48 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:	51 BC 50 BC 49 BC – 48 BC – 47 BC 46 BC 45 BC

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Year 48 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Vatia.

Events

• Caesar besieges Pompey
• Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt
• Library of Alexandria burned by accident in battle
• Yuan becomes emperor of the Han Dynasty

Births

• Lucius Calpurnius Piso, consul under Caesar Augustus (d. AD 32)
• Consort Ban, Chinese concubine of Emperor Cheng of Han, also a female poet and scholar (d. 6 BC)

Deaths

• Pompey, Roman politician (b. 106 BC)
• Titus Annius Milo, Roman politician