AD 34

AD 34 (XXXIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Persicus and Vitellius (or, less frequently, year 787 Ab urbe condita). The denomination AD 34 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.

AD 34 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	AD 34 XXXIV
Ab urbe condita	787
Assyrian calendar	4784
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−560 – −559
Berber calendar	984
Buddhist calendar	578
Burmese calendar	−604
Byzantine calendar	5542–5543
Chinese calendar	癸巳年 (Water Snake) 2731 or 2524     — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 2732 or 2525
Coptic calendar	−250 – −249
Discordian calendar	1200
Ethiopian calendar	26–27
Hebrew calendar	3794–3795
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	90–91
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3134–3135
Holocene calendar	10034
Iranian calendar	588 BP – 587 BP
Islamic calendar	606 BH – 605 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	AD 34 XXXIV
Korean calendar	2367
Minguo calendar	1878 before ROC 民前1878年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1434
Seleucid era	345/346 AG
Thai solar calendar	576–577
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Water-Snake) 160 or −221 or −993     — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Horse) 161 or −220 or −992

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• The Roman aqueduct Pont du Gard is constructed, running for 50 km, ending at Nîmes (approximate date).
• Naevius Sutorius Macro gains favour in the Roman Empire by prostituting his wife Ennia Thrasylla to Caligula.
• Rome intervenes in Armenia (AD 34–37).

Europe

• The original inhabitants of Dacia revolt against the Sarmatian tribe of Iazyges, who had enslaved them.

By topic

Religion

• Stephen, one of the original seven deacons of the Christian Church, is martyred for his faith (possible date).
• Saul of Tarsus, on the road to Damascus, is converted to Christianity, and becomes Paul the Apostle (possible date).
• According to one dating scheme, Paul and Barnabas announce in Antioch that they will begin to evangelize the Gentiles.

Births

• December 4 – Aulus Persius Flaccus, Roman poet (d. AD 62)
• Mariamne, daughter of Herod Agrippa I (approximate date)
• Zhang Daoling, Chinese Taoist master (d. 156)

Deaths

• Artaxias III, Roman client king of Armenia (b. 13 BC)
• Philip the Tetrarch, Jewish ruler of Batanaea
• Stephen, Jewish martyr of Christianity (stoned to death)