73 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: | 76 BC 75 BC 74 BC – 73 BC – 72 BC 71 BC 70 BC |
| 73 BC by topic |
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| Gregorian calendar | 73 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 681 |
| Ancient Egypt era | XXXIII dynasty, 251 |
| - Pharaoh | Ptolemy XII Auletes, 8 |
| Ancient Greek era | 176th Olympiad, year 4 |
| Assyrian calendar | 4678 |
| Bengali calendar | −665 |
| Berber calendar | 878 |
| Buddhist calendar | 472 |
| Burmese calendar | −710 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5436–5437 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 2624 or 2564 — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 2625 or 2565 |
| Coptic calendar | −356 – −355 |
| Discordian calendar | 1094 |
| Ethiopian calendar | −80 – −79 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3688–3689 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | −16 – −15 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3029–3030 |
| Holocene calendar | 9928 |
| Iranian calendar | 694 BP – 693 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 715 BH – 714 BH |
| Julian calendar | N/A |
| Korean calendar | 2261 |
| Minguo calendar | 1984 before ROC 民前1984年 |
| Seleucid era | 239/240 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 470–471 |
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Year 73 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lucullus and Longinus (or, less frequently, year 681 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 73 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
British Isles
- Traditional date that Lud became King of Britain, according to Geoffrey of Monmouth.
Roman Republic
- Third Servile War begins with gladiators, led by the Thracian Spartacus, breaking out of a gladiatorial training school in Capua and forming an army, made up of runaway slaves and others with little to lose. With some 70,000 men, Spartacus rampages throughout Campania, assaulting the prosperous cities of Cumae, Nola and Nuceria.
India
- The Sunga Empire comes to an end.
Births
- Herod the Great (d. 4 BC)
Deaths
- Heli, King of Britain