49 BC

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Heads of State

Year of The Water Monkey壬申( at the beginning of the year metal sheep辛未)

Syria: 263/264

Events

Cursus Honorum

  • Gaius Claudius Marcellus and Lentulus Crus are consuls Lucius Cornelius the Roman Empire.
  • Mark Antony is a tribune of the Roman Republic, together with Lucius Caecilius Metellus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Quintus Cassius Longinus and Lucius Marcius Philippus.
  • Marcus Aemilius Lepidus is praetor. In this capacity he initiated which is made in this year appointment to the dictator Caesar.

Roman Civil War

  • January 7: The Roman Senate rejects Gaius Julius Caesar's proposal for a simultaneous release of his army and on Pompey Pompey and commissioned with the defense of Rome.
  • January 10: " Alea iacta est ": Gaius Julius Caesar exceeds the Rubicon, thus triggering the civil war against Pompey from.
  • April 23: The Optimates stretching from Sicily to Africa back. Caesars general Gaius Curio Scribonius lands on the island.
  • August: Curio lands in Africa and wins there some minor victories, but suffered a crushing defeat at the Battle of Bagradas.

Died

  • August: Gaius Curio Scribonius, Roman politician and military commander ( * 90 BC)
  • Aristobulus II, the Jewish king (c. 100 BC)
  • Alexander, son of Aristobulus (c. 80 BC)
  • Han Xuandi, Chinese emperor of the Western Han Dynasty ( 91 BC * )
  • Marcus Licinius Crassus, Roman politician (* probably before 85 BC)
  • Marcus Perperna, Roman politician (c. 147 BC)
April 2014 List of centuries 3rd century BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC 59 BC 53 BC 45 BC 39 BC Vikram Samvat Buddhist calendar Sexagenary cycle Olympiad Gaius Claudius Marcellus Maior Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Crus Roman consul Lucius Marcius Philippus (consul 38 BC) Gaius Scribonius Curio Alexander of Judaea Emperor Xuan of Han Marcus Perperna (consul 92 BC)
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