75 BC
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| 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: | 78 BC 77 BC 76 BC - 75 BC - 74 BC 73 BC 72 BC |
| 75 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 75 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 679 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1918 – -1917 |
| Berber calendar | 876 |
| Buddhist calendar | 470 |
| Burmese calendar | -712 |
| Chinese calendar | 2562/2622 ([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年) — to —
2563/2623([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年) |
| Coptic calendar | -358 – -357 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -82 – -81 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3686 – 3687 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | -19 – -18 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3027 – 3028 |
| Holocene calendar | 9926 |
| Iranian calendar | 696 BP – 695 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 717 BH – 716 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2259 |
| Thai solar calendar | 469 |
Year 75 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Rome
- In Rome, the tribune Quintus Opimius speaks out against Sullan restrictions on the tribunate, in orations noted for sarcasm against conservatives.
- Cicero is quaestor in Rome.
- Nicomedes IV of Bithynia bequeathed his kingdom to Rome on his death (75/4 BC), angry by the arrangement, Mithridates VI of Pontus declared war on Rome and invaded Bithynia, Cappadocia and Paphlagonia, thus starting the Third Mithridatic War.
- Third Mithridatic War — M. Aurelius Cotta was defeated by Mithridates in the Battle of Chalcedon.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Literature
- Start of Golden Age of Latin Literature.
