Year 9 BC was either a common year starting on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday or a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar (the sources differ, see leap year error for further information) and a leap year starting on Monday of the Proleptic Julian calendar.

The 9th century BC started the first day of 900 BC and ended the last day of 801 BC. It was a period of great change for several civilizations. In Africa, Carthage is founded by the Phoenicians. In Egypt, a severe flood covers the floor of Luxor temple, and years later, a civil war starts.

200,000 B.C. Homo sapiens, the first modern humans, appear in Africa. 62,000 B.C. Bow and arrows with stone points (arrowheads) are used. 30,000 B.C. Cro-Magnon man is flourishing, moving from the Near East into Europe, lives by hunting and gathering. Cro-Magnon’s painted caves with drawings of the animals they killed.

Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus (born 38 bc —died 9 bc) was the younger brother of Tiberius (who later became emperor) and commander of the Roman forces that occupied the German territory between the Rhine and Elbe rivers from 12 to 9 bc.

The marble structure was erected in Campo Marzio , along the Via Flaminia, between 13 and 9 BC, and is a masterpiece of portraiture. Discovery and recovery Subsequent floods of the Tiber completely buried the structure, and memory of its existence was lost.

The 9th millennium BC spanned the years 9000 BC to 8001 BC (11 to 10 thousand years ago). In chronological terms, it is the first full millennium of the current Holocene epoch that is generally reckoned to have begun by 9700 BC (11.7 thousand years ago).

Titus Livius, known in English as Livy (59 BC – 17 AD), was author of a multi-volume history of Rome, from its beginnings through the reign of Augustus, entitled Ab urbe condita, “From the City’s Foundation.”

Step into ancient Rome on September 4, 509 BC, as the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, one of the most sacred and influential sites in Roman history, is dedicated on the Capitoline Hill.

Year 9 BC was either a common year starting on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday or a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Drusus and Crispinus.

Livy’s history, composed as the imperial autocracy of Augustus was replacing the republican system that had stood for over 500 years, presents in splendid style a vivid narrative of Rome’s rise from the traditional foundation of the city in 753 or 751 BC to 9 BC and illustrates the collective and individual virtues necessary to achieve and ...