47 BC

__NOTOC__Year 47 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

*Consuls: Quintus Fufius Calenus, Publius Vatinius.
*Civil War:
**February — Roman general Julius Caesar and his ally Cleopatra VII of Egypt defeat the forces of the rival Egyptian Queen Arsinoe IV in the Battle of the Nile. Ptolemy is killed; Caesar then relieves his besieged forces in Alexandria.
**May — Caesar defeats Pharnaces II of Pontus, king of the Bosporus, in the Battle of Zela (this is the war that Caesar tersely described "veni, vidi, vici").
**Pharaoh Cleopatra VII promotes her younger brother Ptolemy XIV of Egypt to co-ruler.
**August, Caesar quells a mutiny of his veterans in Rome.
**October, Caesar's invasion of Africa, against Metellus Scipio and Labienus, Caesar's former lieutenant in Gaul.

Asia

*Feng Yuan becomes consort to Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty.

Births

*June 23 — Prince Caesarion of Egypt, later Pharaoh Ptolemy XV
*Marcus Antonius Antyllus, son of Mark Antony and Fulvia

Deaths

*January 13 — Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII of Egypt (drowned in the Nile)
*Pharnaces II of Pontus