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20 BCE

Emperor Augustus Caesar negotiates a peace with Parthia, making Armenia a buffer zone between the two major powers. The captured eagles of Marcus Licinius Crassus and Mark Antony are returned.

Conflict & Security

  • May 12 – Emperor Augustus Caesar negotiates a peace with Parthia, making Armenia a buffer zone between the two major powers. The captured eagles of Marcus Licinius Crassus and Mark Antony are returned.source

Births

  • June 3 – Lucius Aelius Sejanus, advisor of Tiberius (d. AD 31)source
  • Lucius Antonius, grandson of Mark Antony d. AD 25)source
  • Philo of Alexandria, Jewish philosopher (d. AD 50)source
  • Gaius Caesar, grandson of Augustus Caesar (d. AD 4)source

Deaths

  • Artavasdes I, king of Media Atropatene (approximate date)source
  • Mirian II (or Mirvan), king of Iberia (Georgia)source
  • Fuzhulei Ruodi, ruler of the Xiongnu Empiresource
  • Artaxias II, king of Armenia (Artaxiad dynasty)source
  • Mithridates II, king of Commagene (Armenia)source