25 BC
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Heads of State
Year of the Fire Monkey丙申( at the beginning of the year, wood sheep乙未)
Syria: 287/288 ( year in October )
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Roman Empire
- Marcus Claudius Marcellus, nephew of Augustus, married to his daughter Iulia ( hardly marriageable ) and is included in the college of pontiffs.
- Rome wins the new province of Galatia in Asia Minor because of a testamentary disposition of the last Galatian king Amyntas.
- Juba II is used by Augustus as king of Mauritania.
Asia
- Beginning of the reign of the Indo - Greek king Strato II, who ruled until about 10 AD in the eastern Punjab.
Science and Technology
- The Greek architectural theorist Vitruvius (Marcus Vitruvius Pollio ) first describes waterwheels.
Born
- 25 BC: Aulus Cornelius Celsus, a Roman scientist († 50 AD)
Died
- Amyntas, king of Galatia
- 25 BC: Attambelos I, King of Charakene