48 BC

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48 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 48 BC
XLVIII BC
Ab urbe condita 706
Ancient Egypt era XXXIII dynasty, 276
- Pharaoh Cleopatra VII, 4
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer) 183rd Olympiad (victor
Assyrian calendar 4703
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −641 – −640
Berber calendar 903
Buddhist calendar 497
Burmese calendar −685
Byzantine calendar 5461–5462
Chinese calendar 壬申年 (Water  Monkey)
2650 or 2443
     to 
癸酉年 (Water  Rooster)
2651 or 2444
Coptic calendar −331 – −330
Discordian calendar 1119
Ethiopian calendar −55 – −54
Hebrew calendar 3713–3714
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 9–10
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 3053–3054
Holocene calendar 9953
Iranian calendar 669 BP – 668 BP
Islamic calendar 690 BH – 689 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar N/A
Korean calendar 2286
Minguo calendar 1959 before ROC
民前1959年
Nanakshahi calendar −1515
Seleucid era 264/265 AG
Thai solar calendar 495–496
Tibetan calendar ཆུ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་
(male Water-Monkey)
79 or −302 or −1074
     to 
ཆུ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་
(female Water-Bird)
80 or −301 or −1073

Year 48 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Vatia (or, less frequently, year 706 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 48 BC 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.

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Roman Republic

Egypt

  • September 28 Pompey the Great is assassinated on the orders of King Ptolemy XIII, after landing in Egypt (may have occurred September 29, records unclear).
  • October Julius Caesar reaches Alexandria, a city founded by Alexander the Great. He is met by an Egyptian delegation from Ptolemy XIII. The Egyptians offer him gifts: the ring of Pompey and his head.
  • Queen Cleopatra VII returns to the palace rolled into a Persian carpet and has it presented to Caesar by her servant. The Egyptian princess, only twenty-one years old, becomes his mistress.
  • December Battle in Alexandria: Forces of Caesar and his ally Cleopatra VII and those of rival King Ptolemy XIII and Queen Arsinoe IV. The latter two are defeated and flee the city, but during the battle part of the Library of Alexandria catches fire.

Asia

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References

  1. LeGlay, Marcel; Voisin, Jean-Louis; Le Bohec, Yann (2001). A History of Rome (Second ed.). Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell. p. 129. ISBN   0-631-21858-0.
  2. "Pompey the Great | Roman statesman | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved December 2, 2022.