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Millennium:
1st millennium BC
Centuries:
2nd century BC
1st century BC
1st century
Decades:
70s BC
60s BC
50s BC
40s BC
30s BC
Years:
59 BC
58 BC
57 BC
56 BC
55 BC
54 BC
53 BC
56 BC by topic
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56 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar
56 BC LVI BC
Ab urbe condita
698
Ancient Egypt era
XXXIII dynasty, 268
- Pharaoh
Ptolemy XII Auletes, 25
Ancient Greek era
181st Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar
4695
Balinese saka calendar
N/A
Bengali calendar
−648
Berber calendar
895
Buddhist calendar
489
Burmese calendar
−693
Byzantine calendar
5453–5454
Chinese calendar
甲子年 (Wood Rat) 2642 or 2435 — to — 乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 2643 or 2436
Coptic calendar
−339 – −338
Discordian calendar
1111
Ethiopian calendar
−63 – −62
Hebrew calendar
3705–3706
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat
1–2
- Shaka Samvat
N/A
- Kali Yuga
3045–3046
Holocene calendar
9945
Iranian calendar
677 BP – 676 BP
Islamic calendar
698 BH – 697 BH
Javanese calendar
N/A
Julian calendar
N/A
Korean calendar
2278
Minguo calendar
1967 before ROC 民前1967年
Nanakshahi calendar
−1523
Seleucid era
256/257 AG
Thai solar calendar
487–488
Tibetan calendar
阳木鼠年 (male Wood-Rat) 71 or −310 or −1082 — to — 阴木牛年 (female Wood-Ox) 72 or −309 or −1081
Year 56 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Republic, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Philippus (or, less frequently, year 698 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 56 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.
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the Gallic Wars. The alliance was restabilized at the Luca Conference in 56BC, after which Crassus and Pompey again served jointly as consuls. Following...
of mutually exclusive proposals raised by different factions in January 56BC, all proposals were unacceptable to at least one party, leading to nothing...
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(59 BC) Pro Flacco (In Defense of Lucius Valerius Flaccus, in the court for extortion) (56BC) Pro Sestio (In Defense of Publius Sestius) (56BC) In Vatinium...
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and Julius Caesar, the so-called First Triumvirate. In March and April 56BC, meetings were held at Ravenna and Luca, in Caesar's province of Cisalpine...
Magnus (Latin: [ˈŋnae̯ʊs pɔmˈpeːi̯ʊs ˈmaŋnʊs]; 29 September 106 BC – 28 September 48 BC), known in English as Pompey (/ˈpɒmpiː/, POM-pee) or Pompey the...
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1st century BC. The distinction between the terms is most clearly established in Cicero's Pro Sestio, a speech given and published in 56BC, where he framed...