46 BC

Year 46 BC was the last year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Lepidus (or, less frequently, year 708 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 46 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries:
Decades:
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46 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar46 BC
XLV BC
Ab urbe condita708
Ancient Egypt eraXXXIII dynasty, 278
- PharaohCleopatra VII, 6
Ancient Greek era183rd Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar4705
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−638
Berber calendar905
Buddhist calendar499
Burmese calendar−683
Byzantine calendar5463–5464
Chinese calendar甲戌(Wood Dog)
2651 or 2591
     to 
乙亥年 (Wood Pig)
2652 or 2592
Coptic calendar−329 – −328
Discordian calendar1121
Ethiopian calendar−53 – −52
Hebrew calendar3715–3716
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat11–12
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga3055–3056
Holocene calendar9955
Iranian calendar667 BP – 666 BP
Islamic calendar688 BH – 686 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendar46 BC
XLV BC
Korean calendar2288
Minguo calendar1957 before ROC
民前1957年
Nanakshahi calendar−1513
Seleucid era266/267 AG
Thai solar calendar497–498
Tibetan calendar阳木狗年
(male Wood-Dog)
81 or −300 or −1072
     to 
阴木猪年
(female Wood-Pig)
82 or −299 or −1071

This year marks the change from the pre-Julian Roman calendar to the Julian calendar. The Romans had to periodically add a leap month every few years to keep the calendar year in sync with the solar year but had missed a few with the chaos of the civil wars of the late republic. Julius Caesar added two extra leap months to recalibrate the calendar in preparation for his calendar reform, which went into effect in 45 BC.[1][2] This year therefore had 445 days, and was nicknamed the annus confusionis ("year of confusion") and serves as the longest recorded calendar year in human history.[3] Of course the actual planetary orbit-year remained the same as ever.

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