AD 36

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AD 36 (XXXVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Allenius and Plautius (or, less frequently, year 789 Ab urbe condita). The denomination AD 36 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

December 25 – Wu Han commands the forces of Emperor Guang Wu of the Eastern Han to conquer the separatist Chengjia Empire, reuniting China.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=49OvCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA270 |title=A Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23–220 AD)|last=de Crespigny|first=Rafe |author-link=Rafe de Crespigny |date=2006 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-474-1184-0|page=270}}

Pontius Pilate is recalled to Rome, after putting down a Samaritan uprising.
Lucius Vitellius defeats Artabanus III of Parthia in support of another claimant to the throne, Tiridates III.
Herod Antipas suffers major losses in a war with Aretas IV of Nabatea, provoked partly by Antipas' divorce of Aretas' daughter. According to Josephus, Herod's defeat was popularly believed to be divine punishment for his execution of John the Baptist. Emperor Tiberius orders his governor of Syria, Vitellius, to capture or kill Aretas, but he is reluctant to support Herod and abandons his campaign upon Tiberius' death in AD 37.Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=J.+AJ+18.113 18.113–126]; {{cite journal |last=Bruce |first=F. F. |author-link=F. F. Bruce |year=1963–1965 |title=Herod Antipas, Tetrarch of Galilee and Peraea |journal=Annual of Leeds University Oriental Society |volume=5 |pages=6–23, pp. 17–18 |url=http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/herod_bruce.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/herod_bruce.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |access-date=2007-10-21 }}
Marcellus becomes governor of Judaea and Samaria.

Lucius Annius Vinicianus, Roman senator and legatus in the Roman–Parthian War of 58–63.Tacitus, Annals, pp. 413