59 BC

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Contents

Events

By place

Rome

Births

Deaths

Events

By place

Rome

★ Consuls: Gaius Julius Caesar and Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus (known as "the consulship of Julius and Caesar" due to Caesar's infamous suppression of his colleague)

★ The First Triumvirate: Caesar, Pompey and Crassus form an unofficial alliance (or 60 BC)

★ Caesar marries Calpurnia, in Rome

★ The colonia of Florentia, modern Florence, founded

Births

★ Livy, Roman historian

★ Pharaoh Ptolemy XIV of Egypt (or 60 BC)

Deaths

★ Prince He of Changyi, former Emperor of the Han Dynasty of China

★ Gaius Octavius, father of Caesar Augustus