49 BC
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| Centuries: | 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century |
| Decades: | 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC - 40s BC - 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC |
| Years: | 52 BC 51 BC 50 BC - 49 BC - 48 BC 47 BC 46 BC |
| 49 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 49 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 705 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1892 – -1891 |
| Berber calendar | 902 |
| Buddhist calendar | 496 |
| Burmese calendar | -686 |
| Chinese calendar | 2588/2648 (辛未年) — to —
2589/2649(壬申年) |
| Coptic calendar | -332 – -331 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -56 – -55 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3712 – 3713 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 7 – 8 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3053 – 3054 |
| Holocene calendar | 9952 |
| Iranian calendar | 670 BP – 669 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 691 BH – 690 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2285 |
| Thai solar calendar | 495 |
Year 49 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
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[edit] Rome
- Consuls: Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Crus, Gaius Claudius Marcellus Maior.
- The Great Roman Civil War commences
- January 1 — The Roman Senate receives a proposal from Julius Caesar that he and Pompey should lay down their commands simultaneously. The Senate responds that Caesar must immediately surrender his command.
- January 10 — Julius Caesar leads his army across the Rubicon, which separates his jurisdiction (Cisalpine Gaul) from that of the Senate (Italy), and thus initiates a civil war. In response, the Roman senate invokes the senatus consultum ultimum.
- February — Pompey's flight to Epirus (in Western Greece) with most of the Senate.
- March 9 — Caesar advances against Pompeian forces in Spain.
- April 19 — Caesar's siege of Massilia against the Pompeian Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus; the siege was conducted later by Caesarian Gaius Trebonius.
- June — Caesar arrives in Spain; seizes the Pyrenees passes against the Pompeians L. Afranius and Marcus Petreius.
- June 7 — Cicero slips out of Italy and goes to Salonika.
- July 30 — Caesar surrounds Afranius and Petreius's army in Ilerda.
- August 2 — Pompeians in Ilerda surrender to Caesar.
- August 24 — Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in North Africa by the Pompeians under Attius Varus and King Juba I of Numidia (whom he defeated earlier in the Battle of Utica), in the Battle of the Bagradas River, and commits suicide.
- September — Decimus Brutus, a Caesarian, defeats the combined Pompeian-Massilian naval forces in the naval Battle of Massilia, while the Caesarian fleet in the Adriatic is defeated near Curicta (Krk).
- September 6 — Massilia surrendered to Caesar, coming back from Spain.
- October — Caesar appointed Dictator in Rome.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- Gaius Scribonius Curio (suicide)
- Xuan, emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty
- Lucretius, Roman poet and philosopher
- Zheng Ji
