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 various calendars
Gregorian calendar	46 BC XLV BC
Ab urbe condita	708
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 278
- Pharaoh	Cleopatra VII, 6
Ancient Greek era	183rd Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4705
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−638
Berber calendar	905
Buddhist calendar	499
Burmese calendar	−683
Byzantine calendar	5463–5464
Chinese calendar	甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 2651 or 2591 — to — 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 2652 or 2592
Coptic calendar	−329 – −328
Discordian calendar	1121
Ethiopian calendar	−53 – −52
Hebrew calendar	3715–3716
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	11–12
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3055–3056
Holocene calendar	9955
Iranian calendar	667 BP – 666 BP
Islamic calendar	688 BH – 686 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	46 BC XLV BC
Korean calendar	2288
Minguo calendar	1957 before ROC 民前1957年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1513
Seleucid era	266/267 AG
Thai solar calendar	497–498
Tibetan calendar	阳木狗年 (male Wood-Dog) 81 or −300 or −1072 — to — 阴木猪年 (female Wood-Pig) 82 or −299 or −1071

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.

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