-20

This page relates to the year -20 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Tibère restores Tigrane III in Arménie.
Visit of Auguste in Syria. The emperor confirms with Hérode Ier Large the the possession of the plate of the Golan and the sources of the the Jordan and entrusts to Phréroras, junior by Hérode, the tétrarchie of Pérée.
In Judaea, the tax pressure, increased by the gifts to pour with the Romans and great work of Hérode, increases in extreme cases of bearable (900 talents for one to 1,5 million inhabitants). To avoid the revolts, Hérode reduces the taxes of a third into -20 and a quarter in -14.
a pact of friendship is signed between Rome and the Parthes of former Asia.
Recovery of the signs of Crassus.

Tiridate II, with the head of a plot against the king of the Parthes Phraatès IV, drives out it country. Phraatès IV request supports of the Scythian which restores it on its throne. Tiridate takes refuge in Syria, at the Romans, by bringing with him the young person wire of Phraatès IV. Auguste, then with Antioche, milked with Phraatès. He refuses to deliver Tiridate, but his/her son returns to him and concludes peace in exchange from the restitutions of the standards taken with Crassus with Carrhes in -53 and of the return of the surviving prisoners. Cordial relations are established between the Romans and Parthes.

Caius Julius Caesar Vipsanianus wire of Marcus Vipsanius Clutched and his third wife Julia, girl of the Auguste emperor. Born in Vipsania people, it was adopted by his maternal grandfather and entered Julia people from where its name of Caïus Julius Caesar with the addition of its old name gentilice " Vipsania" with the suffix " ianus".

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