12 BC

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Heads of State

Year of the Earth Rooster己酉(at the beginning of Earth Monkey戊申)

Syria: 300/301 ( year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

• Emperor Augustus is elected Pontifex Maximus (Supreme priests quorum ).

• The Germanic tribe of the Batavi is subjected by the Romans under Drusus, which pushes to the North Sea coast.
• The Romans put on the Rhine, the settlements Antunnacum ( Andernach ) and Bonna (Bonn ) to.
• On the Lower Rhine the camp Castra Vetera ( Xanten ) is created.
• On the Upper Rhine the camp Argentoratum (Strasbourg ) is created.

Science and Technology

• Return of Halley 's Comet

Culture

• The late tribune Caius Cestius Epulo is buried in the erected for him Pyramid of Cestius in Rome.

Born

• Agrippa Postumus, Roman patrician († 14 AD)

• 12 BC: Herod of Chalcis, king of Chalcis († 48 AD)
• 12 BC: Tiberius Julius Alexander, Roman official, Jew († after 50 AD)

Died

• Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Roman general ( * 64 or 63 BC)
• Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Roman politician (c. 90 BC)
• Marcus Valerius Messala Barbatus Appianus, Roman politician
• Mithridates III. , King of Commagene