72 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium 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 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	72 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
Bengali calendar	−664
Berber calendar	879
Buddhist calendar	473
Burmese calendar	−709
Byzantine calendar	5437–5438
Chinese calendar	戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 2625 or 2565     — to — 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 2626 or 2566
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	3030–3031
Holocene calendar	9929
Iranian calendar	693 BP – 692 BP
Islamic calendar	714 BH – 713 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2262
Minguo calendar	1983 before ROC 民前1983年
Seleucid era	240/241 AG
Thai solar calendar	471–472

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

References