6 BC facts for kids

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century
Decades:	30s BC 20s BC 10s BC – 0s BC – 0s 10s 20s
Years:	9 BC 8 BC 7 BC – 6 BC – 5 BC 4 BC 3 BC

6 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	6 BC V BC
Ab urbe condita	748
Ancient Greek era	193rd Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4745
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−598
Berber calendar	945
Buddhist calendar	539
Burmese calendar	−643
Byzantine calendar	5503–5504
Chinese calendar	甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 2691 or 2631 — to — 乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 2692 or 2632
Coptic calendar	−289 – −288
Discordian calendar	1161
Ethiopian calendar	−13 – −12
Hebrew calendar	3755–3756
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	51–52
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3095–3096
Holocene calendar	9995
Iranian calendar	627 BP – 626 BP
Islamic calendar	646 BH – 645 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	6 BC V BC
Korean calendar	2328
Minguo calendar	1917 before ROC 民前1917年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1473
Seleucid era	306/307 AG
Thai solar calendar	537–538
Tibetan calendar	阳木虎年 (male Wood-Tiger) 121 or −260 or −1032 — to — 阴木兔年 (female Wood-Rabbit) 122 or −259 or −1031

Year 6 BC was a common year starting on Sunday or Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Balbus and Vetus.

Events

Consort Ban, Chinese concubine of Emperor Cheng of Han, also a poet and scholar (b. 48 BC)
Consort Feng Yuan (b. c. 48 BC)
Liu Xiang, Chinese scholar (b. 77 BC)