| Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century |
| Decades: | 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC – 40s BC – 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC |
| Years: | 50 BC 49 BC 48 BC – 47 BC – 46 BC 45 BC 44 BC |
| 47 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 47 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 707 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1890 – -1889 |
| Berber calendar | 904 |
| Buddhist calendar | 498 |
| Burmese calendar | -684 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5462 – 5463 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸酉年 (2590/2650) — to —
甲戌年(2591/2651) |
| Coptic calendar | -330 – -329 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -54 – -53 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3714 – 3715 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 9 – 10 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3055 – 3056 |
| Holocene calendar | 9954 |
| Iranian calendar | 668 BP – 667 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 689 BH – 688 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2287 |
| Thai solar calendar | 497 |
Year 47 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Rome
- Consuls: Quintus Fufius Calenus, Publius Vatinius.
Civil War :- February—Roman general Julius Caesar and his ally Cleopatra VII of Egypt defeat the forces of the rival Egyptian Queen Arsinoe IV in the Battle of the Nile. Ptolemy is killed; Caesar then relieves his besieged forces in Alexandria.
- May—Caesar defeats Pharnaces II of Pontus, king of the Bosporus, in the Battle of Zela (this is the war that Caesar tersely described veni, vidi, vici).
- Pharaoh Cleopatra VII promotes her younger brother Ptolemy XIV of Egypt to co-ruler.
- August, Caesar quells a mutiny of his veterans in Rome.
- October, Caesar's invasion of Africa, against Metellus Scipio and Labienus, Caesar's former lieutenant in Gaul.
- Battle at Mount Tabor in Judea: Roman troops, commanded by Gabinius, defeat the forces of Alexander, son of Aristobulus II of Judea, attempting to re-establish Judean independence. Some 10,0000 Jews died at the hands of the Romans.
Asia
- Feng Yuan becomes consort to Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty.
Births
- June 23—Prince Caesarion of Egypt, later Pharaoh Ptolemy XV (d. 30 BC)
- Marcus Antonius Antyllus, son of Mark Antony and Fulvia (d. 30 BC)
Deaths
- January 13—Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII of Egypt (drowned in the Nile) (b. 62 BC/61 BC)
- Pharnaces II of Pontus
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