7

This page is about the year 7 AD. For the actual number, see seven.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC – 1st century – 2nd century
Decades:	20s BC  10s BC  0s BC  – 0s –  10s  20s  30s
Years:	4 AD 5 AD 6 AD – 7 AD – 8 AD 9 AD 10 AD

7 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	7 VII
Ab urbe condita	760
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4757
Bahá'í calendar	-1837–-1836
Bengali calendar	-586
Berber calendar	957
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	551
Burmese calendar	-631
Byzantine calendar	5515–5516
Chinese calendar	丙寅年月日 (2643/2703--Template:Chinese calendar/day/45/2) — to — 丁卯年月日 (2644/2704--Template:Chinese calendar/day/45/3)
Coptic calendar	-277–-276
Ethiopian calendar	-1–0
Hebrew calendar	3767–3768
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	63–64
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3108–3109
Holocene calendar	10007
Iranian calendar	615 BP – 614 BP
Islamic calendar	634 BH – 633 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2340
Minguo calendar	1905 before ROC 民前1905年
Thai solar calendar	550

7 (VII) is a common year of the Julian calendar which started on a Saturday. According to the Gregorian calendar, it started on a Monday. It was the 7th year of the 1st century.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• The Illyrians revolt against Roman rule.
• Pannonians revolt with Dalmatians and Illyrian tribes against Roman rule.
• Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus dismisses the Judean ethnarch Herod Archelaus.
• Publius Quinctilius Varus is appointed governor of Germany.
• Tiberius Quinctilius Varus, legate, is charged with organizing Germany between the Rhine and Elba rivers. He carries out a census, devises tributes and recruits soldiers, all of which create dissension among the Germans.
• Abgarus of Edessa is deposed as king of Osroene.
• Construction of the Temple of Concordia begins.

Asia

• Vonones I of the Arsacid Dynasty becomes ruler of Parthia
• Zhai Yi, Governor of the Commandery of Dong (modern Puyang, Henan) declares Liu Zin, Marquess of Yang Xiang (modern Tai'an, Shandong emperor. This proves to be the largest of the rebellions against Emperor Ruzi of Han.
• Wang Mang puts down the rebellion during the winter. Zhai is captured and executed while Liu Xin escapes.

By Topic

Arts and Sciences

• Strabo writes Geographia (some claimed around AD 18).
• Livy is appointed to tutor Claudius in history. Claudius begins writing and researching a history of the Civil Wars which is critical of Augustus. Livia and Antonia Minor force him to stop his work destroying any opportunity for political advancement.

Births

• Drusus Caesar, son of Germanicus and Agrippina the elder (d. 33).
• Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, Roman General (d. 67).

Deaths

• Athenodoros Cananites, Stoic philosopher (b. 74 BC).