55 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: | 58 BC 57 BC 56 BC – 55 BC – 54 BC 53 BC 52 BC |
| 55 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 55 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 699 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Assyrian calendar | 4696 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1898–-1897 |
| Bengali calendar | -647 |
| Berber calendar | 896 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 490 |
| Burmese calendar | -692 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5454–5455 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙丑年 (2582/2642) — to —
丙寅年(2583/2643) |
| Coptic calendar | -338–-337 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -62–-61 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3706–3707 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2–3 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3047–3048 |
| Holocene calendar | 9946 |
| Iranian calendar | 676 BP – 675 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 697 BH – 696 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2279 |
| Minguo calendar | 1966 before ROC 民前1966年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 489 |
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Year 55 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Crassus and Pompey (or, less frequently, year 699 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 55 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.
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[edit] By place
[edit] Roman Republic
- Consuls: Marcus Licinius Crassus and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus.
- Consuls Marcus Licinius Crassus and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus pass the Lex Trebonia.
- Pompey's Theater, the first permanent (non-wooden) theatres in Rome. Built of stone on the Field of Mars, it included a temple to Venus Victorious, a public courtyard, and a meeting hall or curia in the far end near the "Sacred Area".
- Gallic War
- Julius Caesar continues his campaigns in Gaul, he spreads Roman law and order, and makes the whole country as far as the Channel accessible to trade.
- May – Caesar defeats a Germanic army then massacres the women and children, totalling 430,000 people, somewhere near the Meuse and Rhine Rivers.
- June – Caesar crosses the Rhine River near the modern site of Bonn.
[edit] Britain
- August 22 or August 26 – Julius Caesar commands the first Roman invasion of Britain, likely a reconnaissance-in-force expedition, in response to the Britons giving military aid to his Gallic enemies. He may also be acting in support of Mandubracius, exiled prince of the Trinovantes, whose father Imanuentius was overthrown and killed by his rival Cassivellaunus around this time. Due to bad weather and revolts in Gaul the expedition achieves little, but the Roman Senate decrees twenty days of thanksgiving when the expedition returns safely to Gaul.
[edit] Parthia
- Mithridates III, claimant to the throne of Parthia, supported by Aulus Gabinius, Roman governor of Syria, is defeated by Surena, general under Orodes, in the Battle of Seleucia.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- Berenice IV, queen of Egypt (b. 77 BC)
- Archelaus, high priest of Comana Cappadocia (flourished 1st century BC)
- Lucretius, Roman philosopher (b. c. 99 BC)
- Tigranes the Great, Armenian Emperor (b. c. 140 BC)
