47 BC

Year 47 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In this year Julius Caesar was Dictator of the Roman Republic.

 Events 
 Caesar stops a mutiny 
 Caesar invades Africa
 Cleopatra VII promotes her younger brother Ptolemy XIV of Egypt to co-ruler
 Julius Caesar and his ally Cleopatra VII of Egypt defeat the forces of the rival Egyptian Queen Arsinoe IV
 Caesar defeats Pharnaces II of Pontus, king of the Bosporus, in the Battle of Zela
 Feng Yuan becomes consort to Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty

 Births 

 Prince Caesarion of Egypt, later Pharaoh Ptolemy XV (d. 30 BC)

 Deaths 

 Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator, Pharaoh of Egypt (b. 62 or 61 BC)

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