1st century BC
(
2nd millennium BC -
1st millennium BC -
1st millennium)
The 1st century BC started on
January 1,
100 BC and ended on
December 31,
1 BC. An alternative name for this century is the
last century BC. The
AD/BC notation does not use a
year zero. Scientific notation does, however, and uses a minus sign, so '2 BC' is equal to 'year -1'.
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Bust of Julius Caesar |
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92 BC Lucullus invades
Armenia insinuating the centuries long
Roman-Persian Wars.
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57 BC Silla is founded in southeastern Korea (traditional date according to Samguk Sagi)
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53 BC The
Parthians defeat the
Romans under
Crassus in the
Battle of Carrhae*
49 BC January 10:
Julius Caesar crossed the
Rubicon river, precipitating war with
Rome*
44 BC Julius Caesar murdered
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37 BC Goguryeo is founded in southern
Manchuria (traditional date according to Samguk Sagi)
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31 BC Roman Civil War:
Battle of Actium - Off the western coast of
Greece, forces of
Octavian defeat troops under
Mark Antony and
Cleopatra.
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18 BC Baekje is founded in midwestern
Korea (traditional date according to
Samguk Sagi)
* The
Roman Republic becomes the
Roman Empire * Birth of
Jesus of Nazareth See:
Chronology of Jesus' birth and death and
Anno Domini for further details
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Cicero Denouncing Catiline by Cesare Maccari.One of several political conflicts in the Roman Republic during this century |
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Burebista, greatest king of Dacia
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Catiline, attempted to overthrow Roman Republic
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Caesar Augustus,
Roman emperor*
Cicero, Roman politician and writer
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Cleopatra VII of Egypt, Egyptian ruler
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Herod the Great*
Hillel the Elder, Jewish rabbi
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Horace, Roman poet
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Julius Caesar, Roman politician
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Livy, Roman historian
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Lucretius, Roman philosopher
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Marcus Antonius, Roman politician
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Marcus Junius Brutus, Caesar's adopted son, supposedly killed him
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Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Roman statesman and general
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Sextus Pompeius, pirate
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Ptolemy XIII of Egypt, drowned in Nile
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Ovid, Roman poet
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Virgil, Roman poet
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Spartacus, gladiator
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Sima Qian, Chinese historian
*
Tigranes the Great, king of
Armenia*
Sunspots, first recorded by Chinese
* The
Antikythera mechanism is made
* The first
dome was built by the romans
* Glass blowing is invented in
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