Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
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72 BC by topic |
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Gregorian calendar | 72 BC LXXII BC |
Ab urbe condita | 682 |
Ancient Egypt era | XXXIII dynasty, 252 |
- Pharaoh | Ptolemy XII Auletes, 9 |
Ancient Greek era | 177th Olympiad (victor)¹ |
Assyrian calendar | 4679 |
Balinese saka calendar | N/A |
Bengali calendar | −664 |
Berber calendar | 879 |
Buddhist calendar | 473 |
Burmese calendar | −709 |
Byzantine calendar | 5437–5438 |
Chinese calendar | 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 2626 or 2419 — to — 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 2627 or 2420 |
Coptic calendar | −355 – −354 |
Discordian calendar | 1095 |
Ethiopian calendar | −79 – −78 |
Hebrew calendar | 3689–3690 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | −15 – −14 |
- Shaka Samvat | N/A |
- Kali Yuga | 3029–3030 |
Holocene calendar | 9929 |
Iranian calendar | 693 BP – 692 BP |
Islamic calendar | 714 BH – 713 BH |
Javanese calendar | N/A |
Julian calendar | N/A |
Korean calendar | 2262 |
Minguo calendar | 1983 before ROC 民前1983年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −1539 |
Seleucid era | 240/241 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 471–472 |
Tibetan calendar | 阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) 55 or −326 or −1098 — to — 阴土鸡年 (female Earth-Rooster) 56 or −325 or −1097 |
Year 72 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Publicola and Lentulus (or, less frequently, year 682 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 72 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.
Events
By place
Roman Republic
- Battle of Cabira: Lucius Lucullus defeats Mithridates VI of Pontus, 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 Gnaeus Pompeius, thus ending the Sertorian War in Spain.
Gaul
- The Helvetii and other peoples under Ariovistus invade Gaul.
Births
- Vercingetorix, Gallian chief (d. 46 BC)
Deaths
- Quintus Sertorius (assassinated) (b. c. 126 BC)
- Crixus, rebel slave