49 BC

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Consuls: Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Crus, Gaius Claudius Marcellus Maior.

★ The Great Roman Civil War commences


January 1 — The Roman Senate receives a proposal from Julius Caesar that he and Pompey should lay down their commands simultaneously. The Senate responds that Caesar must immediately surrender his command.


January 10Julius Caesar leads his army across the Rubicon, which separates his jurisdiction (Cisalpine Gaul) from that of the Senate (Italy), and thus initiates a civil war. In response, the Roman senate invokes the ''senatus consultum ultimum''.


★ February — Pompey's flight to Epirus (in Western Greece) with most of the Senate.


March 9 — Caesar advances against Pompeian forces in Spain.


April 19 — Caesar's siege of Massilia against the Pompeian Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus; the siege was conducted later by Caesarian Gaius Trebonius.


★ June — Caesar arrives in Spain; seizes the Pyrenees passes against the Pompeians L. Afranius and Marcus Petreius.


June 7Cicero slips out of Italy and goes to Salonika.


July 30 — Caesar surrounds Afranius and Petreius's army in Ilerda.


August 2 — Pompeians in Ilerda surrender to Caesar.


August 24 — Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in North Africa by the Pompeians under Attius Varus and King Juba I of Numidia (whom he defeated earlier in the Battle of Utica), in the Battle of the Bagradas River, and commits suicide.


★ September — Decimus Brutus, a Caesarian, defeats the combined Pompeian-Massilian naval forces in the naval Battle of Massilia, while the Caesarian fleet in the Adriatic is defeated near Curicta (Krk).


September 6 — Massilia surrendered to Caesar, coming back from Spain.


★ October — Caesar appointed Dictator in Rome.

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