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

The year 6 BC was a time long ago, over 2,000 years in the past! It was a common year starting on Sunday or Monday in the Julian calendar, which was the calendar used by the ancient Romans.

Events in 6 BC

In 6 BC, some interesting things happened in the Roman Empire and beyond:

Emperor Augustus was the powerful ruler of the Roman Empire. He was known for making many improvements. In 6 BC, he sent ferrets to the Balearic Islands (which are now part of Spain). Why? To help control the number of rabbits there! Rabbits were causing problems for farmers by eating their crops.
Tiberius, who would later become the next Roman Emperor after Augustus, was sent to a place called Armenia. After this, he decided to take a break from public life and moved to the island of Rhodes for a while.

In 6 BC, some notable people passed away:

Ban Jieyu, also known as Consort Ban, was a very talented woman from China. She was a poet and a scholar, meaning she was very smart and wrote beautiful poems. She was an important woman in the court of Emperor Cheng of Han. She was born around 48 BC.
Feng Yuan, another important woman in the Chinese imperial court, also died around this time. She was born around 48 BC.
Liu Xiang was a famous Chinese scholar and writer. He was born in 77 BC.