65 BC
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The year 65 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cotta and Torquatus (or, less frequently, the '*year 689 *Ab urbe condita'''''). The denomination 65 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
- In response to the illegal exercise of citizen rights by foreigners, the Roman Senate passes the Lex Papia, which expels all foreigners from Rome
- Tigranes of Armenia is defeated and captured by Pompey, thus ending all hostilities on the northeastern frontier of Rome.
- Pompey the Great subjugates the kingdom of Iberia and makes Colchis a Roman province.
Western Han Empire
- 9th year of the reign of Emperor Xuan of Han
Births
- December 8 – Horace, Roman poet (d. 8 BC)
- Gaius Asinius Pollio, Roman orator, poet and historian (d. AD 4)
Deaths
- Xiphares, son of Mithridates VI (b. c. 85 BC)
References
References
- Husband, R. (1916). On the Expulsion of Foreigners from Rome. ''Classical Philology'', 11(3), 315-333. Retrieved March 11, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/261855
- Grant, Michael. "Horace".
- [[Jerome]] (''[[Chronicon (Jerome). Chronicon]]'' [http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/jerome_chronicle_03_part2.htm 2020]) says he died in AD 4 in the seventieth year of his life, which would place the year of his birth at 65 BC.
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