1st century BC

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Centuries:	2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century
Decades:	90s BC 80s 70s 60s 50s 40s 30s 20s 10s 0s BC

(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium)

The 1st century BC started on January 1, 100 BC and ended on December 31, 1 BC. An alternative name for this century is the last century BC. The AD/BC notation does not use a year zero. Scientific notation does, however, and uses a minus sign, so '2 BC' is equal to 'year -1'.

1 Events
2 Significant persons
3 Inventions, discoveries, introductions
4 Decades and years

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Events

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Bust of Julius Caesar

92 BC Lucullus invades Armenia insinuating the centuries long Roman-Persian Wars.
57 BC Silla is founded in southeastern Korea (traditional date according to Samguk Sagi)
53 BC The Parthians defeat the Romans under Crassus in the Battle of Carrhae
49 BC January 10: Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon river, precipitating war with Rome
44 BC Julius Caesar murdered
37 BC Goguryeo is founded in southern Manchuria (traditional date according to Samguk Sagi)
31 BC Roman Civil War: Battle of Actium - Off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
18 BC Baekje is founded in midwestern Korea (traditional date according to Samguk Sagi)
The Roman Republic becomes the Roman Empire
Birth of Jesus of Nazareth See: Chronology of Jesus' birth and death and Anno Domini for further details

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Significant persons

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Cicero Denouncing Catiline by Cesare Maccari.One of several political conflicts in the Roman Republic during this century

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An ancient stone tablet depicting Cleopatra VII and Ptolemy XV Philopator Philometor Caesar, Alexandria, Egypt. These two rulers were the last Pharaohs