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| Centuries: | 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century |
| Decades: | 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC - 40s BC - 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC |
| Years: | 48 BC 47 BC 46 BC - 45 BC - 44 BC 43 BC 42 BC |
| 45 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
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| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 45 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 709 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1888 – -1887 |
| Berber calendar | 906 |
| Buddhist calendar | 500 |
| Burmese calendar | -682 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5464 – 5465 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙亥年 (2592/2652) — to —
丙子年(2593/2653) |
| Coptic calendar | -328 – -327 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -52 – -51 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3716 – 3717 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 11 – 12 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3057 – 3058 |
| Holocene calendar | 9956 |
| Iranian calendar | 666 BP – 665 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 686 BH – 685 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2289 |
| Thai solar calendar | 499 |
Year 45 BC was the year the Julian calendar went into effect. According to this calendar, it was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar).
Events
By place
Rome
- Consuls: Gaius Julius Caesar, without colleague.
- Civil War:
- March 17 — In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the younger in the Battle of Munda. Labienus dies in battle, Pompey the younger is executed, but Sextus Pompey escapes to take command of the remnants of the Pompeian fleet.
- The veterans of Julius Caesar's Legions Legio XIII Gemina and Legio X Equestris demobilized. The veterans of the 10th legion are settled in Narbo, while those of the 13th are given somewhat better lands in Italia itself.
- Caesar is named dictator for life.
- Caesar probably writes his Commentaries in this year.
Asia
- Possible first year of the Azes I Era.
Births
- Iullus Antonius, son of Mark Antony and Fulvia; consul 10 BC
- Wang Mang, usurper of the Han Dynasty and Emperor of the Xin Dynasty
Deaths
- February — Tullia, daughter of Cicero
- March 17 — Titus Labienus, killed in the battle of Munda
- March 17 — Publius Attius Varus, killed in the battle of Munda
- April 12 — Gnaeus Pompeius, son of Pompey the Great, executed after the battle of Munda
- December 31 — Quintus Fabius Maximus, consul suffectus 45 BC
