13 BC Facts for Kids

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century
Decades:	40s BC 30s BC 20s BC – 10s BC – 0s BC 0s 10s
Years:	16 BC 15 BC 14 BC – 13 BC – 12 BC 11 BC 10 BC

13 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	13 BC XII BC
Ab urbe condita	741
Ancient Greek era	191st Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4738
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−605
Berber calendar	938
Buddhist calendar	532
Burmese calendar	−650
Byzantine calendar	5496–5497
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 2684 or 2624 — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 2685 or 2625
Coptic calendar	−296 – −295
Discordian calendar	1154
Ethiopian calendar	−20 – −19
Hebrew calendar	3748–3749
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	44–45
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3088–3089
Holocene calendar	9988
Iranian calendar	634 BP – 633 BP
Islamic calendar	654 BH – 652 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	13 BC XII BC
Korean calendar	2321
Minguo calendar	1924 before ROC 民前1924年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1480
Seleucid era	299/300 AG
Thai solar calendar	530–531
Tibetan calendar	阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) 114 or −267 or −1039 — to — 阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) 115 or −266 or −1038

Year 13 BC was either a common year starting on Friday, Saturday or Sunday or a leap year starting on Friday or Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Nero and Varus.

Events

The Roman general Nero Claudius Drusus builds a stronghold in what is now the city of Mainz, Germany
Drusus is made governor of Gaul. He traveled to the North Sea to pay tribute to the Frisii.

Drusus Julius Caesar, son of Tiberius Claudius Nero and Vipsania Agrippina (d. AD 23)
Livilla, daughter of Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia Minor (d. AD 31)

for more information, see Category:13 BC deaths.

Aemilius Lepidus Paullus, member of the Roman Senate (approximate date) (b. c. 77 BC)
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, triumvir (b. c. 90 BC)