54 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century
Decades:	80s BC  70s BC  60s BC  – 50s BC –  40s BC  30s BC  20s BC
Years:	57 BC 56 BC 55 BC – 54 BC – 53 BC 52 BC 51 BC

54 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	54 BC
Ab urbe condita	700
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 270
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy XII Auletes, 27
Ancient Greek era	181st Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4697
Bengali calendar	−646
Berber calendar	897
Buddhist calendar	491
Burmese calendar	−691
Byzantine calendar	5455–5456
Chinese calendar	丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 2643 or 2583     — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 2644 or 2584
Coptic calendar	−337 – −336
Discordian calendar	1113
Ethiopian calendar	−61 – −60
Hebrew calendar	3707–3708
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	3–4
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3048–3049
Holocene calendar	9947
Iranian calendar	675 BP – 674 BP
Islamic calendar	696 BH – 695 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2280
Minguo calendar	1965 before ROC 民前1965年
Seleucid era	258/259 AG
Thai solar calendar	489–490

Year 54 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Appius and Ahenobarbus (or, less frequently, year 700 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 54 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: Appius Claudius Pulcher and Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus.
• Gallic Wars:
  • July – Second of Caesar's Invasions of Britain: receives nominal submission from the Tribal chief Cassivellaunus and installs Mandubracius as a friendly king.
  • Winter – Ambiorix revolts in Gaul. He joins with Catuvolcus in an uprising against the Roman army. Caesar's senior officers Lucius Aurunculeius Cotta and Quintus Titurius Sabinus are ambushed by the Eburones, and killed with almost their entire force.
• Pompey builds the first permanent theatre in Rome.
• Crassus arrives in Syria as proconsul.
• Octavia Minor and Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor married.
• The beginning of the breakup of the First Triumvirate with the death of Caesar's daughter Julia.

Births

• Seneca the Elder (approximate date), Roman rhetor (d. c. 39 AD)
• Tibullus (approximate date), Roman poet (d. 19 BC)

Deaths

• July 31 – Aurelia Cotta, mother of Julius Caesar (b. 120 BC)
• Gaius Valerius Catullus, Roman poet (b. 84 BC)
• Huo Chengjun, Empress of the Han Dynasty of China
• Julia, daughter of Julius Caesar, wife of Pompey (in childbirth) (b. 83 BC or 82 BC)
• Lucius Aurunculeius Cotta, Roman legate of Julius Caesar
• Lucius Valerius Flaccus, urban praetor
• Mithridates III, king of Parthia
• Quintus Titurius Sabinus, Roman legate of Julius Caesar

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