48 BC

Year 48 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and  Vatia.

Events
 Caesar besieges Pompey
 Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt 
 Library of Alexandria burned by accident in battle
 Yuan becomes emperor of the Han Dynasty

 Births 

 Lucius Calpurnius Piso, consul under Caesar Augustus (d. AD 32)
 Consort Ban, Chinese concubine of Emperor Cheng of Han, also a female poet and scholar (d. 6 BC)

 Deaths 

 Pompey, Roman politician (b. 106 BC)
 Titus Annius Milo, Roman politician

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