48 BC

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Centuries:	2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century
Decades:	70s BC  60s BC  50s BC - 40s BC - 30s BC  20s BC  10s BC
Years:	51 BC 50 BC 49 BC - 48 BC - 47 BC 46 BC 45 BC

48 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

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Establishments - Disestablishments v • d • e

48 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	48 BC
Ab urbe condita	706
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1891 – -1890
Berber calendar	903
Buddhist calendar	497
Burmese calendar	-685
Chinese calendar	2589/2649 (壬申年) — to — 2590/2650 (癸酉年)
Coptic calendar	-331 – -330
Ethiopian calendar	-55 – -54
Hebrew calendar	3713 – 3714
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	8 – 9
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3054 – 3055
Holocene calendar	9953
Iranian calendar	669 BP – 668 BP
Islamic calendar	690 BH – 689 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2286
Thai solar calendar	496
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Year 48 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

[edit] Events

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[edit] Rome

• Consuls: Gaius Julius Caesar, Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus.
• Civil War:
  • January 4 — Caesar lands at Dyrrhachium (Durazzo).
  • March — Mark Antony joins Caesar.
  • April — Siege of Dyrrhachium.
  • May — Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus, co-consul with Julius Caesar, destroys Caelius's magistrate's chair on his tribunal.
  • July 10 — Battle of Dyrrhachium, Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia; he retreats to Thessaly.
  • August 9 — Battle of Pharsalus: Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.
  • September 28 — Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt (may have occurred September 29, records unclear).
  • Caesar is named consul for a period of five years.
  • Roman temple to Bellona on the Capitolinus outside Rome is burnt to the ground.
  • Siege of Alexandria.
  • October — Pharnaces, King of Bosporus defeats the Caesarian Domitius Calvinus in the Battle of Nicopolis (or Nikopol).
  • December — Battle in Alexandria, Egypt between the forces of Caesar and his ally Cleopatra VII of Egypt and those of rival King Ptolemy XIII of Egypt and Queen Arsinoe IV. The latter two are defeated and flee the city, but during the battle part of the Library of Alexandria catches fire and is burned down.

[edit] Asia

• Yuan becomes emperor of the Han Dynasty.

[edit] Births

• Lucius Calpurnius Piso, consul under Caesar Augustus
• Consort Ban, Chinese concubine of Emperor Cheng of Han, also a female poet and scholar

[edit] Deaths

• September 29 — Pompey, Roman politician (assassinated)
• Titus Annius Milo, Roman politician (died in exile)