36

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

Contents

Events

By place

Roman Empire

Mesoamerica

Births

Deaths

Events

By place

Roman Empire

★ Pontius Pilate is recalled to Rome after putting down a Samaritan uprising.

★ L. Vitellius defeated Artabanus of Parthia in support of another clamaint to the throne, Tiridates III.

★ Herod Antipas is remarried. This angers his first father-in-law, Aretas de Nabatene, who demolishes Herod militarily. Antipas calls for help from Tiberius. However, Tiberius ignores the request, as his governor of Syria, Vitellius, is reticent to support Herod. According to Josephus, Herod's defeat was popularly believed to be divine punishment for his execution of John the Baptist.

★ 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)