46 BC facts for kids

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:	49 BC 48 BC 47 BC – 46 BC – 45 BC 44 BC 43 BC

46 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	46 BC
Ab urbe condita	708
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4705
Bahá'í calendar	-1889–-1888
Bengali calendar	-638
Berber calendar	905
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	499
Burmese calendar	-683
Byzantine calendar	5463–5464
Chinese calendar	甲戌年 (2591/2651) — to — 乙亥年 (2592/2652)
Coptic calendar	-329–-328
Ethiopian calendar	-53–-52
Hebrew calendar	3715–3716
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	11–12
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3056–3057
Holocene calendar	9955
Iranian calendar	667 BP – 666 BP
Islamic calendar	688 BH – 686 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2288
Minguo calendar	1957 before ROC 民前1957年
Thai solar calendar	498

Year 46 BC was the last year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Lepidus.

Events

• Titus Labienus defeated Julius Caesar in the Battle of Ruspina.
• Julius Caesar defeated the combined army of Pompeian followers and Numidians at Thapsus.
• Caesar leaves for Farther Hispania to deal with rebellion in Rome.
• Caesar changes the Roman calendar to create the Julian calendar. The Julian Calendar remains the standard in the western world until the Gregorian Calendar in 1582.
• Caesar appoints his nephew Octavian his heir.

Births

for more information, see Category:46 BC births.

• Publius Quinctilius Varus, Roman politician (d. 9 AD)

Deaths

for more information, see Category:46 BC deaths.

• Cato the Younger (Marcus Porcius Cato) (b. 95 BC)
• Metellus Scipio (b. c. 100 BC)
• Vercingetorix, Gaul leader