47 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:	50 BC 49 BC 48 BC – 47 BC – 46 BC 45 BC 44 BC

47 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	47 BC
Ab urbe condita	707
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4704
Bahá'í calendar	-1890–-1889
Bengali calendar	-639
Berber calendar	904
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	498
Burmese calendar	-684
Byzantine calendar	5462–5463
Chinese calendar	癸酉年 (2590/2650) — to — 甲戌年 (2591/2651)
Coptic calendar	-330–-329
Ethiopian calendar	-54–-53
Hebrew calendar	3714–3715
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	10–11
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3055–3056
Holocene calendar	9954
Iranian calendar	668 BP – 667 BP
Islamic calendar	689 BH – 688 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2287
Minguo calendar	1958 before ROC 民前1958年
Thai solar calendar	497

Year 47 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In this year Julius Caesar was Dictator of the Roman Republic.

Events

• Caesar stops a mutiny
• Caesar invades Africa
• Cleopatra VII promotes her younger brother Ptolemy XIV of Egypt to co-ruler
• Julius Caesar and his ally Cleopatra VII of Egypt defeat the forces of the rival Egyptian Queen Arsinoe IV
• Caesar defeats Pharnaces II of Pontus, king of the Bosporus, in the Battle of Zela
• Feng Yuan becomes consort to Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty

Births

for more information, see Category:47 BC births.

• Prince Caesarion of Egypt, later Pharaoh Ptolemy XV (d. 30 BC)

Deaths

• Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator, Pharaoh of Egypt (b. 62 or 61 BC)