3

Year 3 (III) was a common year beginning on a Monday or Tuesday (the sources differ) according to the Julian calendar, and a common year beginning on a Monday of the proleptic Julian calendar, in effect on that date. In the Roman Empire, it was known as the Year of the Consulate of Lamia and Servilius (or less frequently, year 756 Ab urbe condita). The designation 3 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the A.D. era became the prevalent European method of naming years.

Events

East Asia

• King Yuri of Goguryeo moves the capital of his kingdom, from the fort of Jolbon to the fortress of Gungnae.

Europe

• Menneas becomes Aqueror of Athens.
• Five Sueva tribes are unified by Marbod, King of the Marcomans. The union of these tribes represents a direct threat to the Roman Empire in its possessions in the present Silesia and Saxony.

Roman Empire

• Augusto's mandate is renewed for a period of 10 years.
• Augustus adopts his grandson, Cayo César, with the firm intention that it be he who happens to him. Caesar is made proconsul and is sent on a special mission to the East.
• Lucio Aelio Lamia and Marco Valerio Mesala Mesalino are consuls in Rome.

Science and technology

• It's invented, in China, the truck.
• In Galia, the Roman architecture techniques, such as stone architecture, cannon vaults and cross-section vaults, are beginning to apply.

Births

• St. Paul: Christian apostle.
• Ban Biao, Chinese historian (f. 54).
• Mary Magdalene.
• Tiberius Claudio Balbilo, Greek-gyptian astrologer.