72 BC

__NOTOC__Year 72 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

* Battle of Cabira — Lucius Lucullus defeats Mithridates, overruns Pontus. Mithridates fled to Armenia, rules by his son-in-law Tigranes, who refuses to turn his father-in-law in to Lucius Lucullus.
* Quintus Sertorius was assassinated by his subordinate, Marcus Perperna, who was in turn defeated by Cnaeus Pompeius, thus ending the Sertorian War in Spain.

Gaul

* The Helvetii and other peoples under Ariovistus invade Gaul.

Births

* Vercingetorix, Gallian chief (d. 46 BC)

Deaths

* Quintus Sertorius (assassinated)
* Crixus, rebel slave