Editing 38 BC (section)

==== Roman Republic ====
* [[January 1]] &ndash; Beginning of the [[Hispanic era]], by orders of Octavian Caesar.
* [[January 17]] &ndash; Octavian marries [[Livia]] while she is still pregnant from a recently broken marriage. Octavian gains permission from the [[College of Pontiffs]] to wed her while she is still pregnant from another husband. Three months after the wedding she gives birth to a second son, [[Nero Claudius Drusus]], while he and his elder brother, the four-year-old [[Tiberius]], are living in Octavian's household.
* Octavian appoints [[Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa]] governor of [[Transalpine Gaul]], where he puts down an uprising of the [[Aquitanians]]. He also fights successfully against the [[Germanic tribes]], and becomes the next Roman general to cross the [[Rhine]] after [[Julius Caesar]].
* Parthian invasion into [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] [[Syria]]; [[Publius Ventidius Bassus]] defeats [[Pacorus I of Parthia|Pacorus]], at the crossing of the [[Euphrates]] in the [[Battle of Cyrrhestica]]. Ventidius lays siege to [[Antiochus I of Commagene]] in [[Samosata]] until relieved by Antony.
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