60 BC
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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 by topic | |
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Gregorian calendar | 60 BC |
Ab urbe condita | 694 |
Armenian calendar | N/A |
Bahá'í calendar | -1903 – -1902 |
Berber calendar | 891 |
Buddhist calendar | 485 |
Burmese calendar | -697 |
Chinese calendar | 2577/2637 ([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年) — to —
2578/2638([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年) |
Coptic calendar | -343 – -342 |
Ethiopian calendar | -67 – -66 |
Hebrew calendar | 3701 – 3702 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | -4 – -3 |
- Shaka Samvat | N/A |
- Kali Yuga | 3042 – 3043 |
Holocene calendar | 9941 |
Iranian calendar | 681 BP – 680 BP |
Islamic calendar | 702 BH – 701 BH |
Japanese calendar | |
Korean calendar | 2274 |
Thai solar calendar | 484 |
Year 60 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Rome
- Gaius Julius Caesar suppressed an uprising and conquered 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)
[edit] Syria
- The Seleucid Kingdom comes to an end with the last two Emperors being murdered on orders from Rome.
[edit] 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)
[edit] Births
- Prince Ptolemy of Egypt, later Pharaoh Ptolemy XIV of Egypt (or 59 BC)