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    Year 50 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Paullus and Marcellus (or, less frequently...
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  • Look up 50 or fifty in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. 50 may refer to: 50 (number) one of the following years 50 BC, AD 50, 1950, 2050 .50 BMG, a heavy...
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    Gaius Claudius Marcellus (88 BC – May 40 BC) was a Roman senator who served as Consul in 50 BC. He was a friend to Roman senator Cicero and an early opponent...
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    This article concerns the period 59 BC50 BC. Consuls: Gaius Julius Caesar and Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus (known in jest as "the consulship of Julius...
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    millennium BC, also known as the last millennium BC, was the period of time lasting from the years 1000 BC to 1 BC (10th to 1st centuries BC; in astronomy:...
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  • Gaius Scribonius Curio (c. 84 BC – 49 BC) was the son of Gaius Scribonius Curio, consul in 76 BC and censor in 61 BC. His political allegiances changed...
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    Gallic Wars (category 50s BC conflicts)
    The Gallic Wars were waged between 58 and 50 BC by the Roman general Julius Caesar against the peoples of Gaul (present-day France, Belgium, Germany and...
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    him for betraying his father in 77 BC. Paullus was quaestor in 59 BC, aedile in 55, praetor in 53 and consul in 50. During Paullus' consulship, Julius...
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    Narbonensis in 123 BC. Gaul was invaded after 120 BC by the Cimbri and the Teutons, who were in turn defeated by the Romans by 103 BC. Julius Caesar finally...
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    Julius Caesar (category 100 BC births)
    Gaius Julius Caesar (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general, statesman, and author. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman...
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    (225 BC) heralded a gradual decline of Gallic power during the 2nd century BC. The Romans eventually conquered Gaul in the Gallic Wars (58–50 BC), making...
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  • known as The Wisdom of Jesus son of Sirach (132 BC) Baruch (150-50 BC) Letter of Jeremiah (300-100 BC) Song of the Three Children (Prayer of Azariah and...
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    century BC, also known as the last century BC and the last century BCE, started on the first day of 100 BC and ended on the last day of 1 BC. The AD/BC notation...
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  • BC) Titus Pomponius Atticus (110 BC–33 BC) Philodemus (110–50 BC) Titus Albucius (105 BC) Rabirius (100 BC) Patro (70 BC) Siro (50 BC) Catius (50 BC)...
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    Pompey (category 106 BC births)
    Magnus (Latin: [ˈŋnae̯ʊs pɔmˈpɛjjʊs ˈmaŋnʊs]; 29 September 106 BC – 28 September 48 BC), known in English as Pompey (/ˈpɒmpi/ POM-pee) or Pompey the Great...
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    Battle of Alesia (category 52 BC)
    The Battle of Alesia or siege of Alesia (September 52 BC) was the climactic military engagement of the Gallic Wars, fought around the Gallic oppidum (fortified...
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  • succession of Rome. Millennia: 1st BC · 1st–2nd Centuries: 7th BC · 6th BC · 5th BC · 4th BC · 3rd BC · 2nd BC · 1st BC · 1st · 2nd · 3rd · 4th · 5th · 6th ·...
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    Satavahana Empire (230 BC – AD 220) Shunga Empire (185–73 BC) Indo-Greek Kingdom (180 BC – AD 10) Indo-Scythian Kingdom (50 BC – AD 400) Indo-Parthian...
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    to obtain the consulship was Appius Claudius Sabinus Regillensis, in 495 BC, and from that time its members frequently held the highest offices of the...
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    Mark Antony (category 83 BC births)
    Marcus Antonius (14 January 83 BC – 1 August 30 BC), commonly known in English as Mark Antony, was a Roman politician and general who played a critical...
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    invasion of Gaul for almost ten years. A build-up of tensions starting in late 50 BC, with both Caesar and Pompey refusing to back down, led to the outbreak...
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    with the Battle of the Arar (Saône) River, were conducted between 58 and 50 BC. Caesar faced formidable resistance from Gallic chieftains such as Vercingetorix...
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    BC, and is considered to have ended around the assassination of Dictator Julius Caesar, Augustus' great-uncle and adoptive father, on 15 March 44 BC....
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    Gallia Cisalpina in 275 BC. The conquest of Gallia Celtica followed in 121 BC and was completed with the Gallic Wars of 58-50 BC. After this period, Gallic...
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  • Iron Age (category 2nd-millennium BC establishments)
    millennium BC (c. 1300 BC). In the Ancient Near East, this transition occurred simultaneously with the Late Bronze Age collapse, during the 12th century BC (1200–1100...
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  • the fall of the Western Roman Empire in about AD 476. Note: All wars are BC unless other wise noted. The Loves of Pharaoh (1922) Sudan (1945) The Egyptian...
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    Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (category Roman campaigns in Germania (12 BC – AD 16))
    century BC, most notably under Julius Caesar, who had conquered most of western Europe and parts of the British Isles in the Gallic Wars (58–50 BC). The...
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    countrymen to invade northern Italy. The Greek historian Posidonius (c. 135–50 BC), whose work is preserved only in fragments by other writers, offers the...
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    Cicero (category 106 BC births)
    SISS-ə-roh; Latin: [ˈmaːrkʊs ˈtʊlli.ʊs ˈkɪkɛroː]; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, writer and...
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  • Cicero's ad Familiares corpus (the whole of book III), which date from 53 to 50 BC. They do not include any of Appius' replies to Cicero. He is also well known...
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