62 BC

__NOTOC__Year 62 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

*January 5 — The forces of the conspirator Catiline are defeated by the loyal Roman armies of Antonius Hybrida led by Gaius Antonius in the Battle of Pistoria.
*Julius Caesar divorces Pompeia, following the sacrilege of Clodius.
*Cicero delivers his Pro Archia Poeta in defense of Aulus Licinius Archias' claim to Roman citizenship.
*Cato the Younger, as tribune, presents a "lex frumentaria" (enacting a grain dole)
*Metellus Nepos, also tribune, leaves Rome.
*Caesar and Bibulus are praetors.

Commagene

* King Antiochus I Theos of Commagene builds his mountain-top tomb-sanctuary at Mount Nemrut.

Births

*Prince Ptolemy of Egypt, later Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII of Egypt (or 61 BC)

Deaths

* Lucius Sergius Catilina, Roman statesman, at the battle of Pistoria (b. 108 BC)