48 BC

Year 48 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Vatia.

48 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	48 BC XLVII BC
Ab urbe condita	706
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 276
- Pharaoh	Cleopatra VII, 4
Ancient Greek era	183rd Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4703
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−640
Berber calendar	903
Buddhist calendar	497
Burmese calendar	−685
Byzantine calendar	5461–5462
Chinese calendar	壬申年 (Water Monkey) 2649 or 2589     — to — 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 2650 or 2590
Coptic calendar	−331 – −330
Discordian calendar	1119
Ethiopian calendar	−55 – −54
Hebrew calendar	3713–3714
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	9–10
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3053–3054
Holocene calendar	9953
Iranian calendar	669 BP – 668 BP
Islamic calendar	690 BH – 689 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2286
Minguo calendar	1959 before ROC 民前1959年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1515
Seleucid era	264/265 AG
Thai solar calendar	495–496
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Water-Monkey) 79 or −302 or −1074     — to — ཆུ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Water-Bird) 80 or −301 or −1073

Events

• Caesar besieges Pompey
• Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt
• Library of Alexandria burned by accident in battle
• Yuan becomes emperor of the Han Dynasty

Births

• Lucius Calpurnius Piso, consul under Caesar Augustus (d. AD 32)
• Consort Ban, Chinese concubine of Emperor Cheng of Han, also a female poet and scholar (d. 6 BC)

Deaths

for more information, see Category:48 BC deaths.

• Pompey, Roman politician (b. 106 BC)
• Titus Annius Milo, Roman politician