-52

This page relates to the year -52 Calendrier Julien proleptic.

Events

Beginning of the reign of Ariobarzane III, king of Cappadoce (fine in -42). It is protected from Cicéron and César.
Civil war enters the kings Parthes Mithridate III and Orodès II.

With Rome, Consul At of Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio, Cn. Pompeius Magnus III.
the government of Pompée in Spain is extended for five years.
Law Pompeia against the venality of the electorate (law on aspires to).

the Anarchy reign with Rome. Street battles oppose rival bands. Pompée is addressed to the Senate and is named sine collega (single consul) with an aim of restoring the order.

Brawls on the sacred way at the time of the elections. Cicéron lack to be killed. Alternatively main from the Forum, the bands of Clodius Pulcher and Titus Annius Milon come daily to the hands. As the consular elections could not take place, one names a interroi , Mr. Aemilius Lepidus. The partisans of Clodius then besiege it in its house, prevent it from leaving, and only the arrival of the rival bands of Milon comes to deliver it.
Pumped, of return to Rome, is charged to defend the State. He refuses the dictatorship and takes measures for the election of the consuls. Calvinus and Messala are finally elected after the arrest of the Tribun of the plebs Q. Pompeius Rufus, person in charge of the delay of the elections, on order of the Senate. The two consuls, in front of the disorders, make return a decree which prohibits to the former praetors or to consuls to be named before five years with the government of a province.

January 23rd: Massacre Roman residents of Genabum ( Orleans ) in country Carnute marking the beginning of the general insurection of the Gaulle S under the command of the Arverne Vercingétorix, which links the tribes Gallic are to resist the Roman invader .
Vercingétorix tries to cut the Roman army of its communications with the Italy while going simultaneously against the Narbonnaise, the Éduens and the legions of César on the road of the the Saone. But the celerity of this last thwarts all the plans of Vercingétorix which must be folded up in country Arverne.
Mars: César besieges and takes Avaricum (Bourges) saved by Vercingétorix at the request of the Bituriges, and 40 000 of its inhabitants perish.
June: Failure of César in front of Gergovie, near the city of Nemossos, in country arverne. Its allies, the Éduens of Dumnorix, betray it by massacring all the Romains established on their territory.

Rising of the Parisii and the Bellovaques. Victoire of Titus Labienus with the Battle of Lutèce, defended by Camulogène.
August: The Gallic cavalry is crushed meadows of Dijon. Vercingétorix is withdrawn with Alésia, the citadel of the Mandubiens, with 80 000 men.
September 20th: The Gallic army of help ordered by Vercassivellaunos fails in front of Alésia.
September 27th: Capitulation of Vercingétorix to Alésia after two months of seat. The Gallic ones are definitively overcome and Gaulle is integrated into the Roman Empire.

the inhabitants of Lutèce keep the monopoly of the river trade of the average the Seine.

Varron ( Marcus Terentius Varro ) described the life in old the Rome in its work Antiquitates Rerum Humanarum and Divinarum .
Speech Pro Milone written by Cicéron to defend Titus Annius Milon, judged for the murder of Clodius Pulcher.

Simple: 52 BC

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