74 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:	77 BC 76 BC 75 BC - 74 BC - 73 BC 72 BC 71 BC

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

**74 BC in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	74 BC
Ab urbe condita	680
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1917 – -1916
Berber calendar	877
Buddhist calendar	471
Burmese calendar	-711
Chinese calendar	2563/2623 ([[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年) — to — 2564/2624 ([[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年)
Coptic calendar	-357 – -356
Ethiopian calendar	-81 – -80
Hebrew calendar	3687 – 3688
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-18 – -17
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3028 – 3029
Holocene calendar	9927
Iranian calendar	695 BP – 694 BP
Islamic calendar	716 BH – 715 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2260
Thai solar calendar	470
v • d • e

Year 74 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

[edit] Events

Nicomedes IV, last king of Bithynia bequeaths his kingdom to the Roman Senate upon his death (75/4 BC).
Roman forces under Lucius Lucullus defeat the forces of Mithridates VI of Pontus in the Battle of Cyzicus.
Quintus Opimius is prosecuted for overstepping his authority, and ruined by a conviction.
Cyrene becomes a Roman province.