48 BC
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Events
- Roman Civil War:
- January 4, Caesar landed at Dyrrhachium (Durazzo)
- March, Antony joined Caesar
- April, Siege of Dyrrhachium
- May, Isauricus, co-consul with Julius Caesar, destroys Caelius's magistrate's chair on his tribunal.
- July 10 - Battle of Dyrrhachium, Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia, he retreats to Thessaly.
- August 9 - Roman Civil War: Battle of Pharsalus - Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.
- Julius Caesar is named consul for a period of five years
- Roman temple to Bellona on the Capitolinus outside Rome is burnt to the ground.
- September 28, Caesar learned that Pompey was assassinated by his own men.
- Siege of Alexandria
- October, Pharnaces, King of Bosporus defeated the Caesarian Domitius Calvinus in the Battle of Nicopolis (or Nikopol)
- December - Battle in Alexandria, Egypt between the forces of the Roman general Julius Caesar and his ally Cleopatra VII of Egypt and those of rival King Ptolemy XIII of Egypt and Queen Arsinoe IV. The latter two are defeated and flee the city, but during the battle part of the Library of Alexandria catches fire and is burned down.
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Births
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Deaths
- September 29 - Pompey, Roman politician (assassinated).
- Titus Annius Milo, Roman politician (died in exile)ca:48 aC
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