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

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Year 47 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In this year Julius Caesar was Dictator of the Roman Republic.

Events

• Caesar stops a mutiny
• Caesar invades Africa
• Cleopatra VII promotes her younger brother Ptolemy XIV of Egypt to co-ruler
• Julius Caesar and his ally Cleopatra VII of Egypt defeat the forces of the rival Egyptian Queen Arsinoe IV
• Caesar defeats Pharnaces II of Pontus, king of the Bosporus, in the Battle of Zela
• Feng Yuan becomes consort to Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty

Births

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• Prince Caesarion of Egypt, later Pharaoh Ptolemy XV (d. 30 BC)

Deaths

• Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator, Pharaoh of Egypt (b. 62 or 61 BC)