54 BC

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Contents

Events

By place

Rome

Births

Deaths

Events

By place

Rome

★ Consuls: Appius Claudius Pulcher and Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus.

★ Gallic Wars

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★ July — Julius Caesar's second expedition to Britain: receives nominal submission from the chieftain Cassivellaunus and installs Mandubracius as a friendly king.

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★ 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