54 BC

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Year 54 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

• Consuls: Appius Claudius Pulcher and Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus.
• Gallic Wars
• July — Julius Caesar's second expedition to Britain: receives nominal submission from the chieftain Cassivellaunus and installs Mandubracius as a friendly king.
• Ambiorix revolts in Gaul.
• Pompey builds the first permanent theatre in Rome.
• Crassus arrives in Syria as proconsul.
• Octavia Minor and Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor married.
• The beginning of the breakup of the First Triumvirate with the death of Caesar's daughter Julia.

Births

• Seneca the Elder (approximate date) — Roman rhetor
• Tibullus (approximate date) — Roman poet

Deaths

• Gaius Valerius Catullus — Roman poet (b. 84 BC)
• Huo Chengjun, Empress of the Han Dynasty of China
• Julia — daughter of Julius Caesar, wife of Pompey (in childbirth)
• Lucius Valerius Flaccus - urban praetor
• Mithridates III, king of Parthia

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