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49 BC
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2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century |
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70s BC 60s BC 50s BC - 40s BC - 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC |
| Years: |
52 BC 51 BC 50 BC - 49 BC - 48 BC 47 BC 46 BC |
| 49 BC by topic |
| Politics |
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49 BC in other calendars
| Gregorian calendar |
49 BC
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| Ab urbe condita |
705 |
| Armenian calendar |
N/A |
| Bahá'à calendar |
-1892 – -1891 |
| Berber calendar |
902 |
| Buddhist calendar |
496 |
| Burmese calendar |
-686 |
| Byzantine calendar |
5460 – 5461 |
| Chinese calendar |
辛未年
(2588/2648)
— to —
壬申年
(2589/2649) |
| Coptic calendar |
-332 – -331 |
| Ethiopian calendar |
-56 – -55 |
| Hebrew calendar |
3712 – 3713 |
| Hindu calendars |
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| - Vikram Samvat |
7 – 8 |
| - Shaka Samvat |
N/A |
| - Kali Yuga |
3053 – 3054 |
| Holocene calendar |
9952 |
| Iranian calendar |
670 BP – 669 BP |
| Islamic calendar |
691 BH – 690 BH |
| Japanese calendar |
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| Korean calendar |
2285 |
| Thai solar calendar |
495 |
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Year 49 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.
- Consuls: Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Crus, Gaius Claudius Marcellus Maior.
- The Great Roman Civil War commences
- January 1 — The Roman Senate receives a proposal from Julius Caesar that he and Pompey should lay down their commands simultaneously. The Senate responds that Caesar must immediately surrender his command.
- January 10 — Julius Caesar leads his army across the Rubicon, which separates his jurisdiction (Cisalpine Gaul) from that of the Senate (Italy), and thus initiates a civil war. In response, the Roman senate invokes the senatus consultum ultimum.
- February — Pompey's flight to Epirus (in Western Greece) with most of the Senate.
- March 9 — Caesar advances against Pompeian forces in Spain.
- April 19 — Caesar's siege of Massilia against the Pompeian Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus; the siege was conducted later by Caesarian Gaius Trebonius.
- June — Caesar arrives in Spain; seizes the Pyrenees passes against the Pompeians L. Afranius and Marcus Petreius.
- June 7 — Cicero slips out of Italy and goes to Salonika.
- July 30 — Caesar surrounds Afranius and Petreius's army in Ilerda.
- August 2 — Pompeians in Ilerda surrender to Caesar and are granted pardon.
- August 24 — Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in North Africa by the Pompeians under Attius Varus and King Juba I of Numidia (whom he defeated earlier in the Battle of Utica), in the Battle of the Bagradas River, and commits suicide.
- September — Decimus Brutus, a Caesarian, defeats the combined Pompeian-Massilian naval forces in the naval Battle of Massilia, while the Caesarian fleet in the Adriatic is defeated near Curicta (Krk).
- September 6 — Massilia surrendered to Caesar, coming back from Spain.
- October — Caesar appointed Dictator in Rome.
- Gaius Scribonius Curio (suicide)
- Xuan, emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty (b. 91 BC)
- Lucretius, Roman poet and philosopher
- Zheng Ji
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