54 BC

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Centuries:	2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century
Decades:	80s BC  70s BC  60s BC - 50s BC - 40s BC  30s BC  20s BC
Years:	57 BC 56 BC 55 BC - 54 BC - 53 BC 52 BC 51 BC

54 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

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Births - Deaths

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Establishments - Disestablishments v • d • e

54 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	54 BC
Ab urbe condita	700
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1897 – -1896
Berber calendar	897
Buddhist calendar	491
Burmese calendar	-691
Chinese calendar	2583/2643 (丙寅年) — to — 2584/2644 (丁卯年)
Coptic calendar	-337 – -336
Ethiopian calendar	-61 – -60
Hebrew calendar	3707 – 3708
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2 – 3
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3048 – 3049
Holocene calendar	9947
Iranian calendar	675 BP – 674 BP
Islamic calendar	696 BH – 695 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2280
Thai solar calendar	490
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Year 54 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

[edit] Events

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[edit] Rome

• Consuls: Appius Claudius Pulcher and Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus.
• Gallic Wars
  • July — Julius Caesar's second expedition to Britain: receives nominal submission from the chieftain Cassivellaunus and installs Mandubracius as a friendly king.
  • Ambiorix revolts in Gaul.
• Pompey builds the first permanent theatre in Rome.
• Crassus arrives in Syria as proconsul.
• Octavia Minor and Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor married.
• The beginning of the breakup of the First Triumvirate with the death of Caesar's daughter Julia.

[edit] Births

• Seneca the Elder (approximate date) — Roman rhetor
• Tibullus (approximate date) — Roman poet

[edit] Deaths

• Gaius Valerius Catullus — Roman poet (b. 84 BC)
• Huo Chengjun, Empress of the Han Dynasty of China
• Julia — daughter of Julius Caesar, wife of Pompey (in childbirth)
• Lucius Valerius Flaccus - urban praetor
• Mithridates III, king of Parthia