22 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century
Decades:	50s BC  40s BC  30s BC  – 20s BC –  10s BC  0s BC  0s
Years:	25 BC 24 BC 23 BC – 22 BC – 21 BC 20 BC 19 BC

22 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	22 BC XXI BC
Ab urbe condita	732
Ancient Greek era	189th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4729
Bengali calendar	−614
Berber calendar	929
Buddhist calendar	523
Burmese calendar	−659
Byzantine calendar	5487–5488
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 2675 or 2615     — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 2676 or 2616
Coptic calendar	−305 – −304
Discordian calendar	1145
Ethiopian calendar	−29 – −28
Hebrew calendar	3739–3740
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	35–36
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3080–3081
Holocene calendar	9979
Iranian calendar	643 BP – 642 BP
Islamic calendar	663 BH – 662 BH
Julian calendar	22 BC XXI BC
Korean calendar	2312
Minguo calendar	1933 before ROC 民前1933年
Seleucid era	290/291 AG
Thai solar calendar	521–522

Year 22 BC was either a common year starting on Sunday, Monday or Tuesday or a leap year starting on Sunday or Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar (the sources differ, see leap year error for further information) and a common year starting on Saturday of the Proleptic Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Marcellus and Arruntius (or, less frequently, year 732 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 22 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

By place

Roman Empire

• Lucius Arruntius and Marcus Claudius Marcellus Aeserninus are Roman Consuls.
• Aemilius Lepidus Paullus and Lucius Munatius Plancus are Censors.
• The Roman governor of Egypt, Gaius Petronius, marches the Nile with legions XXII Deiotariana and III Cyrenaica, and destroys the Nubian capital of Napata.
• King Artaxias II returns with support of the Parthians to Armenia and claims the throne. Artavasdes I escapes to Rome, where Caesar Augustus receives him friendly.