5 BC

5 BC was a common year starting on Monday or Tuesday of the Julian calendar (the sources differ, see leap year error for further information) and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Proleptic Julian calendar. In the Roman world, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Sulla (or, less frequently, year 749 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 5 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.

5 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	5 BC V BC
Ab urbe condita	749
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer)	193rd Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4746
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−598 – −597
Berber calendar	946
Buddhist calendar	540
Burmese calendar	−642
Byzantine calendar	5504–5505
Chinese calendar	乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 2693 or 2486     — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 2694 or 2487
Coptic calendar	−288 – −287
Discordian calendar	1162
Ethiopian calendar	−12 – −11
Hebrew calendar	3756–3757
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	52–53
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3096–3097
Holocene calendar	9996
Iranian calendar	626 BP – 625 BP
Islamic calendar	645 BH – 644 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	5 BC V BC
Korean calendar	2329
Minguo calendar	1916 before ROC 民前1916年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1472
Seleucid era	307/308 AG
Thai solar calendar	538–539
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Wood-Hare) 122 or −259 or −1031     — to — མེ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Fire-Dragon) 123 or −258 or −1030

Events

• March – Probable nova in the constellation Aquila.^[1]
• c. December – Probable supernova in the constellation Capricornus.^[1]

Births

• January 15 – Guang Wu, Chinese emperor of the Han Dynasty (d. AD 57)
• Aemilia Lepida, Roman noblewoman and fiancée of Claudius (d. AD 43)
• Domitia Lepida, daughter of Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus and Antonia Major (d. AD 54)
• Lucius Vitellius the Elder, Roman consul and governor of Syria (d. AD 51)
• The birthdates of John the Baptist and Jesus are not generally known, but 5 BC is often assumed to be the date. The spring Passover feast (often around April 21) has been cited as a possible date for the birth of Christ, assuming that this had relevance to being a Messiah claimant, or that his birthday might have been related to Passover. Others theologically tie his birth to Sukkot, the fall Feast of Tabernacles.
  • John the Baptist (d. c. AD 30)
  • Biblically between 16 September - 23 September – Jesus (Sukkot - The Feast of Tabernacles)
  • as of a Church decision in 336AD 25 December – Jesus^[2]

Deaths

• Acme (enslaved woman), Jewish slave and personal maid in the service of the Empress Livia Drusilla, wife of Augustus
• Curia, Roman noblewoman and wife of Quintus Lucretius Vespillo