- 75 BC
__NOTOC__Year 75 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Rome
* In Rome, the tribune
Quintus Opimius speaks out against Sullan restrictions on the tribunate, in orations noted for sarcasm against conservatives.
*Cicero isquaestor inRome .
*Nicomedes IV ofBithynia bequeathed his kingdom to Rome on his death (75/4 BC), angry by the arrangement,Mithridates VI ofPontus declared war on Rome and invaded Bithynia,Cappadocia andPaphlagonia , thus starting theThird Mithridatic War .
*Third Mithridatic War —M. Aurelius Cotta was defeated byMithridates in the Battle of Chalcedon.By topic
Literature
* Start of
Golden Age of Latin Literature .Births
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Emperor Yuan of Han (d.33 BC )Deaths
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