Gallic War 57 BC–50 BC

Roman Republic ⚔ Gauls, Belgae, Britons (Celtic people), Aquitaine, Germanic peoples, Iberians

Key battles

• Battle of Bibracte (57 BC)
• Battle of the Arar (57 BC)
• Battle of Vosges (57 BC)
• Battle of the Sabis (56 BC)
• Battle of the Axona (56 BC)
• Battle of Octodurus (56 BC)
• Ambiorix's Revolt (53 BC)
• Battle of Alesia (51 BC)
• Battle of Gergovia (51 BC)
• Siege of Avaricum (51 BC)
• Battle of Lutetia (51 BC)

Who lived through the Gallic War

Well-known people alive during 57 BC–50 BC:

• Julius Caesar (99 BC–43 BC) — Roman general and dictator
• Augustus (62 BC–14) — first emperor of the Roman Empire and founder of the Julio-Claudian dynasty
• Virgil (69 BC–18 BC) — Roman poet (1st century BC)
• Cicero (106 BC–42 BC) — Roman statesman, lawyer, orator, and philosopher (106–43 BC)
• Cleopatra (68 BC–29 BC) — queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BCE
• Horace (64 BC–7 BC) — Roman lyric poet (65 BC – 8 BC)
• Titus Livius (58 BC–17) — Roman historian (59 BC – AD 17)
• Lucretius (93 BC–54 BC) — 1st-century BC Roman poet and philosopher
• Catullus (83 BC–53 BC) — lyric Latin poet of the Roman Republic
• Strabo (62 BC–23) — Greek geographer, philosopher and historian (64/63 BC–c.24 AD)
• Pompey (105 BC–47 BC) — Roman general and statesman (106–48 BC)
• Mark Antony (82 BC–29 BC) — Roman politician and general (83 BC – 30 BC)
• Bartholomew the Apostle (100 BC–) — Christian apostle and martyr
• Vitruvius (79 BC–14 BC) — Roman architect and engineer
• Diodorus Siculus (89 BC–19 BC) — 1st-century BC Greek historian
• Sallust (85 BC–34 BC) — Roman historian and politician (86 BC - c. 35 BC)
• Herod the Great (73 BC–3 BC) — king of Judea from 37/6 BCE to 4/1 BCE
• Marcus Junius Brutus (84 BC–41 BC) — assassin of Julius Caesar
• Saint Anne (54 BC–12) — mother of Virgin Mary in Christian and Islamic traditions; unnamed in the New Testament or Quran
• Tigranes the Great (139 BC–54 BC) — king of Armenia
• Marcus Terentius Varro (115 BC–26 BC) — Roman scholar, polymath and author (116–27 BC)
• Marcus Licinius Crassus (114 BC–52 BC) — member of the First Triumvirate
• Vercingetorix (79 BC–45 BC) — protohistoric chieftain of the Arverni tribe, defeated by Julius Caesar during the Gallic wars
• Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (62 BC–11 BC) — ancient Roman statesman and general
• Dionysius of Halicarnassus (59 BC–6 BC) — 1st-century BC Greek historian and teacher

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