6 BC

Year 6 BC was a common year starting on Sunday or Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Balbus and Vetus.

Events
 Caesar Augustus sends ferrets to the Balearic Islands to control rabbits
 Tiberius is sent to Armenia. He then retires to Rhodes.

 Deaths 
 Consort Ban, Chinese concubine of Emperor Cheng of Han, also a poet and scholar (b. 48 BC)
 Consort Feng Yuan (b. c. 48 BC)
 Liu Xiang, Chinese scholar (b. 77 BC)