Editing 7 BC (section)

== Events ==
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* [[May 7]] – [[Emperor Ai of Han|Emperor Ai]] succeeds to the throne of [[Han China]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Barbieri-Low |first=Anthony J. |title=Law, State, and Society in Early Imperial China|author2-link=Robin D. S. Yates|last2=Yates |first2=Robin D.S. |publisher=BRILL |year=2015 |isbn=978-90-04-30053-8 |chapter=Recognized Rulers of the Qin and Han Dynasties and the Xin Period |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1W3sCgAAQBAJ&pg=PR19}}</ref>
* [[Augustus]]' second census of the Roman Empire reports a total of 4,233,000 [[citizen]]s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Augustus/Res_Gestae/2*.html#ref39|title=LacusCurtius • Res Gestae Divi Augusti (II)|website=penelope.uchicago.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-02-22}}</ref> However, the specific criteria of the census are still not clear.<ref>{{Citation |last=Hin |first=Saskia |title=Counting Romans |date=2007-11-01 |type=SSRN Scholarly Paper |url=https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1426932 |access-date=2024-02-16 |publisher=[[Social Science Research Network]] |place=Rochester, NY |language=en |doi=10.2139/ssrn.1426932|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* Rome is divided in [[14 regions of Augustan Rome|14 administrative regions]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Fourteen Regions of Augustus (Platner & Ashby, 1929) |url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/Regiones_Quattuordecim.html |access-date=2024-02-16 |website=[[LacusCurtius]]}}</ref>