49 BC

Year 49 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Marcellus.

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:	52 BC 51 BC 50 BC – 49 BC – 48 BC 47 BC 46 BC

Events

• The Great Roman Civil War begins

Deaths

• Xuan, emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty (b. 91 BC)
• Zheng Ji, general during the Han Dynasty