50 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century
Decades:	80s BC  70s BC  60s BC  - 50s BC -  40s BC  30s BC  20s BC
Years:	53 BC 52 BC 51 BC - 50 BC - 49 BC 48 BC 47 BC

50 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments v • d • e

50 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	50 BC
Ab urbe condita	704
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1893 – -1892
Berber calendar	901
Buddhist calendar	495
Burmese calendar	-687
Byzantine calendar	5459 – 5460
Chinese calendar	庚午年 (2587/2647) — to — 辛未年 (2588/2648)
Coptic calendar	-333 – -332
Ethiopian calendar	-57 – -56
Hebrew calendar	3711 – 3712
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	6 – 7
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3052 – 3053
Holocene calendar	9951
Iranian calendar	671 BP – 670 BP
Islamic calendar	692 BH – 691 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2284
Thai solar calendar	494
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Year 50 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

• Consuls: Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor.
• The Senate refuses Julius Caesar permission to stand for consul in absentia, and demands that he lay down his command.
• The Roman artillery piece called Scorpio is invented.
• Initiation Rites of the Cult of Bacchus (?), detail of a wall painting in the Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii, is made. (approximate date)

Births

Deaths

• Aristobulus II, king of Judea
• Quintus Hortensius, Roman orator and advocate (b. 114 BC)

Fictional references

• The Asterix comic books are all set in this year.

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