59 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: | 62 BC 61 BC 60 BC - 59 BC - 58 BC 57 BC 56 BC |
| 59 BC by topic | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 59 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 695 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1902 – -1901 |
| Berber calendar | 892 |
| Buddhist calendar | 486 |
| Burmese calendar | -696 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5450 – 5451 |
| Chinese calendar | [[Sexagenary cycle|]]年 (2578/2638) — to —
[[Sexagenary cycle|]]年(2579/2639) |
| Coptic calendar | -342 – -341 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -66 – -65 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3702 – 3703 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | -3 – -2 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3043 – 3044 |
| Holocene calendar | 9942 |
| Iranian calendar | 680 BP – 679 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 701 BH – 700 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2275 |
| Thai solar calendar | 485 |
Year 59 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Rome
- Consuls: Gaius Julius Caesar and Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus (known as "the consulship of Julius and Caesar" due to Bibulus' withdrawal from public view to "consult the heavens" in an effort to invalidate Caesar's intended legislation)
- The First Triumvirate: Caesar, Pompey and Crassus form an unofficial alliance (or 60 BC)
- Caesar marries Calpurnia, in Rome
- The colonia of Florentia, modern Florence, founded
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- Prince He of Changyi, former Emperor of the Han Dynasty of China
- Gaius Octavius, father of Caesar Augustus (b. c. 100 BC)
