50 BC

Year 50 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Paullus and Marcellus.

50 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	50 BC XLIX BC
Ab urbe condita	704
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 274
- Pharaoh	Cleopatra VII, 2
Ancient Greek era	182nd Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4701
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−642
Berber calendar	901
Buddhist calendar	495
Burmese calendar	−687
Byzantine calendar	5459–5460
Chinese calendar	庚午年 (Metal Horse) 2647 or 2587     — to — 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 2648 or 2588
Coptic calendar	−333 – −332
Discordian calendar	1117
Ethiopian calendar	−57 – −56
Hebrew calendar	3711–3712
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	7–8
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3051–3052
Holocene calendar	9951
Iranian calendar	671 BP – 670 BP
Islamic calendar	692 BH – 691 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2284
Minguo calendar	1961 before ROC 民前1961年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1517
Seleucid era	262/263 AG
Thai solar calendar	493–494
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Horse) 77 or −304 or −1076     — to — ལྕགས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Iron-Sheep) 78 or −303 or −1075

Events

• The Senate demands that Julius Caesar ends his command
• The Roman Republic takes control over Judea

Deaths

• Aristobulus II, king of Judea
• Quintus Hortensius, Roman orator and advocate (b. 114 BC)

In fiction

• The Asterix comic books all take place in this year