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
- Iullus Antonius, Roman politician ( † 2 BC)
- Wang Mang, Chinese emperor († 23 AD )
- Marcus Caelius, Roman officer († 9 AD)
- 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)