title: 3 BC
text: Year 3 BC was a common year starting on Wednesday or Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Messalla.
  
  Events
   King Maroboduus of the Marcomanni made a confederation of Germanic tribes, with the Hermunduri, Lombards, Semnoni and Vandals.
   Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus leads the Roman army in Germania and crossed the Elbe
  
  Births 
  
   Seneca, Roman statesman (d. AD 65)
   Servius Sulpicius Galba, Roman Emperor (d. AD 69)
  
  Deaths 
  
   Imperial consort Fu of the Chinese Han Dynasty