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:	50 BC 49 BC 48 BC - 47 BC - 46 BC 45 BC 44 BC

47 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments v • d • e

47 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	47 BC
Ab urbe condita	707
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1890 – -1889
Berber calendar	904
Buddhist calendar	498
Burmese calendar	-684
Byzantine calendar	5462 – 5463
Chinese calendar	癸酉年 (2590/2650) — to — 甲戌年 (2591/2651)
Coptic calendar	-330 – -329
Ethiopian calendar	-54 – -53
Hebrew calendar	3714 – 3715
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	9 – 10
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3055 – 3056
Holocene calendar	9954
Iranian calendar	668 BP – 667 BP
Islamic calendar	689 BH – 688 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2287
Thai solar calendar	497
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Year 47 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

• Consuls: Quintus Fufius Calenus, Publius Vatinius.
• Civil War:
  • February — Roman general Julius Caesar and his ally Cleopatra VII of Egypt defeat the forces of the rival Egyptian Queen Arsinoe IV in the Battle of the Nile. Ptolemy is killed; Caesar then relieves his besieged forces in Alexandria.
  • May — Caesar defeats Pharnaces II of Pontus, king of the Bosporus, in the Battle of Zela (this is the war that Caesar tersely described veni, vidi, vici).
  • Pharaoh Cleopatra VII promotes her younger brother Ptolemy XIV of Egypt to co-ruler.
  • August, Caesar quells a mutiny of his veterans in Rome.
  • October, Caesar's invasion of Africa, against Metellus Scipio and Labienus, Caesar's former lieutenant in Gaul.

Asia

• Feng Yuan becomes consort to Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty.

Births

• June 23 — Prince Caesarion of Egypt, later Pharaoh Ptolemy XV
• Marcus Antonius Antyllus, son of Mark Antony and Fulvia

Deaths

• January 13 — Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII of Egypt (drowned in the Nile)
• Pharnaces II of Pontus