37 BC

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Heads of State

Year of the Wood Monkey甲申( at the beginning of the year, water - sheep癸未)

Syria: 275/276 ( year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • In Korea, the Kingdom of Koguryo is built ( to 668 AD).
  • End of the reign of the Maccabees over the Jews, Herod King of the Jews under Roman suzerainty.
  • Treaty of Tarentum: The second triumvirate between Octavian, Mark Antony and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus is extended by five years.

Science and Technology

  • Varro postulated tiny creatures as the cause of diseases.

Culture

  • Virgil begins under the patronage of Gaius Maecenas with the work on his didactic poem Georgics.

Died

  • 37 BC: Antigonus the Hasmonean, last ruler of the Maccabees
  • 37 BC: Philodemus of Gadara, philosopher and poet (c. 110 BC)
  • Year ( 1st century BC)
  • 37 BC
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