Events

• Roman Republic
  • consuls: Gaius Julius Caesar, Publius Servilius Isauricus
  • Civil War:
    • January 4, Caesar lands at Dyrrhachium (Durazzo)
    • March, Mark Antony joins Caesar
    • April, Siege of Dyrrhachium
    • May, 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.
    • Caesar is named consul for a period of five years
    • Roman temple to Bellona on the Capitolinus outside Rome is burnt to the ground.
    • September 28, Caesar learns that Pompey has been assassinated by his own men.
    • 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.
• China
  • Yuan becomes emperor of the Han Dynasty

Births

• Lucius Calpurnius Piso, consul under Caesar Augustus

Deaths

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

48 BC

48 aC | 48 př. n. l. | 48 f.Kr. | 48 v. Chr. | 48 adC | -48 | -48 | 기원전 48년 | 48 p.n.e. | 48 aK | 48 SM | 48 a.C. | 48 לפנה"ס | -48 | I. e. 48 | 48 SM | 48 v. Chr. | 48 AC | 48 f.Kr. | -48 | 48 p.n.e. | 48 a.C. | 48 î.Hr. | 48 до н. э. | 48 pred Kr. | 48 pr. n. št. | 48. пне. | 48 eaa | 48 f.Kr. | MA 48 | พ.ศ. 496 | 48 до Р.Х. | 前48年