46 BC

Year 46 BC was the last year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Lepidus.

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:	49 BC 48 BC 47 BC – 46 BC – 45 BC 44 BC 43 BC

Events

• Titus Labienus defeated Julius Caesar in the Battle of Ruspina.
• Julius Caesar defeated the combined army of Pompeian followers and Numidians at Thapsus.
• Caesar leaves for Farther Hispania to deal with rebellion in Rome.
• Caesar changes the Roman calendar to create the Julian calendar. The Julian Calendar remains the standard in the western world until the Gregorian Calendar in 1582.
• Caesar appoints his nephew Octavian his heir.

Births

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• Publius Quinctilius Varus, Roman politician (d. 9 AD)

Deaths

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• Cato the Younger (Marcus Porcius Cato) (b. 95 BC)
• Metellus Scipio (b. c. 100 BC)
• Vercingetorix, Gaul leader