33

This article is about the year 33. For the number, see 33 (number). For other uses, see 33 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC – 1st century – 2nd century
Decades:	0s  10s  20s  – 30s –  40s  50s  60s
Years:	30 31 32 – 33 – 34 35 36

33 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

33 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	33 XXXIII
Ab urbe condita	786
Assyrian calendar	4783
Bengali calendar	−560
Berber calendar	983
Buddhist calendar	577
Burmese calendar	−605
Byzantine calendar	5541–5542
Chinese calendar	壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 2729 or 2669     — to — 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 2730 or 2670
Coptic calendar	−251 – −250
Discordian calendar	1199
Ethiopian calendar	25–26
Hebrew calendar	3793–3794
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	89–90
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3134–3135
Holocene calendar	10033
Iranian calendar	589 BP – 588 BP
Islamic calendar	607 BH – 606 BH
Julian calendar	33 XXXIII
Korean calendar	2366
Minguo calendar	1879 before ROC 民前1879年
Seleucid era	344/345 AG
Thai solar calendar	575–576

Year 33 (XXXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in the Roman world as the Year of the Consulship of Ocella and Sulla (or, less frequently, year 786 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 33 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

• Servius Sulpicius Galba is a Roman Consul.
• Emperor Tiberius founds a credit bank in Rome.
• A financial crisis hits Rome, due to poorly chosen fiscal policies. Land values plummet, and credit is increased. These actions lead to a lack of cash, a crisis of confidence, and much land speculation. The primary victims are senators, knights and the wealthy. Many aristocratic families are ruined.

China

• Although the usurpation of Wang Mang and the Chimei Rebellion are behind him, Emperor Guangwu now faces a new threat to the Han Dynasty: the Rebellion of Gongsun Shu in the Sichuan province. Gongsun's naval forces are unsuccessful against Han General Cen Peng, so Gongsun decides to fortify his position by blockading the entire Yangtze River with a large floating pontoon bridge, complete with floating fortified posts. He erects forts on both banks of the river for further missile fire and protects his barrier with a large boom. After Cen Peng is unable to break through, he constructs several "castle ships" with high ramparts and ramming vessels known as "colliding swoopers", which break through Gongsun's lines and allow Cen to quell his rebellion. Gongsun Shu is totally defeated three years later.

Births

• Gaius Rubellius Plautus, son of Gaius Rubellius Blandus and Julia (d. 62 AD)

Deaths

• Agrippina the Elder, wife of Germanicus (suicide by starvation) (b. 14 BC)
• Drusus Caesar, son of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder, adoptive son of Tiberius (starvation) (b. 7 AD)
• Gaius Asinius Gallus, widower of Vipsania Agrippina and alleged lover of Agrippina the elder (starvation)
• Jesus Christ of Nazareth, (possible year of crucifixion) (b. c. 7 BC-2 BC)
• Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, senator, consul in 6, father-in-law of Drusus Caesar (natural causes) (b. c. 30 BC)