70 BC

__NOTOC__Year 70 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

* August — In Rome, Cicero prosecutes former governor Verres; Verres exiles himself to Marseille before the trial is over.
* Pompey and Marcus Licinius Crassus become consul.
* The office of censor is reinstated in the Roman Republic.
* Lucullus captures Sinop, then invades Armenia.

Parthia

* Phraates III becomes the King of Parthia

Births

*October 15 — Virgil, Roman poet (d. 19 BC)
*December — Cleopatra VII of Egypt (or January 69 BC) (d. 30 BC)
*Publius Cornelius Dolabella, Roman general (d. 43 BC)
*Maecenas, Roman politician and patron (d. 8 BC)

Deaths

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