72 BC
| Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
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| 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: | 75 BC 74 BC 73 BC – 72 BC – 71 BC 70 BC 69 BC |
| 72 BC by topic |
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| Gregorian calendar | 72 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 682 |
| Ancient Egypt era | XXXIII dynasty, 252 |
| - Pharaoh | Ptolemy XII Auletes, 9 |
| Ancient Greek era | 177th Olympiad (victor)¹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 4679 |
| Bengali calendar | −664 |
| Berber calendar | 879 |
| Buddhist calendar | 473 |
| Burmese calendar | −709 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5437–5438 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 2625 or 2565 — to — 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 2626 or 2566 |
| Coptic calendar | −355 – −354 |
| Discordian calendar | 1095 |
| Ethiopian calendar | −79 – −78 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3689–3690 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | −15 – −14 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3030–3031 |
| Holocene calendar | 9929 |
| Iranian calendar | 693 BP – 692 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 714 BH – 713 BH |
| Julian calendar | N/A |
| Korean calendar | 2262 |
| Minguo calendar | 1983 before ROC 民前1983年 |
| Seleucid era | 240/241 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 471–472 |
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Year 72 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Publicola and Lentulus (or, less frequently, year 682 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 72 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
- Battle of Cabira: Lucius Lucullus defeats Mithridates, overruns Pontus. Mithridates fled to Armenia, rules by his son-in-law Tigranes, who refuses to turn his father-in-law in to Lucius Lucullus.
- Quintus Sertorius was assassinated by his subordinate, Marcus Perperna, who was in turn defeated by Gnaeus Pompeius, thus ending the Sertorian War in Spain.
Gaul
- The Helvetii and other peoples under Ariovistus invade Gaul.
Births
- Vercingetorix, Gallian chief (d. 46 BC)
Deaths
- Quintus Sertorius (assassinated) (b. c. 126 BC)
- Crixus, rebel slave