46 BC
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| Gregorian calendar | 46 BC XLV BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 708 |
| Ancient Egypt era | XXXIII dynasty, 278 |
| - Pharaoh | Cleopatra VII, 6 |
| Ancient Greek era | 183rd Olympiad, year 3 |
| Assyrian calendar | 4705 |
| Balinese saka calendar | N/A |
| Bengali calendar | −638 |
| Berber calendar | 905 |
| Buddhist calendar | 499 |
| Burmese calendar | −683 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5463–5464 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 2651 or 2591 — to — 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 2652 or 2592 |
| Coptic calendar | −329 – −328 |
| Discordian calendar | 1121 |
| Ethiopian calendar | −53 – −52 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3715–3716 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 11–12 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3055–3056 |
| Holocene calendar | 9955 |
| Iranian calendar | 667 BP – 666 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 688 BH – 686 BH |
| Javanese calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | 46 BC XLV BC |
| Korean calendar | 2288 |
| Minguo calendar | 1957 before ROC 民前1957年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −1513 |
| Seleucid era | 266/267 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 497–498 |
| Tibetan calendar | ཤིང་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Wood-Dog) 81 or −300 or −1072 — to — ཤིང་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Wood-Boar) 82 or −299 or −1071 |
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Year 46 BC was the last year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Lepidus.
Events
- Titus Labienus defeated Julius Caesar in the Battle of Ruspina.
- Julius Caesar defeated the combined army of Pompeian followers and Numidians at Thapsus.
- Caesar leaves for Farther Hispania to deal with rebellion in Rome.
- Caesar changes the Roman calendar to create the Julian calendar. The Julian Calendar remains the standard in the western world until the Gregorian Calendar in 1582.
- Caesar appoints his nephew Octavian his heir.
Births
- for more information, see Category:46 BC births.
- Publius Quinctilius Varus, Roman politician (d. 9 AD)
Deaths
- for more information, see Category:46 BC deaths.
- Cato the Younger (Marcus Porcius Cato) (b. 95 BC)
- Metellus Scipio (b. c. 100 BC)
- Vercingetorix, Gaul leader