6-3 BCE - Birth of Jesus The birth of Jesus occurs during the rein of the half-Jewish King Herod. the Roman procurator, sometime between 6 and 3 BCE. The date of Jesus' birth was mistakenly calculated in the Christian Gregorian calendar devised centuries later. In 4 BCE Herod dies, and his kingdom is divided between his three sons, including Herod Antipas, who orders the death of John the Baptist, and later is said to have interrogated Jesus on the night before his crucifixion. 8000-4000 BCE 3000-1200 BCE 1700 1200-600 BCE 587-332 BCE 520 BCE 332-63 BCE 166 BCE 63-324 CE 6-3 BCE 66 CE 68 CE 132-135 CE 135-324 CE 324-638 CE 614 CE 638-1099 CE 1099-1291 CE 1291-1917 CE 1492 1517 1886 1918-1948 1948 1950-67 1968-1988 1974 1977 1982 1993 2000