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1st century
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58 BC
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57 BC
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56 BC
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- Roman Republic
- --- and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
- --- Gallic Wars
--May - Julius Caesar defeats a Germanic army then massacres the women and children, totalling 430,000 people, somewhere near the Meuse and Rhine Rivers.
--June - Caesar crosses the Rhine River near the modern site of Bonn
--August - Julius Caesar commands the first Roman invasion of Britain . Due to bad weather and revolts in Gaul the expedition achieves little, but the Roman Senate decrees twenty days of thanksgiving.
- --- Parthia n war
-- Mithridates , claimant to the throne of Parthia, supported by Aulus Gabinius , Roman governor of Syria , is defeated by Surena , general under Orodes , in the Battle Of Seleucia
