72 BC

Centuries:	2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century
Decades:	100s BC 90s BC 80s BC - 70s BC - 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC
Years:	75 BC 74 BC 73 BC - 72 BC - 71 BC 70 BC 69 BC

72 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments v • d • e

**72 BC in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	72 BC
Ab urbe condita	682
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1915 – -1914
Berber calendar	879
Buddhist calendar	473
Burmese calendar	-709
Chinese calendar	2565/2625 ([[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年) — to — 2566/2626 ([[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年)
Coptic calendar	-355 – -354
Ethiopian calendar	-79 – -78
Hebrew calendar	3689 – 3690
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-16 – -15
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3030 – 3031
Holocene calendar	9929
Iranian calendar	693 BP – 692 BP
Islamic calendar	714 BH – 713 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2262
Thai solar calendar	472
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Year 72 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

[edit] Events

Battle of Cabira — Lucius Lucullus defeats Mithridates, overruns Pontus. Mithridates fled to Armenia, rules by his son-in-law Tigranes, who refuses to turn his father-in-law in to Lucius Lucullus.
Quintus Sertorius was assassinated by his subordinate, Marcus Perperna, who was in turn defeated by Cnaeus Pompeius, thus ending the Sertorian War in Spain.