49 BC
Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century
Decades: 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC - 40s BC - 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC 0s BC 0s
Years: 54 BC 53 BC 52 BC 51 BC 50 BC 49 BC 48 BC 47 BC 46 BC 45 BC 44 BC
Events
- The Great Roman Civil War commences -
- January 1 - The Roman Senate receives a proposal from Julius Caesar that he and Pompey should lay down their commands simultaneously. The Senate responds that Caesar must immediately surrender his command.
- January 10 - Julius Caesar leads his army across the Rubicon, which separates his jurisdiction from that of the Senate, and thus initiates a civil war.
- Februrary, Pompey's flight to Epirus with most of the Senate
- March 9, Caesar advanced against Pompeian forces in Spain
- April 19, Caesar's siege of Massilia against the Pompeian Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, later the siege was conducted by Caesarian Gaius Trebonius
- June, Caesar's arrival in Spain, who was able to seized the Pyrenees passes against the Pompeian L. Afranius and M. Petreius.
- June 7 – Cicero slips out of Italy and goes to Salonika.
- July 30, Caesar surrounded Afranius and Petreius's army in Ilerda
- August 2, Pompeians in Ilerda surrendered to Caesar
- August 24 - Caesar's general Gaius Curio, is defeated in North Africa by the Pompeians under Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia, whom he defeated earlier in the Battle of Utica, in the Battle of the Bagradas River and suicided.
- September Decimus Brutus, a Caesarian, defeated the combined Pompeian-Massilian naval forces in the naval Battle of Massilia, while the Caesarian fleet in the Adriatic was defeated near Curicta (Krk)
- September 6, Massilia surrendered to Caesar, coming back from Spain
- October, Caesar appointed Dictator in Rome
Births
Deaths
- Gaius Curio (suicide)af:49 v.C.
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