13 BC facts for kids

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century
Decades:	40s BC  30s BC  20s BC  – 10s BC –  0s BC  0s  10s
Years:	16 BC 15 BC 14 BC – 13 BC – 12 BC 11 BC 10 BC

13 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	13 BC XII BC
Ab urbe condita	741
Ancient Greek era	191st Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4738
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−605
Berber calendar	938
Buddhist calendar	532
Burmese calendar	−650
Byzantine calendar	5496–5497
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 2684 or 2624     — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 2685 or 2625
Coptic calendar	−296 – −295
Discordian calendar	1154
Ethiopian calendar	−20 – −19
Hebrew calendar	3748–3749
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	44–45
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3088–3089
Holocene calendar	9988
Iranian calendar	634 BP – 633 BP
Islamic calendar	654 BH – 652 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	13 BC XII BC
Korean calendar	2321
Minguo calendar	1924 before ROC 民前1924年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1480
Seleucid era	299/300 AG
Thai solar calendar	530–531
Tibetan calendar	阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) 114 or −267 or −1039     — to — 阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) 115 or −266 or −1038

Year 13 BC was either a common year starting on Friday, Saturday or Sunday or a leap year starting on Friday or Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Nero and Varus.

Events

• The Roman general Nero Claudius Drusus builds a stronghold in what is now the city of Mainz, Germany
• Drusus is made governor of Gaul. He traveled to the North Sea to pay tribute to the Frisii.

Births

• Drusus Julius Caesar, son of Tiberius Claudius Nero and Vipsania Agrippina (d. AD 23)
• Livilla, daughter of Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia Minor (d. AD 31)

Deaths

for more information, see Category:13 BC deaths.

• Aemilius Lepidus Paullus, member of the Roman Senate (approximate date) (b. c. 77 BC)
• Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, triumvir (b. c. 90 BC)