56 BC

Year 56 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Republic, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Philippus (or, less frequently, year 698 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 56 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
56 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar56 BC
LV BC
Ab urbe condita698
Ancient Egypt eraXXXIII dynasty, 268
- PharaohPtolemy XII Auletes, 25
Ancient Greek era181st Olympiad (victor
Assyrian calendar4695
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−648
Berber calendar895
Buddhist calendar489
Burmese calendar−693
Byzantine calendar5453–5454
Chinese calendar甲子年 (Wood Rat)
2641 or 2581
     to 
乙丑年 (Wood Ox)
2642 or 2582
Coptic calendar−339 – −338
Discordian calendar1111
Ethiopian calendar−63 – −62
Hebrew calendar3705–3706
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1–2
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga3045–3046
Holocene calendar9945
Iranian calendar677 BP – 676 BP
Islamic calendar698 BH – 697 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar2278
Minguo calendar1967 before ROC
民前1967年
Nanakshahi calendar−1523
Seleucid era256/257 AG
Thai solar calendar487–488
Tibetan calendar阳木鼠年
(male Wood-Rat)
71 or −310 or −1082
     to 
阴木牛年
(female Wood-Ox)
72 or −309 or −1081

Events

Roman Republic

  • Roman Consuls are Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus and Lucius Marcius Philippus.
  • Clodia accuses her former lover Marcus Caelius Rufus of trying to poison her. The trial ends with the defendant acquitted thanks to the Pro Caelio speech of Cicero. There is no further mention of the previously famous Clodia.
  • Third year of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars:
    • Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus , one of Caesar's subordinates, defeats the Veneti of Brittany: The Gauls lose most of their warships to the Romans in a sea battle at modern-day Quiberon Bay. The strongholds on the coast are stormed, and the population is slaughtered or sold into slavery.
    • Autumn Julius Caesar leads an attack on the Morini and the Menapii tribes of the Belgae on the North Sea. They withdraw into their forests, creating difficulties for Caesar's supply lines. The onset of bad weather forces him to pull back into Gallia Belgica.[1]

Britain

  • This year, or possibly the following year, the king of the Trinovantes called Imanuentius, is overthrown and killed by his rival Cassivellaunus. His son Mandubracius flees to Gaul and appeals to Julius Caesar for help.

Births

Deaths

References

  1. Nic Fields (2014). Osprey: Alesia 52 BC – The final struggle for Gaul, p. 14. ISBN 978-1-78200-922-1.
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