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'''AD 20''' ('''[[Roman numerals|XX]]''') was a [[leap year starting on Monday]] of the [[Julian calendar]]. At the time, it was known as the '''Year of the [[Consulship]] of [[Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus]] and [[Marcus Aurelius Cotta Maximus Messalinus|Cotta]]''' (or, less frequently, '''year 773 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 20 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 ====
* [[Galba]], the future emperor, is a [[Roman Empire|Roman]] [[praetor]].
* Emperor [[Tiberius]] is forced to order an investigation and a public trial in the [[Roman Senate]], for the murder of [[Germanicus]]. Fearing he will be found guilty, [[Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso (consul 7 BC)|Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso]] commits [[suicide]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=Rome and the Greek East to the death of Augustus |date=1984 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |editor=Robert K. Sherk |isbn=0-521-24995-3 |location=Cambridge |oclc=9197359}}</ref>

=== By topic ===

== Births ==
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== Deaths ==
* [[Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso (consul 7 BC)|Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso]], Roman [[Politician|statesman]] and governor of [[Syria (Roman province)|Syria]] (b. [[44 BC]]) 
* [[Vipsania Agrippina]], wife of [[Gaius Asinius Gallus]] and former wife of [[Tiberius]] (b. [[36 BC]])
*  [[Amanitore]], [[Nubians|Nubian]] [[Kandake|Queen Regnant]] of the [[Kingdom of Kush|Kushitic Kingdom]] of [[Meroë]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Török |first=László |title=The kingdom of Kush : handbook of the Napatan-Meroitic civilization |date=1997 |publisher=Brill |isbn=90-04-10448-8 |location=Leiden |oclc=36865663}}</ref>

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