70 BC

Year 70 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Pompeius and Crassus (or, less frequently, year 684 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 70 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:	2nd century BC 1st century BC 1st century
Decades:	90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC
Years:	73 BC 72 BC 71 BC 70 BC 69 BC 68 BC 67 BC

70 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	70 BC LXX BC
Ab urbe condita	684
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 254
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy XII Auletes, 11
Ancient Greek era	177th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4681
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−662
Berber calendar	881
Buddhist calendar	475
Burmese calendar	−707
Byzantine calendar	5439–5440
Chinese calendar	庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 2628 or 2421     — to — 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 2629 or 2422
Coptic calendar	−353 – −352
Discordian calendar	1097
Ethiopian calendar	−77 – −76
Hebrew calendar	3691–3692
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−13 – −12
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3031–3032
Holocene calendar	9931
Iranian calendar	691 BP – 690 BP
Islamic calendar	712 BH – 711 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2264
Minguo calendar	1981 before ROC 民前1981年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1537
Seleucid era	242/243 AG
Thai solar calendar	473–474
Tibetan calendar	阳金狗年 (male Iron-Dog) 57 or −324 or −1096     — to — 阴金猪年 (female Iron-Pig) 58 or −323 or −1095

Depiction of Virgil (70–19 BC)

Events

By place

Roman Republic

• August – In Rome, Cicero prosecutes former governor Verres; Verres exiles himself to Marseille before the trial is over.
• The office of censor is reinstated.
• Lucullus captures Sinop, then invades Armenia.

Parthia

• Phraates III becomes the king of Parthia.

Births

• October 15 – Virgil, Roman poet (d. 19 BC)
• Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt (d. 30 BC)
• Crinagoras, Greek epigrammatist (d. 18 BC)
• Gaius Maecenas, Roman politician (d. 8 BC)

Deaths

• Mithridates I, king of Commagene
• Sanatruces (or Sanatruk), king of Parthia