54 BC

__NOTOC__Year 54 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

*Consuls: Appius Claudius Pulcher and Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus.
*Gallic Wars
**July — Julius Caesar's second expedition to Britain: receives nominal submission from the chieftain Cassivellaunus and installs Mandubracius as a friendly king.
**Ambiorix revolts in Gaul.
*Pompey builds the first permanent theatre in Rome.
*Crassus arrives in Syria as proconsul.
*Octavia Minor and Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor married.
*The beginning of the breakup of the First Triumvirate with the death of Caesar's daughter Julia.

Births

*Seneca the Elder (approximate date) — Roman rhetor
*Tibullus (approximate date) — Roman poet

Deaths

*Gaius Valerius Catullus — Roman poet (b. 84 BC)
*Huo Chengjun, Empress of the Han Dynasty of China
*Julia — daughter of Julius Caesar, wife of Pompey (in childbirth)
*Lucius Valerius Flaccus - urban praetor
*Mithridates III, king of Parthia