48 BC

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:	51 BC 50 BC 49 BC – 48 BC – 47 BC 46 BC 45 BC

48 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	48 BC XLVII BC
Ab urbe condita	706
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 276
- Pharaoh	Cleopatra VII, 4
Ancient Greek era	183rd Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4703
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−640
Berber calendar	903
Buddhist calendar	497
Burmese calendar	−685
Byzantine calendar	5461–5462
Chinese calendar	壬申年 (Water Monkey) 2649 or 2589     — to — 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 2650 or 2590
Coptic calendar	−331 – −330
Discordian calendar	1119
Ethiopian calendar	−55 – −54
Hebrew calendar	3713–3714
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	9–10
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3053–3054
Holocene calendar	9953
Iranian calendar	669 BP – 668 BP
Islamic calendar	690 BH – 689 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2286
Minguo calendar	1959 before ROC 民前1959年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1515
Seleucid era	264/265 AG
Thai solar calendar	495–496
Tibetan calendar	阳水猴年 (male Water-Monkey) 79 or −302 or −1074     — to — 阴水鸡年 (female Water-Rooster) 80 or −301 or −1073

Year 48 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Vatia.

Events

• Caesar besieges Pompey
• Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt
• Library of Alexandria burned by accident in battle
• Yuan becomes emperor of the Han Dynasty

Births

• Lucius Calpurnius Piso, consul under Caesar Augustus (d. AD 32)
• Consort Ban, Chinese concubine of Emperor Cheng of Han, also a female poet and scholar (d. 6 BC)

Deaths

for more information, see Category:48 BC deaths.

• Pompey, Roman politician (b. 106 BC)
• Titus Annius Milo, Roman politician