3 BC

Not to be confused with BC-3 (disambiguation).

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:	6 BC 5 BC 4 BC – 3 BC – 2 BC 1 BC 1 AD

3 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	3 BC II BC
Ab urbe condita	751
Ancient Greek era	194th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4748
Bengali calendar	−595
Berber calendar	948
Buddhist calendar	542
Burmese calendar	−640
Byzantine calendar	5506–5507
Chinese calendar	丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 2694 or 2634     — to — 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 2695 or 2635
Coptic calendar	−286 – −285
Discordian calendar	1164
Ethiopian calendar	−10 – −9
Hebrew calendar	3758–3759
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	54–55
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3099–3100
Holocene calendar	9998
Iranian calendar	624 BP – 623 BP
Islamic calendar	643 BH – 642 BH
Julian calendar	3 BC II BC
Korean calendar	2331
Minguo calendar	1914 before ROC 民前1914年
Seleucid era	309/310 AG
Thai solar calendar	540–541

Year 3 BC was a common year starting on Wednesday or Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar (the sources differ, see leap year error for further information) 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 Lentulus and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 751 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 3 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

Jerusalem Temple (Judean Hills)

Summer [Tammuz], Gabriel (The Angel ) delivers A message from God (Luke 1:5-25) In the Days of Herod Fortelling the birth of John the Baptist to Zechariah the Priest and Elizabeth his parents.

Roman Empire

• King Maroboduus of the Marcomanni organized in the area later known as Bohemia a confederation of Germanic tribes, with the Hermunduri, Lombards, Semnoni and Vandals.
• Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus commands the Roman army in Germania and crossed the Elbe. He builds the pontes longi (latin- meaning long bridge) over the marshes between the Rhine and the Ems.

Births

• Seneca, Roman statesman (d. AD 65)
• Servius Sulpicius Galba, Roman emperor (d. AD 69)

Deaths

• Imperial consort Fu of the Chinese Han Dynasty