Editing AD 36 (section)

== Events ==
=== By place ===
==== China ====
* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[Wu Han (Han dynasty)|Wu Han]] commands the forces of Emperor [[Emperor Guangwu of Han|Guang Wu]] of the [[Han dynasty#Eastern Han|Eastern Han]] to conquer the separatist [[Chengjia]] Empire, reuniting [[China]].<ref name="Crespigny2006">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=49OvCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA270 |title=A Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23–220 AD)|last=de Crespigny|first=Rafe |author-link=Rafe de Crespigny |date=2006 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-474-1184-0|page=270}}</ref>

==== Roman Empire ====
* [[Pontius Pilate]] is recalled to [[Ancient Rome|Rome]], after putting down a [[Samaritan]] uprising.
* [[Lucius Vitellius the Elder|Lucius Vitellius]] defeats [[Artabanus III (of Parthia)|Artabanus III]] of [[Parthia]] in support of another claimant to the throne, [[Tiridates III of Parthia|Tiridates III]].
* [[Herod Antipas]] suffers major losses in a war with [[Aretas IV Philopatris|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]]. Emperor [[Tiberius]] orders his governor of [[Syria (Roman province)|Syria]], Vitellius, to capture or kill Aretas, but he is reluctant to support Herod and abandons his campaign upon Tiberius' death in [[AD 37]].<ref>[[Josephus]], ''[[Antiquities of the Jews]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=J.+AJ+18.113 18.113&ndash;126]; {{cite journal |last=Bruce |first=F. F. |author-link=F. F. Bruce |year=1963–1965 |title=Herod Antipas, Tetrarch of Galilee and Peraea |journal=Annual of Leeds University Oriental Society |volume=5 |pages=6&ndash;23, pp. 17&ndash;18 |url=http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/herod_bruce.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/herod_bruce.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |access-date=2007-10-21 }}</ref>
* [[Marcellus (prefect of Judea)|Marcellus]] becomes governor of [[Iudaea Province|Judaea]] and [[Samaria]].