57 BCE

57 BCE
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Centuries:	2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century
Decades:	80s BC 70s BC 60s BC - 50s BC - 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC
Years:	60 BC 59 BC 58 BC - 57 BC - 56 BC 55 BC 54 BC

57 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments v • d • e

**57 BC in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	57 BC
Ab urbe condita	697
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1900 – -1899
Berber calendar	894
Buddhist calendar	488
Burmese calendar	-694
Byzantine calendar	5452 – 5453
Chinese calendar	[[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2580/2640) — to — 甲子年 (2581/2641)
Coptic calendar	-340 – -339
Ethiopian calendar	-64 – -63
Hebrew calendar	3704 – 3705
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-1 – 0
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3045 – 3046
Holocene calendar	9944
Iranian calendar	678 BP – 677 BP
Islamic calendar	699 BH – 698 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2277
Thai solar calendar	487
v • d • e

Year 57 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

Consuls: Publius Cornelius Lentulus Spinther and Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos Iunior.
Gallic Wars:
- May — Battle of the Axona: Julius Caesar defeats the forces of the Belgae under King Galba of the Suessiones.
- July — Caesar defeats the Nervii in the Battle of the Sabis.
- September — the siege and capture of Aduatuca (Tongeren) by Caesar.

Parthia

Mithridates III becomes king of Parthia.

Asia

Vikramaditya established Vikram era in 57 BC.
Bak Hyeokgeose becomes the first ruler of the kingdom of Silla (traditional date).
The city of Gwangju (the sixth largest city in South Korea) is founded.

Births

Deaths

Phraates III, king of Parthia
Cleopatra VI of Egypt

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