• Year 59 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Bibulus (or, less frequently...
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  • 59 may refer to: 59 (number) one of the years 59 BC, AD 59, 1959, 2059 59 (album), by Puffy AmiYumi 59 (golf), a round of 59 in golf "Fifty Nine", a song...
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    This article concerns the period 59 BC – 50 BC. Consuls: Gaius Julius Caesar and Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus (known in jest as "the consulship of Julius...
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  • stem rebellion. Julius Caesar passed two pieces of agrarian legislation in 59 BC during his first consulship. They were two pieces of related legislation:...
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    Gaius Octavius (c. 100 – 59 BC) was a Roman politician. He was an ancestor to the Roman emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. He was the biological...
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    First Triumvirate (category 50s BC)
    Initially secret, it emerged publicly during Caesar's first consulship in 59 BC to push through legislation for the three allies. Caesar secured passage...
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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 and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies...
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    political alliance arranged in 60 or 59 BC that lasted until the death of Crassus in the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC; they had no official capacity or function...
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    Livia (category 59 BC births)
    Livia Drusilla (30 January 59 BC – 28 September 29) was Roman empress from 27 BC to AD 14 as the wife of emperor Augustus. She was known as Julia Augusta...
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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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    Cato the Younger (category 1st-century BC Romans)
    consulship in 59 BC. Leaving for Cyprus the next year, he was praised for his honest administration and after his return was elected as praetor for 54 BC. He supported...
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    Livy (category 1st-century BC births)
    Titus Livius (Latin: [ˈtɪtʊs ˈliːwiʊs]; 59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy (/ˈlɪvi/ LIV-ee), was a Roman historian. He wrote a monumental history...
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    Florence (category 59 BC)
    Timeline of Florence Historical affiliations  Roman Republic, 59–27 BC  Roman Empire, 27 BC–AD 285  Western Roman Empire, 285–476  Kingdom of Odoacer, 476–493...
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  • between Julius Caesar, Pompey the Great and Marcus Licinius Crassus (or 59 BC). The Seleucid Empire comes to an end with the last two emperors being murdered...
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    to Claudius): 51 BC – 44 BC, Julius Caesar; disbanded and re-formed by Vespasian as Legio VII Gemina Legio VIII Augusta: 59 BC – 48 BC, Julius Caesar,...
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  • like an early newspaper for the Roman citizenry. The Acta were begun in 59 BC and continued until AD 222. Acta Diurna, also called Acta Populi, Acta Publica...
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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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    emperors as early as the second century BC. The Han dynasty work "The Contract for a Youth", written by Wang Bao in 59 BC, contains the first known reference...
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  • Servilia (mother of Brutus) (category 2nd-century BC births)
    love with Caesar. The relationship between the two probably started in 59 BC, after the death of Servilia's second husband although Plutarch implied...
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    Ptolemy XIV Philopator (category 1st-century BC births)
    Φιλοπάτωρ, Ptolemaios; c. 59 – 44 BC) was a Pharaoh of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, who reigned from 47 until his death in 44 BC. Following the death of...
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  • This article concerns the period 69 BC – 60 BC. October 6 – Roman Republic troops under Lucius Lucullus defeat the army of Tigranes II of Armenia in the...
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  • BC, 107–88 BC) Berenice III, Pharaoh (101–88 BC, 81–80 BC) Ptolemy XI Alexander II, Pharaoh (80 BC) Ptolemy XII Auletes, Pharaoh (80–58 BC, 55–51 BC)...
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    Nola, present-day Italy; her father, a Roman governor and senator, died in 59 BC from natural causes. Her mother later remarried, to the consul Lucius Marcius...
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    Marquis of Haihun (category 59 BC deaths)
    Liu He (Chinese: 劉賀; pinyin: Liú Hè; c. 92 – 8 September 59 BC) was briefly the ninth emperor of the Han dynasty. Originally King (or Prince) of Changyi...
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    Huhanye (category 1st-century BC monarchs in Asia)
    rebelled in 59 BC with the aid of Wushanmu and Woyanqudi Chanyu soon committed suicide, leaving the Xiongnu torn apart by factional strife. By 55 BC, only Huhanye...
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  • Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer (category 59 BC deaths)
    Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer (c. 104 BC59 BC) was a Roman politician who was consul in 60 BC and in the next year opposed Pompey, Caesar, and the...
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  • Lucius Vettius (category 59 BC deaths)
    Lucius Vettius (died 59 BC) was a Roman equestrian informer who informed on the Second Catilinarian conspiracy in 63 BC and later, in 59 BC, denounced a supposed...
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  • his consulship in 59 BC was characterized by military adventurism and political persecution. Julius Caesar was born on 12 July 100 BC into a patrician...
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    Marcus Licinius Crassus (category 110s BC births)
    summer; 70 BC – Consulship of Crassus and Pompey; 65 BC – Crassus is censor with Quintus Lutatius Catulus; 63 BC – Catiline conspiracy; 59 BC – First Triumvirate...
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    Julia (daughter of Caesar) (category 70s BC births)
    conjecture. Caesar broke off this engagement and married her to Pompey in April 59 BC, with whom Caesar sought a strong political alliance in forming the First...
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