This article is about the year 7. For other uses, see 7 (number).

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• The Illyrians revolt against Roman rule.
• Pannonians revolt with Dalmatians and Illyrian tribes against Roman rule.
• Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus dismisses the Judean ethnarch Herod Archelaus.
• Publius Quinctilius Varus is appointed governor of Germany.
• Tiberius Quinctilius Varus, legate, is charged with organizing Germany between the Rhine and Elba rivers. He carries out a census, devises tributes and recruits soldiers, all of which create dissention among the Germans.
• Abgarus of Edessa is deposed as king of Osroene.
• Construction of the Temple of Concordia begins.

Asia

• Vonones I of the Arsacid Dynasty becomes ruler of Parthia

By Topic

Arts and Sciences

• Strabo writes Geographia (some claimed around AD 18).