47 BC

Year 47 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Calenius and Vatinius (or, less frequently, year 707 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 47 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC 1st century BC 1st century
Decades:	60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC
Years:	50 BC 49 BC 48 BC 47 BC 46 BC 45 BC 44 BC

47 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	47 BC XLVII BC
Ab urbe condita	707
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 277
- Pharaoh	Cleopatra VII, 5
Ancient Greek era	183rd Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4704
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−639
Berber calendar	904
Buddhist calendar	498
Burmese calendar	−684
Byzantine calendar	5462–5463
Chinese calendar	癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 2651 or 2444     — to — 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 2652 or 2445
Coptic calendar	−330 – −329
Discordian calendar	1120
Ethiopian calendar	−54 – −53
Hebrew calendar	3714–3715
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	10–11
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3054–3055
Holocene calendar	9954
Iranian calendar	668 BP – 667 BP
Islamic calendar	689 BH – 688 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2287
Minguo calendar	1958 before ROC 民前1958年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1514
Seleucid era	265/266 AG
Thai solar calendar	496–497
Tibetan calendar	阴水鸡年 (female Water-Rooster) 80 or −301 or −1073     — to — 阳木狗年 (male Wood-Dog) 81 or −300 or −1072

Events

By place

Roman Republic

• Consuls: Quintus Fufius Calenus, Publius Vatinius.
• Julius Caesar returns to Rome and is dictator for a year.
• Civil War:
  • August – Julius Caesar leads victory against Pharnaces II of Pontus and at the Battle of Zela.
  • August – Julius Caesar quells a mutiny of his veterans in Rome.
  • October – Caesar's invasion of Africa, against Metellus Scipio and Labienus, Caesar's former lieutenant in Gaul.

Egypt

• January 13 – Queen Cleopatra VII promotes her younger brother Ptolemy XIV of Egypt to co-ruler.
• February – Caesar and his ally Cleopatra VII of Egypt defeat the forces of the rival Egyptian Queen Arsinoe IV in the Battle of the Nile. Ptolemy is killed; Caesar, with the aid of Mithridates I of the Bosporus, then relieves his besieged forces in Alexandria.

Anatolia

• August 2 – Caesar defeats Pharnaces II of Pontus, king of the Bosphorus, in the Battle of Zela (the war Caesar tersely describes as veni, vidi, vici).

Judea

• Battle at Mount Tabor in Judea: Roman troops, commanded by Gabinius, defeat the forces of Alexander, son of Aristobulus II of Judea, who is attempting to re-establish Judean independence. Some 10,000 Jews die at the hands of the Romans.

China

• Feng Yuan becomes consort to Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty.

Births

• June 23 – Caesarion, prince of Egypt, later Ptolemy XV (d. 30 BC)
• Marcus Antonius Antyllus, son of Mark Antony and Fulvia (d. 30 BC)

Deaths

• Pharnaces II of Pontus, king of the Bosporan Kingdom (b. c. 97 BC)
• Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator, king of Egypt (drowned in the Nile)
• Alexander, Hasmonean prince (executed)