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Centuries:	1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century
Decades:	0s 10s 20s - 30s - 40s 50s 60s
Years:	33 34 35 - 36 - 37 38 39

This article is about the year 36. For other uses, see 36 (number).

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Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
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Establishments - Disestablishments

Year 36 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

Pontius Pilate is recalled to Rome after putting down a Samaritan uprising.
L. Vitellius defeats Artabanus of Parthia in support of another clamaint 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. Tiberius orders his governor of Syria, Lucius Vitellius, to capture or kill Aretas, but he is reluctant to support Herod and abandons his campaign upon Tiberius' death in 37.^[1]
Marcellus becomes governor of Judaea and Samaria.

Last calendar monument before a moratorium that lasts for about a century and a half.

^ Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 18.113–126; Bruce, F. F. (1963/1965). "Herod Antipas, Tetrarch of Galilee and Peraea" (PDF). Annual of Leeds University Oriental Society 5: 6–23, pp. 17–18. Retrieved on 2007-10-21.