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Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century
Decades:	20s BC 10s BC 0s BC - 0s - 10s 20s 30s
Years:	2 BC 1 BC 1 AD - 2 AD - 3 AD 4 AD 5 AD

This article is about the year 2. For the number, see 2 (number). For other uses, see 2 (disambiguation).

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Year 2 (II) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events

Following the death of Lucius Caesar, Livia Drusilla persuades Augustus to allow her son Tiberius back into Rome as a private citizen, after six years in enforced retirement on Rhodes.
Gaius Caesar meets with Phraates V, the king of Parthia on the Euphrates. Rather than invade, Gaius Caesar concludes peace with the Parthians — Parthia recognizes Roman claims to Armenia.
Publius Alfenus Varus and Publius Vinicius become Roman Consuls.

Cedeides becomes Archon of Athens.
Using Roman military support, Artavasdes III, son of Ariobarzanes II, king of Media Atropatene, becomes the king of Armenia (to 4).

Juba II of Mauretania joins Gaius Caesar in Armenia as a military advisor. It is during this period that he meets Glaphyra, a Cappadocian princess and the former wife of Alexandros of Judea, a brother of Herod Archelaus, ethnarch of Judea, and falls for her.

Wang Mang begins a program of personal aggrandizement, restoring marquess titles to past imperial princes and introducing a pension system for retired officials. Restrictions are placed on the Emperor's mother, Consort Wei and members of the Wei Clan.
The first census is concluded in China after having begun the year before: final numbers show a population of nearly 60 million (59,594,978 people in slightly more than 12 million households). The census is one of the most accurate surveys in Chinese history.^[1]
The Chinese census shows nearly one million people living in Vietnam.

^ Klingaman, William K., The First Century: Emperors, Gods and Everyman, 1990, p 56

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