54 BC
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| Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
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| Centuries: | 2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century |
| Decades: | 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC – 50s BC – 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC |
| Years: | 57 BC 56 BC 55 BC – 54 BC – 53 BC 52 BC 51 BC |
| 54 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 54 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 700 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Assyrian calendar | 4697 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1897–-1896 |
| Bengali calendar | -646 |
| Berber calendar | 897 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 491 |
| Burmese calendar | -691 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5455–5456 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙寅年 (2583/2643) — to —
丁卯年(2584/2644) |
| Coptic calendar | -337–-336 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -61–-60 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3707–3708 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 3–4 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3048–3049 |
| Holocene calendar | 9947 |
| Iranian calendar | 675 BP – 674 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 696 BH – 695 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2280 |
| Minguo calendar | 1965 before ROC 民前1965年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 490 |
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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.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] 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.
[edit] Births
- Seneca the Elder (approximate date), Roman rhetor (d. c. 39 AD)
- Tibullus (approximate date), Roman poet (d. 19 BC)
[edit] 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
