55 BC
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| Centuries: | 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century |
| Decades: | 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC - 50s BC - 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC
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| Years: | 58 BC 57 BC 56 BC - 55 BC - 54 BC 53 BC 52 BC |
| 55 BC by topic | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 55 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 699 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1898 – -1897 |
| Berber calendar | 896 |
| Buddhist calendar | 490 |
| Burmese calendar | -692 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5454 – 5455 |
| Coptic calendar | -338 – -337 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -62 – -61 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3706 – 3707 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1 – 2 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3047 – 3048 |
| Holocene calendar | 9946 |
| Iranian calendar | 676 BP – 675 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 697 BH – 696 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2279 |
| Thai solar calendar | 489 |
| Imperial calendar | 1 |
Year 55 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Rome
- Consuls: Marcus Licinius Crassus and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus.
- Consuls Marcus Licinius Crassus and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus pass the Lex Trebonia.
- Gallic War
- May—Julius Caesar defeats a Germanic army then massacres the women and children, totaling 430,000 people, somewhere near the Meuse and Rhine Rivers.
- June—Caesar crosses the Rhine River near the modern site of Bonn.
Britain
- August 22 or August 26—Julius Caesar commands the first Roman invasion of Britain, likely a reconnaissance-in-force expedition, in response to the Britons giving military aid to his Gallic enemies. He may also be acting in support of Mandubracius, exiled prince of the Trinovantes, whose father Imanuentius was overthrown and killed by his rival Cassivellaunus around this time. Due to bad weather and revolts in Gaul the expedition achieves little, but the Roman Senate decrees twenty days of thanksgiving when the expedition returns safely to Gaul.
Parthia
- Mithridates III, claimant to the throne of Parthia, supported by Aulus Gabinius, Roman governor of Syria, is defeated by Surena, general under Orodes, in the Battle of Seleucia.
Code Geass universe
- Julius Caesar attempts to invade Britain, but is met with strong resistance from the local tribes, who elect a super-leader: the Celtic King Eowyn, who summarily became first member of the Britannian Imperial Family.
Births
Deaths
- Berenice IV, queen of Egypt (b. 77 BC)
- Lucretius, Roman philosopher (b. c. 99 BC)
- Tigranes the Great, Armenian Emperor (b. c. 140 BC)
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