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* 46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato ( Cato the Younger ) in the battle of Thapsus.
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In 46 BC, she consented for him to join Caesar in Hispania, where he planned to fight the forces of Pompey, Caesar's late enemy, but Octavius fell ill and was unable to travel.
The Julian calendar is a reform of the Roman calendar introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC ( 708 AUC ).
During this time, Caesar was elected to his third and fourth terms as consul in 46 BC and 45 BC ( this last time without a colleague ).
To bring the calendar into alignment with the seasons, he decreed that three extra months be inserted into 46 BC ( the ordinary intercalary month at the end of February, and two extra months after November ).
In 48 BC, he was re-appointed dictator, only this time for an indefinite period, and in 46 BC, he was appointed dictator for ten years.
In 46 BC, Caesar gave himself the title of " Prefect of the Morals ", which was an office that was new only in name, as its powers were identical to those of the censors.
Plutarch ( AD 46 – 120 ) wrote that during his visit to Alexandria in 48 BC Julius Caesar accidentally burned the library down when he set fire to his own ships to frustrate Achillas ' attempt to limit his ability to communicate by sea.
In 46 BC he seems to have taken offense because Caesar insisted on payment for the property of Pompey which Antony professedly had purchased, but had in fact simply appropriated.
In Latin, septem means " seven " and septimus means " seventh "; September was in fact the seventh month of the Roman calendar until 46 BC, when the first month changed from Kalendas Martius ( 1 March ) to Kalendas Januarius ( 1 January ).
The main literary sources for Servius ' life and achievements are the Roman historian Livy ( 59 BC – AD 17 ), his near contemporary Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Plutarch ( c. 46 – 120 AD ); their own sources included works by Quintus Fabius Pictor, Diocles of Peparethus and Quintus Ennius.
Of the sites involved in Caesar's civil war, we find the Siege of Massilia 49 BC, the Battle of Dyrrhachium of 48 BC ( modern Albania ), the Battle of Pharsalus 48 BC ( Hellas-Greece ), the Battle of Zela of 47 BC ( modern Turkey ) and the Battle of Thapsus 46 BC in Caesar's African campaign.
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In the First Test ( the first played at Edgbaston ), after scoring 376 England bowled out Australia for 36 ( Wilfred Rhodes 7 / 17 ) and reduced them to 46 – 2 when they followed on.
" The Annales and the History of Technology ," Technology and Culture, Volume 46, Number 1, January 2005, pp. 177 – 186 in Project Muse
* 1946 – Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Land ( state ) of Schleswig-Holstein.
The standard for these progress reports is in 2: 46 – 47, where Luke describes the impact of the gospel on the new church in Jerusalem.
The Liberal Democrats could point to steady progress under Charles Kennedy, gaining more seats than the main two parties – albeit only six overall – and maintaining the performance of a pleasing 1997 election, where the party doubled its number of seats from 20 to 46.
In its first-ever home opener at Memorial Stadium later in the afternoon, they treated a sellout crowd of 46, 354 to a 3 – 1 victory over the Chicago White Sox.
The team took a risk by recording and releasing the song before the playoffs had even begun, but were able to avoid embarrassment by going on to win Super Bowl XX by a then-record margin of 46 – 10.
In 2000, the Indians had a 44 – 42 start, but caught fire after the All Star break and went 46 – 30 the rest of the way to finish 90 – 72.
) During the collapse, neutrons are formed by the capture of electrons by protons in the process of electron capture, leading to the emission of neutrinos .< sup >, pp. 1046 – 1047 .</ sup > The decrease in gravitational potential energy of the collapsing core releases a large amount of energy which is on the order of 10 < sup > 46 </ sup > joules ( 100 foes ).
* Slater, Don 2002, ' Social Relationships and Identity Online and Offline ', in L. Lievrouw and S. Livingston ( eds ), The Handbook of New Media, Sage, London, pp533 – 46.
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Vercingetorix ( or ; ); 82 BC – 46 BC ) was the chieftain of the Arverni tribe, who united the Gauls in an ultimately unsuccessful revolt against Roman forces during the last phase of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars.
* Plutarch writes his Parallel Lives of Famous Men ( in Greek Βίοι Παράλληλοι ) containing fifty biographies, of which 46 are presented as pairs comparing Greek and Roman celebrities — for example Theseus and Romulus, Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, Demosthenes and Cicero.
The best-known example is the year 46 BC: as part of the reform that initiated the Julian calendar of that name, 46 BC was allotted 445 days by Julius Caesar.
In 46 BC, his father committed suicide as he was defeated by Julius Caesar ( in Thapsus, North Africa ) and Numidia became a Roman Province.
In 46 B. C., the Roman Senate voted to build and dedicate a shrine to Libertas in recognition of Julius Caesar, but no temple was built ; instead, a small statue of the goddess stood in the Roman Forum.
The building was designed by “ Baldwin and Pennington, Architects ” and was built by local contractor, Julius C. Holmes, for $ 46, 500.
After Julius Caesar reformed the calendar in 46 BC and was subsequently murdered, the Roman Senate voted to deify him on the 1st January 42 BC in honor of his life and his institution of the new rationalized calendar.
Lucius Cispius, probably with the cognomen Laevus, was a commander of the fleet ( praefectus classis ) in 46 BC, serving under Julius Caesar.
In 46 BC, Julius Caesar defeated Metellus Scipio and the Numidian King Juba with a tremendous loss of men near Thapsus ( see Battle of Thapsus ).
* Gaius Julius C. f. C. n. Caesar, consul in 59, 48, 46, 45, and 44 BC, dictator in 49, and from 47 to 44 BC.
" This alleged homosexual liaison must have taken place in 46 BC during the civil wars when Julius Caesar took Augustus to Spain and Aulus Hirtius was serving there.
Cato's Letters were essays by British writers John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, first published from 1720 to 1723 under the pseudonym of Cato ( 95 – 46 BC ), the implacable foe of Julius Caesar and a famously stubborn champion of republican principles.
Later, with the removal of King Juba I and the remaining supporters of Pompey in Africa ( c. 46 ), Julius Caesar gave special rights to the citizens of Cirta, now known as Colonia Sittlanorum.
The town was elevated to colonial rank between 46 – 45 BC as the tenth region of the Roman Empire, under Julius Caesar.
The first known naumachia was given by Julius Caesar in Rome in 46 BC on occasion of his quadruple triumph.
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