__NOTOC__ Year 45 BC was either a

common year starting on Thursday A common year starting on Thursday is any non-leap year (i.e. a year with 365 days) that begins on Thursday, 1 January, and ends on Thursday, 31 December. Its dominical letter hence is D. The most recent year of such kind was 2015 and the next one ...

, Friday or Saturday or a leap year starting on Friday or Saturday (link will display the full calendar) (the sources differ, see leap year error for further information) and the first year of the Julian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Proleptic Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar without Colleague (or, less frequently, year 709 ''

Ab urbe condita ''Ab urbe condita'' ( 'from the founding of the City'), or ''anno urbis conditae'' (; 'in the year since the city's founding'), abbreviated as AUC or AVC, expresses a date in years since 753 BC, the traditional founding of Rome. It is an exp ...

''). The denomination 45 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.

Events

By place

Roman Republic

* Consuls: Gaius Julius Caesar, without colleague. * January 1 – The Julian calendar takes effect as the civil calendar of the Roman Empire, establishing a solar calendar that is based on the Egyptian calendar of the day. * March 17 – Civil War: In his last victory,

Julius Caesar Gaius Julius Caesar (; ; 12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war, and ...

defeats the

Pompeian Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (; 29 September 106 BC – 28 September 48 BC), known in English as Pompey or Pompey the Great, was a leading Roman general and statesman. He played a significant role in the transformation of ...

forces of Titus Labienus and

Pompey the younger Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (ca. 75 BC – 12 April 45 BC) was a Roman politician and general from the late Republic (1st century BC). Biography Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus was the elder son of Pompey the Great (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) by his third wife ...

in the Battle of Munda. Labienus dies in battle,

is executed, but Sextus Pompey escapes to take command of the remnants of the Pompeian fleet. * The veterans of

's Legions '' Legio XIII Gemina'' and ''

Legio X Equestris Legio X ''Equestris'', a Roman legion, was levied by Julius Caesar in 61 BC when he was the Governor of Hispania Ulterior. The Tenth was the first legion levied personally by Caesar and was consistently his most trusted. Legio X was famous in i ...

'' demobilize. The veterans of the 10th legion are settled in Narbo, while those of the 13th are given somewhat better lands in Italia itself. * Caesar is named dictator for life. * Caesar probably writes his ''Commentaries'' in this year.

Asia

* Possible first year of the Azes I Era.

Births

* Iullus Antonius, son of Mark Antony and Fulvia; consul

10 BC 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1 ...

(d.

2 BC __NOTOC__ Year 2 BC was a common year starting on Thursday or Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar (the sources differ, see leap year error for further information) and a common year starting on Wednesday of the P ...

) * Wang Mang, usurper of the Han Dynasty and Emperor of the Xin Dynasty (d. AD 23)

Deaths

* February – Tullia, daughter of Cicero (b. 79 BC or

78 BC __NOTOC__ Year 78 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lepidus and Catulus. Later and less frequently, it was known as the year 676 AUC). The denomination 78 BC for this year ...

) * March 17 ** Titus Labienus, Roman general (killed in the Battle of Munda) (b. c.

100 BC __NOTOC__ Year 100 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Marius and Flaccus (or, less frequently, year 654 ''Ab urbe condita'') and the First Year of Tianhan. The denominatio ...

) ** Publius Attius Varus, Roman governor (killed in the Battle of Munda) * April 12 – Gnaeus Pompeius, son of Pompey the Great (executed after the Battle of Munda) * December 31 – Quintus Fabius Maximus, Roman general and politician * Nigidius Figulus, Roman scholar (b. 98 BC) * Publius Cornelius Sulla, Roman politician

References

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