50 BC

Year 50 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Paullus and Marcellus.

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century
Decades:	80s BC  70s BC  60s BC  – 50s BC –  40s BC  30s BC  20s BC
Years:	53 BC 52 BC 51 BC – 50 BC – 49 BC 48 BC 47 BC

Events

• The Senate demands that Julius Caesar ends his command
• The Roman Republic takes control over Judea

Deaths

• Aristobulus II, king of Judea
• Quintus Hortensius, Roman orator and advocate (b. 114 BC)

In fiction

• The Asterix comic books all take place in this year