52 BC

__NOTOC__Year 52 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

*Consuls: Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus.
*Pompey marries Cornelia Metella.
*Milo is tried for the murder of Clodius. Despite Cicero's legal defence ("Pro Milone") he is found guilty and exiled in Massilia (today Marseille).
*Last year of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars
**March — Siege and capture of Avaricum (Bourges).
**April–May — Siege and repulse from Gergovia.
**July — Battle of the Vingeanne, an indecisive battle between Caesar and Vercingetorix.
**July — Siege of Alesia begins.
**October - Romans defeat Gauls led by Vercingetorix at the Battle of Alesia, thus breaking the back of the Gallic insurrection. The final pacification of Gaul is complete the following year.

Births

*Fenestella, Roman historian (approximate date)
*Juba II, king of Numidia

Deaths

*January 18 Publius Clodius Pulcher, murdered on the Appian Way by Titus Annius Milo
*Surena — Parthian General (b. 84 BC)
*Ptolemy XII Auletes, king of Egypt