20 BC

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Heads of State

Year of the Metal Ox辛丑( at the beginning of the year metal rat庚子)

Syria: 292/293 ( year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

• Italy and the Roman provinces
• Dependent territories and client states
• Germania Magna Province

• The Roman emperor Augustus includes a peace treaty with the kingdom of the Parthians, in which both sides recognize the Euphrates as the boundary between the two kingdoms. It also takes the return of the Battle of Carrhae captured by the Parthians Roman Legion Eagle ( Aquilae ). Numerous war prisoners to be exchanged between the two sides. Among other things, held hostage son of the Parthian ruler, Phraates IV returns to his homeland.

Born

• Gaius Caesar, Roman politician ( † 4 AD)

• 20 BC: Herod Antipas, King of Judea († 39 AD)
• 20 BC: Lucius Aelius Sejanus, Roman politician ( † AD 31 )
• 20 BC: Velleius Paterculus, Roman historian († after 30 AD)
• 20 BC: Phaedrus, Roman fabulist († 51 )

Died

• Mithridates II, King of Commagene