51 BC

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Heads of State

Year of the Metal horse庚午(at the beginning of Earth Snake己巳)

Syria: 261/262

Events

• In the Roman Empire Caesar's Gallic wars end. Caesar's De bello war report gallico appears.
• Cicero proconsul in Cilicia.
• Cleopatra and her brother Ptolemy XIII. ascend the throne of Egypt.
• Disintegration of the empire of the Xiongnu.

Born

• Chengdi Han, Chinese Emperor

Died

• Iulia, Roman nobles, grandmother of Augustus (c. 101 BC )

• Posidonius, Greek philosopher (* 135 BC)
• Ptolemy XII. , King of Egypt (c. 110 BC)

• 51 BC: Ariobarzanes II, King of Cappadocia

• Year ( 1st century BC)
• 51 BC