59 BC

__NOTOC__Year 59 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

*Consuls: Gaius Julius Caesar and Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus (known as "the consulship of Julius and Caesar" due to Bibulus' withdrawal from public view to "consult the heavens" in an effort to invalidate Caesar's intended legislation)
*The First Triumvirate: Caesar, Pompey and Crassus form an unofficial alliance (or 60 BC)
*Caesar marries Calpurnia, in Rome
*The colonia of Florentia, modern Florence, founded

Births

*Livy, Roman historian
*Pharaoh Ptolemy XIV of Egypt (or 60 BC) (d. 44 BC)

Deaths

*Prince He of Changyi, former Emperor of the Han Dynasty of China
*Gaius Octavius, father of Caesar Augustus (b. c. 100 BC)