wen Julius caesar invaded england in 55 BC what year did he think it was?

Answer 1

I believe that the Roman calendar was based on the year which we call 753BC, the traditional date for the founding of Rome.
He would have considered the year to be 698.

Answer 2

Stonehenge was indeed finished (after 1500 years of building in several stages) about 1000 years before Caesar. There are few or probably no remains of Caesar's invasions in Britain, but many ancient British artifacts and structures of that period, as noted in other answers. The main Roman invasion was in 44 AD, and from then on Roman remains are frequent in Britain.

Answer 3

695

(Years since the foundation of Rome.) Or he could have measured it from the first Olympiad - I'd have to look that up. Often Romans used a political calendar, and would say 'In the second year of the consulship of Gaius Julius Caesar and Pompius Maximus' etc.

Answer 4

I don't know what the calendar said in his time, but we see it as 54 BCE. He led a 3-month long expedition into Britain. He did not establish anything permanent at the time, but it was the first time Romans invaded Britain. Starring the Q.

Answer 5

a.u.c. 699 (now remember that B.C. 0 upto B.C. 1 is one year, otherwise you will think my answer is one year out).

The post of Consule Ordinaris was an enormously important political office endowed with the greatest legislative, judicial and military authority in the Roman Republic. The office was dual, elective, and of one-year's duration, all aspirants for the position must first have served as praetor, and the two candidates who polled the most votes took up office on the first of January.

There were two divisions in the office of consul; the consules ordinarii, who were the two men who polled the most votes in the yearly consular elections, and the consules suffecti who would sometimes be appointed in republican times to replace a consul who had been killed in battle, or otherwise relieved of his office; often the next-highest polling consular candidate. The duties of 'ordinary' and 'suffect' consul were exactly the same - i.e. to ensure the smooth-running of the Roman state - but there was one important difference; the Roman year was named after the Consules Ordinarii. As one can imagine, the office of 'Ordinary Consul' was extremely sought-after, as its aquisition would forever immortalise the recipient's name in the annals of Rome.

The full list of Roman consuls is available to modern historians, dating from the foundation of the Roman republic in 509 BC, until the division of the empire in AD337, thanks mainly to classical historians such as Varro and Cassius Dio, who each gave lists of consulars in their works, and to the diligent works of modern historians such as A. Degrassi and T.R.S. Broughton.

Ab Urbe Condita - From the Founding of the City
Unlike our modern Christian calendar which enumerates the years from the birth of Jesus Christ, the Roman calendar counted the years ab urbe condita or "from the founding of the city". The city of Rome was founded in 753 BC, so this would bracket our list of consuls between a.u.c. 245 and 1090.

"Claudius was born ... on the Kalends of August in the consulship of Iullus Antonius and Fabius Africanus, ..." (Suetonius Claudius II.i)
The above extract from Suetonius' Life of Claudius tells us not only the day Claudius was born - the first of August - but we can also find his year of birth by reference to the list of known consulars, where we find that Fabius Africanus Maximus (the son of Quintus) and Iullus Antonius (the son of Marcus Antonius) were consules ordinarii a.u.c.744; that's 10BC to us mortal folk!

Answer 6

the Romans used the fonding of the city of Rome as year one. This web site is a grate help with telling when and how that changed.

http://webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-roman.html

Answer 7

He wasn`t sure, but he did find a coin on the beach that was stamped 100BC and wondered what the numbers and letters meant!

Answer 8

year before 54 bc.

Answer 9

I doubt he even thought about it.. he certainly didn't think of it as anything BC...

Answer 10

What a great question, no idea, but will put it on my watchlist, have a star.