56 BC

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Heads of State

Year of the Wood Buffalo乙丑( at the beginning of the year wood rat甲子)

Syria: 256/257

Events

  • April 5: The agreement of Lucca Caesar, Pompey and Crassus confirm the first triumvirate.
  • Caesar defeated the Veneti in Brittany today.

Died

  • Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Niger, Roman politician
  • Lucius Licinius Lucullus, Roman general and politician ( * 117 BC)
  • Philip II Philorhomaios, last king of the Seleucid empire (c. 95 BC)
  • Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus, Roman general and politician ( * 116 BC)
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