47 BC

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Year 47 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Calenius and Vatinius (or, less frequently, year 707 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 47 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Roman Republic

• Consuls: Quintus Fufius Calenus, Publius Vatinius.
• Julius Caesar returns to Rome and is dictator for a year.^[1]
• Civil War
  :
  • August – Julius Caesar leads victory against
    Battle of Zela.^[1]
  • August – Julius Caesar quells a mutiny of his veterans in Rome.
  • October – Caesar's invasion of Africa, against
    Labienus, Caesar's former lieutenant in Gaul
    .

• co-ruler
  .
• February – Caesar and his ally
  Mithridates I of the Bosporus, then relieves his besieged forces in Alexandria
  .

• Battle of Zela (the war Caesar tersely describes as veni, vidi, vici
  ).

• Battle at Mount Tabor in Judea: Roman troops, commanded by Gabinius, defeat the forces of Alexander, son of Aristobulus II of Judea, who is attempting to re-establish Judean independence. Some 10,000 Jews die at the hands of the Romans.

China

• Feng Yuan becomes consort to Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty
  .

• June 23 – Caesarion, prince of Egypt, later Ptolemy XV (d. 30 BC)
• Marcus Antonius Antyllus, son of Mark Antony and Fulvia (d. 30 BC)

Deaths

• Pharnaces II of Pontus, king of the Bosporan Kingdom (b. c. 97 BC)
• Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator, king of Egypt (drowned in the Nile)
• Hasmonean
  prince (executed)

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