55 BC
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| Centuries: | 2nd century BC · 1st century BC · 1st century |
| Decades: | 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC |
| Years: | 58 BC 57 BC 56 BC 55 BC 54 BC 53 BC 52 BC |
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Rome
- Consuls: Marcus Licinius Crassus and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus.
- 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 26 - 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.
[edit] Parthia
- Mithridates III, 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.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- Berenice IV, queen of Egypt.
- Lucretius, Roman philosopher.ca:55 aC
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