48 BC
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| 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 |
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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.
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