54 BC

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Year 54 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Appius and Ahenobarbus (or, less frequently, year 700 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 54 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Roman Republic

• Consuls: Appius Claudius Pulcher and Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus.
• Gallic Wars
  • July – Julius Caesar's second expedition to Britain: receives nominal submission from the chieftain Cassivellaunus and installs Mandubracius as a friendly king.
  • Winter – Ambiorix revolts in Gaul. He joins with Catuvolcus in an uprising against the Roman army. Caesar's senior officers Lucius Aurunculeius Cotta and Quintus Titurius Sabinus are ambushed by the Eburones, and killed with almost their entire force.
• Pompey builds the first permanent theatre in Rome.
• Crassus arrives in Syria as proconsul.
• Octavia Minor and Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor married.
• The beginning of the breakup of the First Triumvirate with the death of Caesar's daughter Julia.

Births

• Seneca the Elder (approximate date), Roman rhetor (d. c. 39 AD)
• Tibullus (approximate date), Roman poet (d. 19 BC)

Deaths

• Gaius Valerius Catullus, Roman poet (b. 84 BC)
• Huo Chengjun, Empress of the Han Dynasty of China
• Julia, daughter of Julius Caesar, wife of Pompey (in childbirth) (b. 83 or 82 BC)
• Lucius Aurunculeius Cotta, Roman legate of Julius Caesar
• Lucius Valerius Flaccus, urban praetor
• Mithridates III, king of Parthia
• Quintus Titurius Sabinus, Roman legate of Julius Caesar

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