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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:	55 BC 54 BC 53 BC – 52 BC – 51 BC 50 BC 49 BC

52 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments v • d • e

52 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	52 BC
Ab urbe condita	702
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1895 – -1894
Bengali calendar	-644
Berber calendar	899
Buddhist calendar	493
Burmese calendar	-689
Byzantine calendar	5457 – 5458
Chinese calendar	戊辰年 (2585/2645) — to — 己巳年 (2586/2646)
Coptic calendar	-335 – -334
Ethiopian calendar	-59 – -58
Hebrew calendar	3709 – 3710
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	4 – 5
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3050 – 3051
Holocene calendar	9949
Iranian calendar	673 BP – 672 BP
Islamic calendar	694 BH – 693 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2282
Thai solar calendar	492
v • d • e

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

[edit] Events

[edit] By place

[edit] 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
  • March—Siege and capture of Avaricum (Bourges).
  • April–May—Siege and repulse from Gergovia.
  • July—Battle of the Vingeanne, an indecisive battle between Caesar and Vercingetorix.
  • July—Siege 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.

[edit] Births

• Fenestella, Roman historian (approximate date)
• Juba II, king of Numidia (d. 23)

[edit] Deaths

• January 18—Publius Clodius Pulcher, murdered on the Appian Way by Titus Annius Milo (b. 93 BC)
• Surena—Parthian General (b. 84 BC)