6 BC facts for kids

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

6 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	6 BC V BC
Ab urbe condita	748
Ancient Greek era	193rd Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4745
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−598
Berber calendar	945
Buddhist calendar	539
Burmese calendar	−643
Byzantine calendar	5503–5504
Chinese calendar	甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 2691 or 2631     — to — 乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 2692 or 2632
Coptic calendar	−289 – −288
Discordian calendar	1161
Ethiopian calendar	−13 – −12
Hebrew calendar	3755–3756
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	51–52
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3095–3096
Holocene calendar	9995
Iranian calendar	627 BP – 626 BP
Islamic calendar	646 BH – 645 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	6 BC V BC
Korean calendar	2328
Minguo calendar	1917 before ROC 民前1917年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1473
Seleucid era	306/307 AG
Thai solar calendar	537–538
Tibetan calendar	阳木虎年 (male Wood-Tiger) 121 or −260 or −1032     — to — 阴木兔年 (female Wood-Rabbit) 122 or −259 or −1031

Year 6 BC was a common year starting on Sunday or Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Balbus and Vetus.

Events

• Caesar Augustus sends ferrets to the Balearic Islands to control rabbits
• Tiberius is sent to Armenia. He then retires to Rhodes.

Deaths

• Consort Ban, Chinese concubine of Emperor Cheng of Han, also a poet and scholar (b. 48 BC)
• Consort Feng Yuan (b. c. 48 BC)
• Liu Xiang, Chinese scholar (b. 77 BC)