52 BC

52 BC

__NOTOC__Year 52 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

*Consuls: Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus.
*Pompey marries Cornelia Metella.
*Milo is tried for the murder of Clodius. Despite Cicero's legal defence ("Pro Milone") he is found guilty and exiled in Massilia (today Marseille).
*Last year of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars
**MarchSiege and capture of Avaricum (Bourges).
**AprilMaySiege and repulse from Gergovia.
**JulyBattle of the Vingeanne, an indecisive battle between Caesar and Vercingetorix.
**JulySiege of Alesia begins.
**October - Romans defeat Gauls led by Vercingetorix at the Battle of Alesia, thus breaking the back of the Gallic insurrection. The final pacification of Gaul is complete the following year.

Births

*Fenestella, Roman historian (approximate date)
*Juba II, king of Numidia

Deaths

*January 18 Publius Clodius Pulcher, murdered on the Appian Way by Titus Annius Milo
*SurenaParthian General (b. 84 BC)
*Ptolemy XII Auletes, king of Egypt


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