70 BC - Definition and Overview

Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century

Decades: 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC - 70s BC - 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC

74 BC 74 BC 73 BC 72 BC 71 BC 70 BC 69 BC 68 BC 67 BC 66 BC 65 BC

Events

• August - In Rome, Cicero prosecutes former governor Verres; Verres exiles himself to Marseilles before the trial is over.
• Pompey and Marcus Licinius Crassus become consul.
• The office of censor is reinstated in the Roman Republic.
• Lucullus captures Sinop.

Births

• October 15 - Virgil, Roman poet (d. 19 BC)
• December - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (or January 69 BC)
• Publius Cornelius Dolabella, Roman general
• Maecenas, Roman politician and patron

Deaths