68 BC

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Millennium:	1st millennium BC
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:	71 BC 70 BC 69 BC – 68 BC – 67 BC 66 BC 65 BC

68 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
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68 BC in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	68 BC
Ab urbe condita	686
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4683
Bahá'í calendar	−1911 – −1910
Bengali calendar	−660
Berber calendar	883
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	477
Burmese calendar	−705
Byzantine calendar	5441–5442
Chinese calendar	壬子年 (Water Rat) 2629 or 2569 — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 2630 or 2570
Coptic calendar	−351 – −350
Discordian calendar	1099
Ethiopian calendar	−75 – −74
Hebrew calendar	3693–3694
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−11 – −10
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3034–3035
Holocene calendar	9933
Igbo calendar	−1067 – −1066
Iranian calendar	689 BP – 688 BP
Islamic calendar	710 BH – 709 BH
Japanese calendar	N/A
Juche calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2266
Minguo calendar	1979 before ROC 民前1979年
Thai solar calendar	476
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Year 68 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Metellus/Vatia and Rex (or, less frequently, year 686 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 68 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

Consuls: Lucius Caecilius Metellus and Quintus Marcius Rex.
October 6 – Lucius Lucullus defeats Tigranes II of Armenia in the Battle of Artaxata.
Gaius Antonius Hybrida elected praetor.
Ostia, the harbour city of Rome, is sacked by pirates. The port is set on fire and the consular war fleet is destroyed.

Osroene

Abgar II becomes ruler of Osroene.

Births

Princess Arsinoe IV of Egypt, daughter of Ptolemy XII of Egypt and probably Cleopatra V of Egypt (or 67 BC) (d. 41 BC)

Deaths

Antiochus of Ascalon, Greek philosopher (b. c. 130 BC)
Cornelia, wife of Julius Caesar (b. 94 BC)
Huo Guang, official of the western Han Dynasty of China

References

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