59 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century
Decades:	80s BC 70s BC 60s BC - 50s BC - 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC
Years:	62 BC 61 BC 60 BC - 59 BC - 58 BC 57 BC 56 BC

59 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments v • d • e

**59 BC in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	59 BC
Ab urbe condita	695
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1902 – -1901
Berber calendar	892
Buddhist calendar	486
Burmese calendar	-696
Byzantine calendar	5450 – 5451
Chinese calendar	[[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2578/2638) — to — [[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2579/2639)
Coptic calendar	-342 – -341
Ethiopian calendar	-66 – -65
Hebrew calendar	3702 – 3703
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-3 – -2
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3043 – 3044
Holocene calendar	9942
Iranian calendar	680 BP – 679 BP
Islamic calendar	701 BH – 700 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2275
Thai solar calendar	485
v • d • e

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

[edit] Events

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

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