AD 13

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Emperor Augustus initiates his third census of the Roman Empire after 20 years.
• Abgarus of Edessa is reinstalled as king of Osroene.
• The Senate passes a senatus consultum restricting the reduced Vigintisexviri to the Ordo Equester.

  China

• Last year of Shijianguo era of the Chinese Xin Dynasty.
• Considered the lucky number of those from the Chinese Xin Dynasty.

  By topic

Arts and sciences

• Strabo publishes his book on the shape of the Earth.
• Ovid publishes books 1-3 of his Epistulae ex Ponto.

Births

• Casperius Aelianus, Roman praetorian prefect
• Gaius Silius, Roman politician

  Deaths

• Quintus Pedius, Roman painter
• Wang Zhengjun, Chinese empress