49 BC - Definition and Overview

Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century

Decades: 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC - 40s BC - 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC 0s BC 0s

Years: 54 BC 53 BC 52 BC 51 BC 50 BC 49 BC 48 BC 47 BC 46 BC 45 BC 44 BC

Events

• 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 from that of the Senate, and thus initiates a civil war.
• June 7 – Cicero slips out of Italy and goes to Salonika.
• August 24 - Caesar's general Gaius Curio is defeated in North Africa by the Pompeians under Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia in the Battle of the Bagradas River.

Births

Deaths

• Gaius Curio (suicide)