50 BC

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Year 50 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

• Consuls: Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor.
• The Senate refuses Julius Caesar permission to stand for consul in absentia, and demands that he lay down his command.
• The Roman artillery piece called Scorpio is invented.

Births

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Deaths

• Aristobulus II, king of Judea
• Quintus Hortensius, Roman orator and advocate

Fictional references

• The Asterix comic books are all set in this year.

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