14 BC
Year 14 BC was either a common year starting on Thursday or Friday or a leap year starting on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday of the Julian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Proleptic Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Crassus and Lentulus. The denomination 14 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.
Events
By place
Roman Empire
- The Roman general Nero Claudius Drusus fortifies Augusta Vangionum, the modern city of Worms, Germany.
- Caesar Augustus makes Beeroth a colonia, named Colonia Julia Augusta Felix Berytus.
- Winter - The Roman Legio X Fretensis is stationed in Syria, and the legionaries are settled at the ancient city of Beirut.
Births
- Agrippina the Elder, daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder
- Claudia Pulchra, daughter of Paullus Aemilius Lepidus and Claudia Marcella Minor
- Drusus Julius Caesar, son of the Emperor Tiberius and step-grandson of the Emperor Augustus
- Ma Yuan, Chinese general of the Han dynasty
Deaths
- Lucius Varius Rufus, Roman Latin poet and writer
- Sulpicia, wife of Lucius Cornelius Lentulus