48 BC

Decades: 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC - 40s BC - 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC 0s BC 0s

Years: 53 BC 52 BC 51 BC 50 BC 49 BC 48 BC 47 BC 46 BC 45 BC 44 BC 43 BC

• Battle of Pharsalus: Julius Caesar defeats Pompey
• Julius Caesar is named consul for a period of five years
• Roman temple to Bellona on the Capitolinus[?] outside Rome is burnt to the ground.

Births

Deaths

• Pompey, Roman politician
• Titus Annius Milo, Roman politician (died in exile)