| 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: | 74 BC 73 BC 72 BC – 71 BC – 70 BC 69 BC 68 BC |
| 71 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 71 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 683 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Assyrian calendar | 4680 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1914–-1913 |
| Bengali calendar | -663 |
| Berber calendar | 880 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 474 |
| Burmese calendar | -708 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5438–5439 |
| Chinese calendar | 己酉年 (2566/2626) — to —
庚戌年(2567/2627) |
| Coptic calendar | -354–-353 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -78–-77 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3690–3691 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | -14–-13 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3031–3032 |
| Holocene calendar | 9930 |
| Iranian calendar | 692 BP – 691 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 713 BH – 712 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2263 |
| Minguo calendar | 1982 before ROC 民前1982年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 473 |
Year 71 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Orestes (or, less frequently, year 683 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 71 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.