1st century BC

Centuries:	2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century
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(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium)

The 1st century BC started on January 1, 100 BC and ended on December 31, 1 BC. An alternative name for this century is the last century BC. The AD/BC notation does not use a year zero. Scientific notation does, however, uses a minus sign, so '2 BC' is equal to 'year -1'.

1 Events
2 Significant persons
3 Inventions, discoveries, introductions
4 Decades and years
5 Categories

Events

Bust of Julius Caesar

92 BC Lucullus invades Armenia insinuating the centuries long Roman vs Persian Wars.
57 BC Silla is founded in southeastern Korea (traditional date according to Samguk Sagi)
53 BC The Parthians defeat the Romans under Crassus in the Battle of Carrhae
49 BC January 10: Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon river, precipitating war with Rome
44 BC Julius Caesar murdered
37 BC Goguryeo is founded in southern Manchuria (traditional date according to Samguk Sagi)
31 BC Roman Civil War: Battle of Actium - Off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
18 BC Baekje is founded in midwestern Korea (traditional date according to Samguk Sagi)
The Roman Republic becomes the Roman Empire
Birth of Jesus of Nazareth See: Chronology of Jesus' birth and death and Anno Domini for further details

Significant persons

Cicero Denouncing Catiline by Cesare Maccari.One of several political conflicts in the Roman Republic during this century

An ancient stone tablet depicting Cleopatra VII and Ptolemy XV Philopator Philometor Caesar, Alexandria, Egypt. These two rulers were the last Pharaohs

Burebista, greatest king of Dacia
Catiline, attempted to overthrow Roman Republic
Caesar Augustus, Roman emperor
Cicero, Roman politician and writer
Cleopatra VII of Egypt, Egyptian ruler
Herod the Great
Hillel the Elder, Jewish rabbi
Horace, Roman poet
Julius Caesar, Roman politician
Livy, Roman historian
Lucretius, Roman philosopher
Marcus Antonius, Roman politician
Marcus Junius Brutus, Caesar's adopted son, supposedly killed him
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Roman statesman and general
Sextus Pompeius, pirate
Ptolemy XIII of Egypt, drowned in Nile
Ovid, Roman poet
Virgil, Roman poet
Spartacus, gladiator
Sima Qian, Chinese historian
Tigranes the Great, king of Armenia

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

Sunspots, first recorded by Chinese
The Antikythera mechanism is made
The first dome was built by the romans
Glass blowing is invented in Roman Syria

Decades and years

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90s BC	99 BC	98 BC	97 BC	96 BC	95 BC	94 BC	93 BC	92 BC	91 BC	90 BC
80s BC	89 BC	88 BC	87 BC	86 BC	85 BC	84 BC	83 BC	82 BC	81 BC	80 BC
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10s BC	19 BC	18 BC	17 BC	16 BC	15 BC	14 BC	13 BC	12 BC	11 BC	10 BC
0s BC	9 BC	8 BC	7 BC	6 BC	5 BC	4 BC	3 BC	2 BC	1 BC
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1st BC:	10th BC	9th BC	8th BC	7th BC	6th BC	5th BC	4th BC	3rd BC	2nd BC	1st BC
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