47 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century
Decades:	70s BC  60s BC  50s BC  – 40s BC –  30s BC  20s BC  10s BC
Years:	50 BC 49 BC 48 BC – 47 BC – 46 BC 45 BC 44 BC

47 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	47 BC
Ab urbe condita	707
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 277
- Pharaoh	Cleopatra VII, 5
Ancient Greek era	183rd Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4704
Bengali calendar	−639
Berber calendar	904
Buddhist calendar	498
Burmese calendar	−684
Byzantine calendar	5462–5463
Chinese calendar	癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 2650 or 2590     — to — 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 2651 or 2591
Coptic calendar	−330 – −329
Discordian calendar	1120
Ethiopian calendar	−54 – −53
Hebrew calendar	3714–3715
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	10–11
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3055–3056
Holocene calendar	9954
Iranian calendar	668 BP – 667 BP
Islamic calendar	689 BH – 688 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2287
Minguo calendar	1958 before ROC 民前1958年
Seleucid era	265/266 AG
Thai solar calendar	496–497

Year 47 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Calenius and Vatinius (or, less frequently, year 707 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 47 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Roman Republic

• Consuls: Quintus Fufius Calenus, Publius Vatinius.
• Civil War:
  • August – Caesar quells a mutiny of his veterans in Rome.
  • October – Caesar's invasion of Africa, against Metellus Scipio and Labienus, Caesar's former lieutenant in Gaul.

Egypt

• January 13 – Pharaoh Cleopatra VII promotes her younger brother Ptolemy XIV of Egypt to co-ruler.
• February – Roman general Julius Caesar and his ally Cleopatra VII of Egypt defeat the forces of the rival Egyptian Queen Arsinoe IV in the Battle of the Nile. Ptolemy is killed; Caesar, with the aid of Mithridates I of the Bosporus, then relieves his besieged forces in Alexandria.
• September 2 – Pharaoh Cleopatra VII promotes her son Caesarion to co-ruler.

Anatolia

• August 2 – Caesar defeats Pharnaces II of Pontus, king of the Bosphorus, in the Battle of Zela (the war Caesar tersely describes as veni, vidi, vici).

Judea

• Battle at Mount Tabor in Judea: Roman troops, commanded by Gabinius, defeat the forces of Alexander, son of Aristobulus II of Judea, attempting to re-establish Judean independence. Some 10,000 Jews died at the hands of the Romans.

China

• Feng Yuan becomes consort to Emperor Yuan of the Han dynasty.

Births

• June 23 – Prince Caesarion of Egypt, later Pharaoh Ptolemy XV (d. 30 BC)
• Marcus Antonius Antyllus, son of Mark Antony and Fulvia (d. 30 BC)

Deaths

• January 13 – Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII of Egypt (drowned in the Nile) (b. 62 or 61 BC)
• Pharnaces II of Pontus (b. c. 97 BC)

References