Events

• Roman Republic
  • Consuls: Marcus Licinius Crassus and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
  • Gallic Wars
    • May - Julius Caesar defeats a Germanic army then massacres the women and children, totalling 430,000 people, somewhere near the Meuse and Rhine Rivers.
    • June - Caesar crosses the Rhine River near the modern site of Bonn
    • August - Julius Caesar commands the first Roman invasion of Britain. Due to bad weather and revolts in Gaul the expedition achieves little, but the Roman Senate decrees twenty days of thanksgiving.
  • Parthian war
    • Mithridates, claimant to the throne of Parthia, supported by Aulus Gabinius, Roman governor of Syria, is defeated by Surena, general under Orodes, in the Battle of Seleucia

Births

Deaths

• Berenice IV, queen of Egypt
• Lucretius, Roman philosopher

55 BC

55 aC | 55 př. n. l. | 55 f.Kr. | 55 v. Chr. | 55 adC | -55 | -55 | 기원전 55년 | 55 p.n.e. | 55 aK | 55 SM | 55 a.C. | -55 | I. e. 55 | 55 SM | 55 v. Chr. | 55 AC | 55 f.Kr. | -55 | 55 p.n.e. | 55 a.C. | 55 î.Hr. | 55 до н. э. | 55 pred Kr. | 55 pr. n. št. | 55. пне. | 55 eaa | 55 f.Kr. | MA 55 | พ.ศ. 489 | 55 до Р.Х. | 前55年