79 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:	82 BC 81 BC 80 BC – 79 BC – 78 BC 77 BC 76 BC

79 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	79 BC
Ab urbe condita	675
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 245
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy XII Auletes, 2
Ancient Greek era	175th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4672
Bengali calendar	−671
Berber calendar	872
Buddhist calendar	466
Burmese calendar	−716
Byzantine calendar	5430–5431
Chinese calendar	辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 2618 or 2558     — to — 壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 2619 or 2559
Coptic calendar	−362 – −361
Discordian calendar	1088
Ethiopian calendar	−86 – −85
Hebrew calendar	3682–3683
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−22 – −21
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3023–3024
Holocene calendar	9922
Iranian calendar	700 BP – 699 BP
Islamic calendar	722 BH – 720 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2255
Minguo calendar	1990 before ROC 民前1990年
Seleucid era	233/234 AG
Thai solar calendar	464–465

Year 79 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Isauricus and Pulcher (or, less frequently, year 675 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 79 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

• Sulla renounces his dictatorship.
• Cicero travels to Athens and then to Rhodes to continue his studies of philosophy and oratory.

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