48 BC Chr.

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48 BC Chr.
Caesar's opponent Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus is murdered in Egypt.	Caesar decides the Egyptian throne disputes in favor of Cleopatra .
48 BC Chr. In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	496/497 (southern Buddhism); 495/496 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	44th (45th) cycle , year of the water tap癸酉 ( at the beginning of the year water monkey 壬申)
Greek calendar	4th year of the 182nd / 1st Year of the 183rd Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3713/14
Roman calendar	from urbe condita DCCVI (706)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 263/264; Syria: 264/265
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	9/10

Events

Politics and world events

• Gaius Iulius Caesar is named after 59 BC. Chr. Again to consul of the Roman Empire elected, together with Publius Servilius Isauricus .
• Aulus Hirtius is believed to be the tribune of the Roman Republic .
• July 10th : In the Battle of Dyrrhachium , Gaius Julius Caesar suffers a defeat in the civil war against Pompey and barely escapes the total annihilation of his legions.

Battle formation in the battle of Pharsalus

• August 9th : In the Roman Civil War, Gaius Iulius Caesar defeats the troops of the Roman Senate , commanded by Pompey , at the Battle of Pharsalus in Thessaly, thereby consolidating his power in the entire Mediterranean region.
• September 28 : The Roman general Pompey, who fled to Egypt, Caesar's adversary in the Roman civil war , is killed by courtiers of King Ptolemy XIII. murdered.

Cleopatra VII, Berlin Collection of Antiquities

• Caesar decides the Egyptian throne disputes in favor of Cleopatra . Alexandrian War
• Cirta becomes the capital of the Roman colony of Numidia .

Religion / disasters

• The temple of Bellona at the gates of Rome burns to the ground.

Science, nature and the environment

• In May, a "guest star" in the constellation Sagittarius is noticed in China , which fades after days. Remnants of a Nova explosion there can be found in the globular cluster M22 .

Born

• Ban Jieyu , Chinese poet and concubine of the Chinese emperor
• Lucius Calpurnius Piso Pontifex , Roman politician († 32 AD )
• Sextus Aurelius propertius , Roman poet of elegance († 15 AD )

Died

• September 28 : Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus , Roman general and politician (* 106 BC )
• Achillas , Egyptian general
• Marcus Caelius Rufus , Roman politician (* around 84 BC )
• Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus , Roman politician (* around 103 BC )
• Appius Claudius Pulcher , Roman politician
• Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus , Roman politician (* 98 BC )
• Titus Annius Milo , Roman politician and gang leader
• Potheinos , Egyptian politician
• around 48 BC Chr .: Artabazos , king of Charakene (* around 135 BC )
• around 48 BC Chr .: Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Crus , Roman politician
• around 48 BC Chr .: Aulus Gabinius , Roman politician and general
• around 48 BC Chr .: Tiraios II. , King of Charakene (* around 141 BC )

Web links

Commons : 48 BC Chr.  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.11515 Fabian Göttgens et al .: Discovery of an old nova remnant in the Galactic globular cluster M 22