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:	5 BC 4 BC 3 BC – 2 BC – 1 BC 1 AD 2 AD

2 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments v • d • e

2 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	2 BC
Ab urbe condita	752
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1845 – -1844
Bengali calendar	-594
Berber calendar	949
Buddhist calendar	543
Burmese calendar	-639
Byzantine calendar	5507 – 5508
Chinese calendar	戊午年 (2635/2695) — to — 己未年 (2636/2696)
Coptic calendar	-285 – -284
Ethiopian calendar	-9 – -8
Hebrew calendar	3759 – 3760
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	54 – 55
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3100 – 3101
Holocene calendar	9999
Iranian calendar	623 BP – 622 BP
Islamic calendar	642 BH – 641 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2332
Thai solar calendar	542
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Year 2 BC was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events

[edit] By place

[edit] Rome

• Julia the Elder, daughter of Augustus and Scribonia is exiled on charges of treason and adultery to Pandateria; her mother Scribonia accompanies her.
• Caesar Augustus was proclaimed Pater Patriae by the Roman Senate; this bestowed title was the logical consequence and final proof of Augustus' supreme position as princeps, the first in charge over the Roman state.^[1]

[edit] Births

• Jesus, Jewish prophet and founder of Christianity (born in the month of Ethanim (Tishrei) (September–October)) (approximate date)^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Deaths

• Iullus Antonius, son of Mark Antony and consul in 10 BC (executed for treason) (b. 43 BC)

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

• Eck, Werner; translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider; new material by Sarolta A. Takács. (2003) The Age of Augustus. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing (hardcover, ISBN 0-631-22957-4; paperback, ISBN 0-631-22958-2).