Editing 7 BC

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Year '''7 BC''' was a [[common year starting on Saturday]] or [[Common year starting on Sunday|Sunday]] of the [[Julian calendar]] (the sources differ, see [[Julian calendar#Leap year error|leap year error]] for further information) and a [[common year starting on Thursday]] of the [[Proleptic Julian calendar]]. In the Roman world, it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of [[Tiberius]] and [[Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso (consul 7 BC)|Piso]]''' (or, less frequently, '''year 747 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 7 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.

== Events ==
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* [[May 7]] – [[Emperor Ai of Han|Emperor Ai]] succeeds to the throne of [[Han China]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Barbieri-Low |first=Anthony J. |title=Law, State, and Society in Early Imperial China|author2-link=Robin D. S. Yates|last2=Yates |first2=Robin D.S. |publisher=BRILL |year=2015 |isbn=978-90-04-30053-8 |chapter=Recognized Rulers of the Qin and Han Dynasties and the Xin Period |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1W3sCgAAQBAJ&pg=PR19}}</ref>
* [[Augustus]]' second census of the Roman Empire reports a total of 4,233,000 [[citizen]]s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Augustus/Res_Gestae/2*.html#ref39|title=LacusCurtius • Res Gestae Divi Augusti (II)|website=penelope.uchicago.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-02-22}}</ref> However, the specific criteria of the census are still not clear.<ref>{{Citation |last=Hin |first=Saskia |title=Counting Romans |date=2007-11-01 |type=SSRN Scholarly Paper |url=https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1426932 |access-date=2024-02-16 |publisher=[[Social Science Research Network]] |place=Rochester, NY |language=en |doi=10.2139/ssrn.1426932}}</ref>
* Rome is divided in [[14 regions of Augustan Rome|14 administrative regions]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Fourteen Regions of Augustus (Platner & Ashby, 1929) |url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/Regiones_Quattuordecim.html |access-date=2024-02-16 |website=[[LacusCurtius]]}}</ref>

== Births ==
* Possible birthdate of [[Jesus]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Powell|first=Robert A.|title=Chronicle of the living Christ : the life and ministry of Jesus Christ : foundations of cosmic Christianity|year=1996|publisher=Anthroposophic Press|location=Hudson, NY|isbn=9780880104074|pages=68}}</ref> according to appearance of a very bright triple [[Astronomical conjunction|conjunction]] of the royal star [[Jupiter]] and [[Saturn]] in the sign of [[Pisces (constellation)|Pisces]] (land in the west) in May until December of that year since 854 years, with a retrogradation and stationing in [[November 12]], 7 BC.

== Deaths ==
* [[April 17]] &ndash; [[Emperor Cheng of Han|Cheng]], Chinese emperor of the [[Han dynasty]] (b. [[51 BC]])
* [[Aristobulus IV]], Jewish prince of [[Judea]] (b. [[31 BC]])
* [[Dionysius of Halicarnassus]], Greek historian (approximate date)<ref>{{cite book|last=Claridge|first=Amanda|title=Rome: An Oxford Archaeological Guide|year=1998|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780192880031|pages=[https://archive.org/details/romeoxfordarchae00aman/page/33 33]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/romeoxfordarchae00aman/page/33}}</ref>
* [[Geumwa of Dongbuyeo]], Korean king
* [[Zhao Hede]], Chinese consort of the Han dynasty

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