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: 53 BC 52 BC 51 BC - 50 BC - 49 BC 48 BC 47 BC
50 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
50 BC in other calendars Gregorian calendar 50 BC

Ab urbe condita 704
Armenian calendar N/A
Bahá'í calendar -1893 – -1892
Berber calendar 901
Buddhist calendar 495
Burmese calendar -687
Byzantine calendar 5459 – 5460
Chinese calendar 庚午年
(2587/2647) 辛未年
(2588/2648)
Coptic calendar -333 – -332
Ethiopian calendar -57 – -56
Hebrew calendar 3711 – 3712
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 6 – 7
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 3052 – 3053
Holocene calendar 9951
Iranian calendar 671 BP – 670 BP
Islamic calendar 692 BH – 691 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar 2284
Thai solar calendar 494

Year 50 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

• Consuls: Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor.
• The Senate refuses Julius Caesar permission to stand for consul in absentia, and demands that he lay down his command.
• The Roman artillery piece called Scorpio is invented.

Births

Deaths

• Aristobulus II, king of Judea
• Quintus Hortensius, Roman orator and advocate (b. 114 BC)

Fictional references

• The Asterix comic books are all set in this year.