48 BC Facts for Kids

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century
Decades:	70s BC 60s BC 50s BC – 40s BC – 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC
Years:	51 BC 50 BC 49 BC – 48 BC – 47 BC 46 BC 45 BC

48 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	48 BC XLVII BC
Ab urbe condita	706
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 276
- Pharaoh	Cleopatra VII, 4
Ancient Greek era	183rd Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4703
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−640
Berber calendar	903
Buddhist calendar	497
Burmese calendar	−685
Byzantine calendar	5461–5462
Chinese calendar	壬申年 (Water Monkey) 2649 or 2589 — to — 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 2650 or 2590
Coptic calendar	−331 – −330
Discordian calendar	1119
Ethiopian calendar	−55 – −54
Hebrew calendar	3713–3714
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	9–10
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3053–3054
Holocene calendar	9953
Iranian calendar	669 BP – 668 BP
Islamic calendar	690 BH – 689 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2286
Minguo calendar	1959 before ROC 民前1959年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1515
Seleucid era	264/265 AG
Thai solar calendar	495–496
Tibetan calendar	阳水猴年 (male Water-Monkey) 79 or −302 or −1074 — to — 阴水鸡年 (female Water-Rooster) 80 or −301 or −1073

Year 48 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Vatia.

Events

Lucius Calpurnius Piso, consul under Caesar Augustus (d. AD 32)
Consort Ban, Chinese concubine of Emperor Cheng of Han, also a female poet and scholar (d. 6 BC)

for more information, see Category:48 BC deaths.