• Year 51 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Marcellus and Sulpicius (or, less frequently...
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  • 51 may refer to: 51 (number) The year 51 BC AD 51 1951 2051 51 (film), a 2011 American horror film directed by Jason Connery "Fifty-One", an episode of...
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    Cleopatra (category 69 BC births)
     'Cleopatra father-loving goddess'; 70/69 BC – 10 August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler. A member...
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    Julius Caesar (category 100 BC births)
    through a string of military victories in the Gallic Wars, completed by 51 BC, which greatly extended Roman territory. During this time he both invaded...
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    Ptolemy XII Auletes (category 51 BC deaths)
    c. 117 – 51 BC) was a king of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt who ruled from 80 to 58 BC and then again from 55 BC until his death in 51 BC. He was commonly...
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    Caesar finally subdued the largest part of Gaul in his campaigns of 58 to 51 BC. Roman control of Gaul lasted for five centuries, until the last Roman rump...
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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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    Marcus Claudius Marcellus (c. 95 BC – 45 BC) was a Roman politician who was elected consul in 51 BC. Marcellus was the son of another Marcus Claudius Marcellus...
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    the period from Cleopatra's birth in early 69 BC to her accession to the throne during or before March 51 BC. Cleopatra was born to the reigning pharaoh...
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    Julia Minor (grandmother of Augustus) (category 51 BC deaths)
    Julia Minor (before 100 BC51 BC) was the second of two daughters of Gaius Julius Caesar and Aurelia. She was an elder sister of the dictator Julius...
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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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  • 116–101 BC Ariarathes VIII, 101–96 BC Ariarathes IX, 100-85 BC Ariobarzanes I Philoromaios, 95–c. 63 BC Ariobarzanes II Philopator, c. 63–51 BC Ariobarzanes...
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    Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator (category 60s BC births)
    Ptolemaĩos; c. 62 BC – 13 January 47 BC) was Pharaoh of Egypt from 51 to 47 BC, and one of the last members of the Ptolemaic dynasty (305–30 BC). He was the...
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    Ptolemaic dynasty (category States and territories established in the 4th century BC)
    Philopator", 51–30 BC) ruled jointly with Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator (51–47 BC), Ptolemy XIV (47–44 BC) and Ptolemy XV Caesarion (44–30 BC). Arsinoe IV...
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    Iron Age by Celtic tribes known as Gauls before Rome annexed the area in 51 BC, leading to a distinct Gallo-Roman culture. In the Early Middle Ages, 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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  • Attica (wife of Agrippa) (category 50s BC births)
    Attica (born ca 58–51 BC, perhaps died around 32–29 BC) was the daughter of Cicero's Epicurean friend Titus Pomponius Atticus. She was also the first...
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  • Cappadocia from 93 BC to ca. 63 or 62 BC Ariobarzanes II of Cappadocia, son and successor of Ariobarzanes I, murdered some time before 51 BC Ariobarzanes III...
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    against Rome in the winter of 54–53 BC, and in Caesar's subsequent attempts to annihilate the tribe in 53 and 51 BC. Willy Vanvinckenroye (2001) has suggested...
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  • Servius Sulpicius Rufus (category 100s BC births)
    (c. 105 BC – 43 BC), was a Roman orator and jurist. He was consul in 51 BC. He studied rhetoric with Cicero, accompanying him to Rhodes in 78 BC, though...
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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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  • by Caesar in 57 BC, 4,000 Atrebates participated in the Battle of Alesia in 53, led by their chief Commius. They revolted again in 51 BC, after which they...
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    over other states, either regional or global. In Ancient Greece (ca. 8th BC – AD 6th c.), hegemony denoted the politico-military dominance of the hegemon...
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    Italy and Galatia. Caesar wrote extensively about his Gallic Wars in 58–51 BC. Diodorus Siculus wrote about the Celts of Gaul and Britain in his 1st-century...
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    Area 51 is the common name of a highly classified United States Air Force (USAF) facility within the Nevada Test and Training Range. A remote detachment...
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    Ptolemaic Kingdom (category States and territories established in the 4th century BC)
    Cyprus. In 58 BC Auletes was driven out by the Alexandrian mob, but the Romans restored him to power three years later. He died in 51 BC, leaving the kingdom...
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    Reign of Cleopatra (category 1st century BC in Egypt)
    death of her father, Ptolemy XII Auletes, by March 51 BC. It ended with her suicide in August 30 BC, which also marked the conclusion of the Hellenistic...
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    Gallic Wars (category 50s BC conflicts)
    siege works at the Battle of Alesia crushed the Gallic coalition. In 51 and 50 BC, there was limited resistance, and Caesar's troops mainly engaged in...
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    Quirinius (category 51 BC births)
    Publius Sulpicius Quirinius (c. 51 BC – AD 21), also translated as Cyrenius, was a Roman aristocrat. After the banishment of the ethnarch Herod Archelaus...
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    empire. The wars constituted both the Gallic Wars (58 BC51 BC) and Caesar's civil war (49 BC–45 BC). The Gallic Wars principally took place in the region...
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