60 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century
Decades:	90s BC  80s BC  70s BC  – 60s BC –  50s BC  40s BC  30s BC
Years:	63 BC 62 BC 61 BC – 60 BC – 59 BC 58 BC 57 BC

60 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	60 BC
Ab urbe condita	694
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 264
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy XII Auletes, 21
Ancient Greek era	180th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4691
Bengali calendar	−652
Berber calendar	891
Buddhist calendar	485
Burmese calendar	−697
Byzantine calendar	5449–5450
Chinese calendar	庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 2637 or 2577     — to — 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 2638 or 2578
Coptic calendar	−343 – −342
Discordian calendar	1107
Ethiopian calendar	−67 – −66
Hebrew calendar	3701–3702
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−3 – −2
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3042–3043
Holocene calendar	9941
Iranian calendar	681 BP – 680 BP
Islamic calendar	702 BH – 701 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2274
Minguo calendar	1971 before ROC 民前1971年
Seleucid era	252/253 AG
Thai solar calendar	483–484

Year 60 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Metellus and Afranius (or, less frequently, year 694 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 60 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

• Gaius Julius Caesar suppresses an uprising and conquers all of Lusitania for Rome
• Creation of the First Triumvirate, an informal political alliance between Julius Caesar, Pompey the Great and Marcus Licinius Crassus (or 59 BC)

Syria

• The Seleucid Empire comes to an end with the last two Emperors being murdered on orders from Rome.

China

• The Han Dynasty government establishes the Protectorate of the Western Regions, the highest military position of a military commander on the Western frontier (Tarim Basin).

Births

• Prince Ptolemy of Egypt, later Pharaoh Ptolemy XIV of Egypt (or 59 BC) (d. 44 BC)

Deaths

• Aretas III Philhellene, king of Petra
• Su Wu (b. 140 BC)

References