29 BC

29 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	29 BC; XXIX BC
Ab urbe condita	725
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer)	187th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4722
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−622 – −621
Berber calendar	922
Buddhist calendar	516
Burmese calendar	−666
Byzantine calendar	5480–5481
Chinese calendar	辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit); 2669 or 2462; — to —; 壬辰年 (Water Dragon); 2670 or 2463
Coptic calendar	−312 – −311
Discordian calendar	1138
Ethiopian calendar	−36 – −35
Hebrew calendar	3732–3733
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	28–29
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3072–3073
Holocene calendar	9972
Iranian calendar	650 BP – 649 BP
Islamic calendar	670 BH – 669 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	29 BC; XXIX BC
Korean calendar	2305
Minguo calendar	1940 before ROC; 民前1940年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1496
Seleucid era	283/284 AG
Thai solar calendar	514–515
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་; (female Iron-Hare); 98 or −283 or −1055; — to —; ཆུ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་; (male Water-Dragon); 99 or −282 or −1054

Year 29 BC was either a common year starting on Friday or Saturday or a leap year starting on Thursday, Friday or Saturday of the Julian calendar (the sources differ, see leap year error for further information) and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Proleptic Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Octavian and Appuleius (or, less frequently, year 725 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 29 BC 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

Octavian Caesar becomes Roman Consul for the fifth time. His partner is Sextus Appuleius. He is granted the title of imperator, and for the third time in Roman history the doors of the Temple of Janus are closed, signalling peace.
Octavian celebrates, in Rome, three triumphs on consecutive days (August 13, August 14, and August 15) to commemorate his victories in Illyricum, Actium and Egypt.
Marcus Licinius Crassus campaigns successfully in the Balkans, killing the king of the Bastarnae by his own hand, but is denied the right to dedicate the spolia opima by Octavian.
Sofia, modern day capital of Bulgaria, is conquered by the Romans and becomes known as Ulpia Serdica.
Start of the Cantabrian Wars against Roman occupation in Hispania.
Though started under the triumvirate with Mark Anthony and Marcus Lepidus, Octavian completes three projects in the Forum Romanum: Temple of the Deified Julius, the Curia, and the Chalcidicum.^[1]

March 1 – Horace writes the ode Occidit Daci Cotisonis agmen.
Virgil probably completes the Georgics and begins composition of the Aeneid.

↑ Stambaugh, John E. (1988). The Ancient Roman City. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 50. ISBN 0-8018-3574-7.