46 BC

Year 46 BC was the last year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Lepidus.

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:	49 BC 48 BC 47 BC – 46 BC – 45 BC 44 BC 43 BC

46 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	46 BC XLV BC
Ab urbe condita	708
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 278
- Pharaoh	Cleopatra VII, 6
Ancient Greek era	183rd Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4705
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−638
Berber calendar	905
Buddhist calendar	499
Burmese calendar	−683
Byzantine calendar	5463–5464
Chinese calendar	甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 2651 or 2591     — to — 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 2652 or 2592
Coptic calendar	−329 – −328
Discordian calendar	1121
Ethiopian calendar	−53 – −52
Hebrew calendar	3715–3716
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	11–12
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3055–3056
Holocene calendar	9955
Iranian calendar	667 BP – 666 BP
Islamic calendar	688 BH – 686 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	46 BC XLV BC
Korean calendar	2288
Minguo calendar	1957 before ROC 民前1957年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1513
Seleucid era	266/267 AG
Thai solar calendar	497–498
Tibetan calendar	阳木狗年 (male Wood-Dog) 81 or −300 or −1072     — to — 阴木猪年 (female Wood-Pig) 82 or −299 or −1071

Events

• Titus Labienus defeated Julius Caesar in the Battle of Ruspina.
• Julius Caesar defeated the combined army of Pompeian followers and Numidians at Thapsus.
• Caesar leaves for Farther Hispania to deal with rebellion in Rome.
• Caesar changes the Roman calendar to create the Julian calendar. The Julian Calendar remains the standard in the western world until the Gregorian Calendar in 1582.
• Caesar appoints his nephew Octavian his heir.

Births

for more information, see Category:46 BC births.

• Publius Quinctilius Varus, Roman politician (d. 9 AD)

Deaths

for more information, see Category:46 BC deaths.

• Cato the Younger (Marcus Porcius Cato) (b. 95 BC)
• Metellus Scipio (b. c. 100 BC)
• Vercingetorix, Gaul leader