This page relates to the year -47 Calendrier Julien proleptic.

Events

Egypt

• January 15th: Ptolémée XIII flees and dies as a César combatant with the battle of the Nile (Péluse). His/her young brother Ptolémée XIV Philopator succeeds to him at the age of 11 years and wife his sister Cléopâtre VII which will make it kill in -44.
• Jules César unloads with Alexandria but is besieged in the royal palace. It imposes, the March 27th, with Ptolémée XIV the return to the capacity of Cléopâtre VII, become its mistress.

• a fire devastates the major part of the Bibliothèque of Alexandria. Certain researchers affirm that they would be in fact a deposit books intended for the export which was destroyed during the battle.

Minor Asia

• June 12th: Pharnace II, wire of Mithridate VI, which had benefitted from the civil war between César and Pompée to follow a policy of reconquest is overcome with Zéla by César, from Egypt ( Veni vidi vici ).

Africa

• October: César unloads in Africa with six legions.

Judaea

• the kingdom of Judaea is directly subjected to the Roman empire. The governor Antipater takes the title of procurator. The Roman law extends on Judaea, which is attached to the large Roman province of “Syria-Palestine”. Hyrcan II, supported by César, becomes ethnarque Juifs.
• Antipater names his/her oldest son Phasaél strategist of Jerusalem and its son junior Hérode Ier Large the strategist by Galileo. The success of Hérode as a Galileo causes the jealousy of Hyrcan and the aristocracy. Hérode is summoned to be justified in front of the sanhédrin. Supported by the governor of Syria Sextus César and following an ambiguous intervention of the leader pharisee Saméas (Shemayah?), Hérode is discharged. Sextus César names it strategist of Coelé-Syria and Samarie (-46).

Rome

• Lépide becomes governor of the province of Spain.
• With Rome, Consul At of Q. Fufius Calenus, P. Vatinius

Births in -47

• Properce

• Ptolémée XV, known as Césarion.

Death in -47

• January 15th: Accidental drowning of Ptolémée XIII, brother of Cléopâtre VII, and in conflict with the latter.
• Aulus Gabinius

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