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The year 1 AD (I) was a common year starting on Saturday in the Julian calendar. The year started on a Monday in the Gregorian calendar. It was the first year of the 1st century and 1st millennium.

It is one of only seven years to use just one Roman numeral. The seven are 1 AD (I), 5 AD (V), 10 AD (X), 50 AD (L), 100 AD (C), 500 AD (D), and 1000 AD (M).

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Paullus. The denomination 1 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the main method in Europe for naming years. The year before this is 1 BC in the widely used Julian calendar.

 Events 
 By place 
 Roman Empire 
 Tiberius, under orders of Augustus, stopped revolts in Germany (1 – 5).
 Rome: Gaius Caesar and Lucius Aemilius Paullus became consuls, M. Herennius Picens replaces Paullus in July .
 The poem Metamorphoses is written by Ovid.
 The Aqua Alsietina aqueduct is made in Rome.
 Silk appears in Rome. The silkroad foundation's silk road chronology 

 Asia 
 Start of the Yuanshi era of the Chinese Han Dynasty.
 Confucius is given his first royal title (posthumous name) of Lord Bao Chengxun Ni.
 Buddhism is introduced into China.
 Emperor Ping of Han China's reign begins.

 Africa 
 Axum (Ethiopia) is founded (approximate date).

 Americas 
 Moxos ceases to be a significant religious area in South America (approximate date).

 By topic 
 Arts and sciences 
 The poem Metamorphoses is written by Ovid.
 Livy writes his monumental History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita).

 Religion 
 Birth of Jesus as given by Dionysius Exiguus in his anno Domini era according to at least one scholar.Georges Declercq, Anno Domini: The origins of the Christian Era (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2000), pp.143–147.G. Declercq, "Dionysius Exiguus and the introduction of the Christian Era", Sacris Erudiri 41 (2002) 165–246, pp.242–246. Annotated version of a portion of Anno Domini. However, most scholars think Dionysius placed the birth of Jesus in the previous year, 1 BC.

 Births 

 Lucius Annaeus Gallio, Roman proconsul (d. 65)
 Quinctilius Varus, son of Publius Quinctilius Varus and Claudia Pulchra (d. 27)
 Pallas, Greek Freedman and political advisor (d. 65)

 Deaths 
 Arshak II of Iberia, king of Iberia of the Nimrodid Dynasty
 Herod the Great 14 Jan 1AD, king of Judea of the Herod Dynasty

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