This page relates to the year -31 Calendrier Julien.

Events

The Middle East

• Cléopâtre VII obtains Marc Antoine the area of Jericho and a tribute of the Nabatéens. As those cease soon paying the tribute, Cléopâtre requires Hérode Large the, king of Judaea, that he declares the war to them.
• Earthquake in spring which makes approximately 30  000 died in Judaea.

Europe

• With Rome, Consul At of Auguste (for the third time) and of Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus.

• September 2nd: the fleet of Octave Auguste and the admiral Agrippa demolishes Marc Antoine and Cléopâtre with the Bataille of Actium (in Épire). Date regarded as the birth from the Roman Empire
• Antoine flees in Egypt, giving up its fleet and its army. He seizes again himself and tries to resist, but Cléopâtre VII betrays it while negotiating secretly with Octave and while giving by twice the order to its soldiers to refuse the combat.
• Foundation of Nicopolis d' Épire to celebrate the victory of Actium.
• Fine of the Roman Republic.

Inventions, discovered

• the Ciment is used with Rome for the harbor installations and the drains.

Art and culture

• Amphitheater (- 31/-79) and triumphal arch (-30) of Pula in Illyrie.
• De Achitectura , treated Vitruve.

Death

• Hu Hanxie