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Year '''13 BC''' was either a [[common year starting on Friday]], [[Common year starting on Saturday|Saturday]] or [[Common year starting on Sunday|Sunday]] or a [[leap year starting on Friday]] or [[Leap year starting on Saturday|Saturday]] of the [[Julian calendar]] (the sources differ, see [[Julian calendar#Leap year error|leap year error]] for further information) and a [[leap year starting on Wednesday]] of the [[Proleptic Julian calendar]]. At the time, it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Nero and Varus''' (or, less frequently, '''year 741 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 13 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [[Anno Domini]] [[calendar era]] became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

== Events ==
=== By place ===
==== Roman Empire ====
* [[Tiberius|Tiberius Claudius Nero]] and [[Publius Quinctilius Varus]] are [[Roman Consul]]s.
* The Roman general [[Nero Claudius Drusus]] [[Construction|builds]] the [[fortification|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 legion|Roman army]] to beat the [[Germanic peoples|Germans]] back across the [[Rhine]]. He travels to the [[North Sea]] and pays [[tribute]] to the [[Frisii]].
* The [[Ara Pacis Augustae]] ("Altar of Augustan Peace") is commissioned by the [[Roman Senate]] to honor the [[Roman triumph|triumphal]] return of Emperor [[Augustus]] from [[Hispania]] and Gaul.
* Revolt in [[Thrace]] against Roman rule led by [[Vologases (chief)|Vologases]].

== Births ==
* [[Artaxias III]], Roman client king of [[Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity)|Armenia]] (d. [[AD 34]])
* [[Livilla]], daughter of [[Nero Claudius Drusus]] and [[Antonia Minor]] (d. [[AD 31]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Vagi |first1=David |title=Coinage and History of the Roman Empire |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-97125-0 |page=107 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dIEYDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT107 |language=en}}</ref>

== Deaths ==
* [[Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (triumvir)|Marcus Aemilius Lepidus]], Roman consul (b. c. [[90 BC]])
* [[Paullus Aemilius Lepidus]], Roman consul (b. c. [[77 BC]])
* [[Rhescuporis II (Astaean)|Rhescuporis II]], king of the [[Odrysian kingdom|Odrysian Kingdom]]

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