13 BC

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Tiberius Claudius Nero and Publius Quinctilius Varus are Roman Consuls.
• The Roman general Nero Claudius Drusus builds the stronghold of castrum Moguntiacum in the location of the modern-day city of Mainz, Germany.
• Drusus is granted governor of Gaul and mobilises a Roman army to beat the Germans back across the Rhine. He travels to the North Sea and pays tribute to the Frisii.
• The Ara Pacis Augustae is commissioned by the Roman Senate to honor the triumphal return of Emperor Augustus from Hispania and Gaul.
• Revolt in Thrace against Roman rule led by Vologases.

  Births

• Artaxias III, Roman client king of Armenia
• Livilla, daughter of Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia Minor

  Deaths

• Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Roman consul
• Paullus Aemilius Lepidus, Roman consul
• Rhescuporis II, king of the Odrysian Kingdom