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30 g Caesar captures Germans and Gauls. 17 51

12th of Egypt, Cleopatra for 22 years

h Virgil becomes learned by studies at Cremona. *

23 i Catullus dies at Rome in the 30th year of his life. * 10 58 1 h The beginning of the civil war of Caesar and Pompey. 18 50

1960 24 k M. Callidius the orator is considered important; later, having followed the Caesarean factions in the Civil War, when he was in charge of Gallia Togata, 11 57 2 i Diodorus Siculus, a writer of Greek history, is considered important. *? 19 49

181st Olympiad 183rd Olympiad

(1) 58BC, in Macedonia. Gnaeus Plancius was quaestor of Macedonia.

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Alexandrians

Jews BC Romans

Alexandrians

Jews BC

a Gaius Julius Caesar was the first among the Romans to attain sole power, from whom Romans holding first rank are called 'Caesars'. 184th Olympiad a Antony decreed that the month Quintilis should be called July: because Julius (Caesar) had been born in it.

5 b After Judaea had been captured, Cassius despoils the temple. 7 23 44

First of the Romans, C. JULIUS CAESAR, for 4 years and 7 months c On the Ides of March, Gaius Julius Caesar is slain in the Curia, and at once Publius Dolabella took office. 1 *

b From this point the Antioch-enes calcul-ate their dates. 1 c Pompey, conquered in battle, and fleeing, is killed by the eunuchs of the king of the Alexandrians. 3 20 48

d The body of C. Caesar cremated on the Rostra, as an honour. *

d M. Caelius the praetor and T. Annius Milo the exile crushed while simultaneously promoting a revolt in the Thurian and Bruttian regions. *

e Servius Sulpicius, a lawyer, and Publius Servilius Isauricus given a state funeral. *

f At Rome, three simultaneously risen suns gradually coalesced into the same disk. *

1970 2 e Ptolemy's carcass found in the Nile wearing a golden breastplate. * 4 21 47

g Among other portents, that occurred all around the world, an ox in the region of Rome at its plowing spoke: "It is useless to goad me on. For soon there will be a shortage not of crops but of men." 2 *

f Caesar confirms the reign of Cleopatra in Egypt on account of the influence of her unchastity.

3 g Julian basilica dedicated at Rome. * 5 22 46