36

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Year 36 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Pontius Pilate is recalled to Rome after putting down a Samaritan uprising.
• L. Vitellius defeats Artabanus of Parthia in support of another clamaint to the throne, Tiridates III.
• Herod Antipas suffers major losses in a war with Aretas IV of Nabatea, provoked partly by Antipas' divorce of Aretas' daughter. According to Josephus, Herod's defeat was popularly believed to be divine punishment for his execution of John the Baptist. Tiberius orders his governor of Syria, Lucius Vitellius, to capture or kill Aretas, but he is reluctant to support Herod and abandons his campaign upon Tiberius' death in 37.
• Marcellus becomes governor of Judaea and Samaria.

Mesoamerica

• Last calendar monument before a moratorium that lasts for about a century and a half.

Births

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Deaths

• Thrasyllus of Mendes, Egyptian astronomer and mathematician
• Jesus (according to some theories)

References

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