45 BC

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Heads of State

Year of the Fire Rat丙子( at the beginning of the year Wood Pig乙亥)

Syria: 267/268 ( year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • The Lex municipalis ( " Munizipiengesetz " ) governs the jurisdiction in the country towns of the Roman Empire.

Economy

  • First-time stamping of Quinarius aureus.

Science and Technology

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero dedicates his philosophical work De finibus bonorum et malorum and Tusculanae Disputationes the Marcus Junius Brutus.
  • Cicero wrote the dialogue Hortensius, who is dedicated to his friend, the Senator Quintus Hortensius Hortalus.

Born

  • 45 BC: Publius Sulpicius Quirinius, the Roman governor of Syria ( † 21 AD)

Died

  • Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Roman politician (c. 95 BC)
  • Publius Nigidius Figulus, Roman writer (c. 100 BC)
  • Gnaeus Pompey the Younger, Roman general, politician (c. 78 BC)
  • Tullia, daughter of Cicero (c. 77 BC)
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