5 BC

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:	8 BC 7 BC 6 BC – 5 BC – 4 BC 3 BC 2 BC

5 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	5 BC IV BC
Ab urbe condita	749
Ancient Greek era	193rd Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4746
Bengali calendar	−597
Berber calendar	946
Buddhist calendar	540
Burmese calendar	−642
Byzantine calendar	5504–5505
Chinese calendar	乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 2692 or 2632     — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 2693 or 2633
Coptic calendar	−288 – −287
Discordian calendar	1162
Ethiopian calendar	−12 – −11
Hebrew calendar	3756–3757
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	52–53
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3097–3098
Holocene calendar	9996
Iranian calendar	626 BP – 625 BP
Islamic calendar	645 BH – 644 BH
Julian calendar	5 BC IV BC
Korean calendar	2329
Minguo calendar	1916 before ROC 民前1916年
Seleucid era	307/308 AG
Thai solar calendar	538–539

Year 5 BC was a common year starting on Monday or Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar (the sources differ, see leap year error for further information) and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Proleptic Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Sulla (or, less frequently, year 749 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 5 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Births

• January 13 – Emperor Guangwu of Han, ruler of China (d. AD 57)
• Lucius Vitellius the Elder, Roman consul and Governor of Syria (d. AD 51)
• The birthdates of John the Baptist and Jesus are not generally known, but 5 BC is often assumed to be the date. The spring Passover feast (often around April 21) has been cited as a possible date for the birth of Christ, assuming that this had relevance to being a Messiah claimant, or that his birthday might have been related to Passover. Others theologically tie his birth to Sukkot, the fall Feast of Tabernacles.
  • John the Baptist? (d. c. AD 30)
  • Possibly 29 September – Jesus

Deaths

• Cleopatra Selene II
• King Herod