47 BC

Year 47 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In this year Julius Caesar was Dictator of the Roman Republic.

47 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	47 BC XLVI BC
Ab urbe condita	707
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 277
- Pharaoh	Cleopatra VII, 5
Ancient Greek era	183rd Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4704
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−639
Berber calendar	904
Buddhist calendar	498
Burmese calendar	−684
Byzantine calendar	5462–5463
Chinese calendar	癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 2650 or 2590     — to — 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 2651 or 2591
Coptic calendar	−330 – −329
Discordian calendar	1120
Ethiopian calendar	−54 – −53
Hebrew calendar	3714–3715
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	10–11
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3054–3055
Holocene calendar	9954
Iranian calendar	668 BP – 667 BP
Islamic calendar	689 BH – 688 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2287
Minguo calendar	1958 before ROC 民前1958年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1514
Seleucid era	265/266 AG
Thai solar calendar	496–497
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Water-Bird) 80 or −301 or −1073     — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Wood-Dog) 81 or −300 or −1072

Events

• Caesar stops a mutiny
• Caesar invades Africa
• Cleopatra VII promotes her younger brother Ptolemy XIV of Egypt to co-ruler
• Julius Caesar and his ally Cleopatra VII of Egypt defeat the forces of the rival Egyptian Queen Arsinoe IV
• Caesar defeats Pharnaces II of Pontus, king of the Bosporus, in the Battle of Zela
• Feng Yuan becomes consort to Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty

Births

for more information, see Category:47 BC births.

• Prince Caesarion of Egypt, later Pharaoh Ptolemy XV (d. 30 BC)

Deaths

• Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator, Pharaoh of Egypt (b. 62 or 61 BC)