his anno Domini era according to most scholars (Dionysius used the word "incarnation", but it is not known whether he meant conception or birth).^[1]^[2] However, at least one scholar thinks Dionysius placed the incarnation of Jesus in the next year, AD 1.^[1]^[2] Most modern scholars do not consider Dionysius' calculations authoritative, placing the event several years earlier (see Chronology of Jesus).^[3]

Births

Ptolemy of Mauretania (d. AD 40)

Deaths

Dong Xian, a Han Dynasty Chinese official under Emperor Ai of Han (b. 23 BC)
Emperor Ai of Han (b. 27 BC)
Empress Fu
Empress Zhao Feiyan (b. 32 BC)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Georges Declercq, Anno Domini: The origins of the Christian Era (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2000), pp.143–147.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 G. Declercq, "Dionysius Exiguus and the introduction of the Christian Era", Sacris Erudiri 41 (2002) 165–246, pp.242–246. Annotated version of a portion of Anno Domini.
↑ James D. G. Dunn, Jesus Remembered, Eerdmans Publishing (2003), page 324.