6 facts for kids

6 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	6; VI
Ab urbe condita	759
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4756
Bahá'í calendar	-1838–-1837
Bengali calendar	-587
Berber calendar	956
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	550
Burmese calendar	-632
Byzantine calendar	5514–5515
Chinese calendar	乙丑年十一月十三日; (2642/2702-11-13) — to — 丙寅年十一月廿三日; (2643/2703-11-23)
Coptic calendar	-278–-277
Ethiopian calendar	-2–-1
Hebrew calendar	3766–3767
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	62–63
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3107–3108
Holocene calendar	10006
Iranian calendar	616 BP – 615 BP
Islamic calendar	635 BH – 634 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2339
Minguo calendar	1906 before ROC; 民前1906年
Thai solar calendar	549

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC – 1st century – 2nd century
Decades:	20s BC 10s BC 0s BC – 0s – 10s 20s 30s
Years:	3 AD 4 AD 5 AD – 6 AD – 7 AD 8 AD 9 AD

This page is about the year 6 AD. For the actual number, see six.

6 (VI) is a common year of the Julian calendar which started on a Friday. According to the Gregorian calendar, it started on a Sunday. It was the 6th year of the 1st century.

Events

Roman Empire

Herod Archelaus, the ethnarch of Samaria, Judea, and Idumea is deposed and banished to vienne in Gaul.
Iudaea and Moesia become Roman provinces; Syria is guarded by legions X Fretensis, III Gallica, VI Ferrata, and XII Fulminata.
Augustus sets up a special treasury, the aerarium militare to pay bonuses to retiring legion veterans.
Tiberius makes Carnuntum his base of operations against Maroboduus; The Roman legion XX Valeria Victrix fights with Tiberius against the Marcomanni.
the Pannonians, with the Dalmatians and other Illyrian tribes, revolted, only to be overcome by Tiberius after a hard-fought three year long campaign.
The building of a Roman fort starts the current city of Wiesbaden.
Caecina Severus is made governor of Moesia.
Publius Sulpicius Quirinius becomes Governor of Syria and nominally of Judea.
Quirinius conducts a census in Judea (according to Josephus), which results in a revolt in the province, led by Judas the Galilean, and supported by the Pharisee Sadoq. The revolt is repressed, and the rebels are crucified, but it results in the birth of the Zealot movement, the members of which regard God as their only master.
Due to a food shortage in Rome, Augustus doubles the corn rations distributed to the people.
Due to a catastrophic fire in Rome, the barracks system is created to allow quicker response in the case of emergencies.
Augustus banishes Agrippa Postumus, one of his adopted sons, to the island of Planasia.
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus and Lucius Arruntius become Roman consuls.
Theophilus becomes Archon of Athens. There are no further records of Archons until after 23.

Africa

Juba II of Maurentia and Numidia marries Glaphyra, a princess from Cappadocia. The marriage is brief as Glaphyra falls for Herod Archelaus and moves to Judea (This union is partially responsible for Herod's ouster from Judea).
Following the ousting of Orodes III, Vorones I is appointed by Rome as King of Parthia. Parthian grandees refuse to accept him as king. They invite Artabanus II, another member of the Arsacid house, to the throne, precipitating civil war.

Asia

Accession of Ru Zi Ying of the Han Dynasty in China and start of Jushe era of the Chinese Han Dynasty.
Candidates for political office in China must take civil-service examinations.
the imperial Liu clan begins to suspect the intentions of Wang Mang and foment agrarian rebellions during the course of Ruzi Ying's reign. The first of these is led by Liu Chong, Marquess of Ang-Zong

Births

Jesus, usually considered the latest possible year of birth, based on the Quirinius census in that year
Nero Caesar, son of Germanicus and Agrippina the elder (d. 30).
Milonia Caesonia, Roman empress (d. 41).

Deaths

February 3 – Ping, emperor of Han Dynasty (b. 9 BC)
Cleopatra Selene (II), Egyptian ruler of Cyrenaica and Libya (b. 40 BC)
Orodes III, briefly emperor of Parthia

Images for kids

A cube has 6 faces
X-ray of a polydactyl human hand with six fingers
The first appearance of 6 is in the Edicts of Ashoka circa 250 BCE. These are Brahmi numerals, ancestors of Hindu-Arabic numerals.
A standard guitar has 6 strings
The cells of a beehive are 6-sided
A molecule of benzene has a ring of six carbon and six hydrogen atoms.

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