47 BC
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| 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 |
| Assyrian calendar | 4704 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1890–-1889 |
| Bengali calendar | -639 |
| Berber calendar | 904 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| 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 | 10–11 |
| - 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 |
| Minguo calendar | 1958 before ROC 民前1958年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 497 |
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Year 47 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Calenius and Vatinius (or, less frequently, year 707 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 47 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.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Roman Republic
- Consuls: Quintus Fufius Calenus, Publius Vatinius.
- Civil War:
- 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.
[edit] Egypt
- The arrival of Mithridates of Pergamum and his army raises the Siege of Alexandria.
- 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.
- Pharaoh Cleopatra VII promotes her younger brother Ptolemy XIV of Egypt to co-ruler.
[edit] Anatolia
- 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).
[edit] Judea
- 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 10,000 Jews died at the hands of the Romans.
[edit] China
- Feng Yuan becomes consort to Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty.
[edit] 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)
[edit] Deaths
- January 13 – Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII of Egypt (drowned in the Nile) (b. 62 or 61 BC)
- Pharnaces II of Pontus
