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First century BC - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: G, Aeon, Age, Ages, Bicentennial, Buck, Cartwheel, Cent, Centenarian, Centennial, Centigram, Centimeter, Centipede |
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(2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century - other centuries)
The 1st century BC starts on January 1, 100 BC and ends on December 31, 1 BC. An alternative name for this century is the last century BC.
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD)
Events
Significant persons
- Caesar Augustus, Roman emperor
- Cicero, Roman politician and writer
- Cleopatra VII of Egypt, Egyptian ruler
- Horace, Roman poet
- Julius Caesar, Roman politician
- Lucretius, Roman philosopher
- Marcus Antonius, Roman politician
- Marcus Junius Brutus, Caesar's adopted son, supposedly killed him
- Ptolemy XIII of Egypt, drowned in Nile
- Ovid, Roman poet
- Virgil, Roman poet
- Spartacus, gladiator
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
Decades and years
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