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( 2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium)
The 1st century BC started on January 1, 100 BC and ended on December 31, 1 BC. An alternative name for this century is the last century BC. The AD/BC notation does not use a year zero. Scientific notation does, however, uses a minus sign, so '2 BC' is equal to 'year -1'.
Events
- 92 BC Lucullus invades Armenia insinuating the centuries long Roman vs Persian Wars.
- 57 BC Silla is founded in southeastern Korea (traditional date according to Samguk Sagi)
- 53 BC The Parthians defeat the Romans under Crassus in the Battle of Carrhae
- 49 BC January 10: Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon river, precipitating war with Rome
- 44 BC Julius Caesar murdered
- 37 BC Goguryeo is founded in southern Manchuria (traditional date according to Samguk Sagi)
- 31 BC Roman Civil War: Battle of Actium - Off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
- 18 BC Baekje is founded in midwestern Korea (traditional date according to Samguk Sagi)
- The Roman Republic becomes the Roman Empire
- Birth of Jesus of Nazareth See: Chronology of Jesus' birth and death and Anno Domini for further details
Significant persons
Cicero Denouncing Catiline by Cesare Maccari.One of several political conflicts in the Roman Republic during this century
- Burebista, greatest king of Dacia
- Catiline, attempted to overthrow Roman Republic
- Caesar Augustus, Roman emperor
- Cicero, Roman politician and writer
- Cleopatra VII of Egypt, Egyptian ruler
- Herod the Great
- Hillel the Elder, Jewish rabbi
- Horace, Roman poet
- Julius Caesar, Roman politician
- Livy, Roman historian
- Lucretius, Roman philosopher
- Marcus Antonius, Roman politician
- Marcus Junius Brutus, Caesar's adopted son, supposedly killed him
- Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Roman statesman and general
- Sextus Pompeius, pirate
- Ptolemy XIII of Egypt, drowned in Nile
- Ovid, Roman poet
- Virgil, Roman poet
- Spartacus, gladiator
- Sima Qian, Chinese historian
- Tigranes the Great, king of Armenia
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
- Sunspots, first recorded by Chinese
- The Antikythera mechanism is made
- The first dome was built by the romans
- Glass blowing is invented in Roman Syria
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