55 BC

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Events

• Roman Republic
• *Consuls: Marcus Licinius Crassus and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
• *Gallic Wars
• **May - Julius Caesar defeats a Germanic army then massacres the women and children, totalling 430,000 people, somewhere near the Meuse and Rhine Rivers.
• **June - Caesar crosses the Rhine River near the modern site of Bonn
• **August - Julius Caesar commands the first Roman invasion of Britain. Due to bad weather and revolts in Gaul the expedition achieves little, but the Roman Senate decrees twenty days of thanksgiving.
• *Parthian war
• **Mithridates, claimant to the throne of Parthia, supported by Aulus Gabinius, Roman governor of Syria, is defeated by Surena, general under Orodes, in the Battle of Seleucia

Births

Deaths

• Berenice IV, queen of Egypt
• Lucretius, Roman philosopher

 

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