3

Not to be confused with the Russian alphabet З.

Year 3 (III) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

The rule of Augustus is renewed for a ten-year period.
Augustus adopts his grandson, Gaius Caesar, with the expectation that he will succeed him. Gaius is made proconsul and is sent on a special mission to the East.
Lucius Aelius Lamia and Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus are consuls of Rome.

Europe

Menneas becomes Archon of Athens.
Five German tribes are unified by Marbod, King of the Marcomanni. The unification of the five tribes represents a direct threat to Rome in the area that will become Silesia and Saxony.

East Asia

King Yuri of Goguryeo moved the capital from Jolbon Fortress to Gungnae Fortress.
Wang Mang foils a plot by his son, Wang Yu, his brother-in-law, Lu Kuan, and the Wei clan to oust him from the regent's position. Wang Yu and Lu Kuan are killed in the purge that follows.

Births

Ban Biao, Chinese historian (d. 54)
Paul of Tarsus (d. c. 67)

Translation

The word "3" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Afrikaans, Aragonese, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Franco-Provençal/Arpitan, Asturian, Guarani, Azeri, Belarusian, Belarusian (Taraškievica), Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chuvash, Czech, Corsican, Welsh, Danish, German, Estonian, Greek, Spanish, Esperanto, Basque, French, West Frisian, Irish, Manx, Galician, Croatian, Ido, Indonesian, Interlingua, Italian, Hebrew, Javanese, Georgian, Kashubian, Kazakh, Swahili, Latin, Latvian, Luxembourgish, Lombard, Hungarian, Macedonian, Malay, Nahuatl, Dutch, Neapolitan, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Norman, Occitan, Uzbek, Low Saxon, Polish, Portuguese, Tahitian, Romanian, Quechua, Sakha, Albanian, Simple English, Slovak, Slovenian, Sranan, Serbian, Sundanese, Finnish, Swedish, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Venetian, Volapük, West Flemish, Waray-Waray, Yoruba, Zazaki.

Translation(s) in other languages: Alemannic: 0er#Johr 3, Arabic: ملحق:3, Bengali: ৩, Min Nan: 3 nî, Bihari: ३, Persian: ۳ (میلادی), Korean: 3년, Bishnupriya Manipuri: মারি ৩, Haitian: 3 (almanak jilyen), Lithuanian: 3 m., Marathi: इ.स. ३, Japanese: 3年, Oriya: ୩, Pali: ३, Ripuarian: Joohr 3, Russian: 3 год, Sanskrit: ३, Thai: พ.ศ. 546, Urdu: 3ء, Cantonese: 3年, Chinese: 3年.