68 BC

68 BC
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Centuries:	2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century
Decades:	90s BC 80s BC 70s BC - 60s BC - 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC
Years:	71 BC 70 BC 69 BC - 68 BC - 67 BC 66 BC 65 BC

68 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments v • d • e

**68 BC in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	68 BC
Ab urbe condita	686
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1911 – -1910
Berber calendar	883
Buddhist calendar	477
Burmese calendar	-705
Byzantine calendar	5441 – 5442
Chinese calendar	子年 (2569/2629) — to — [[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2570/2630)
Coptic calendar	-351 – -350
Ethiopian calendar	-75 – -74
Hebrew calendar	3693 – 3694
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-12 – -11
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3034 – 3035
Holocene calendar	9933
Iranian calendar	689 BP – 688 BP
Islamic calendar	710 BH – 709 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2266
Thai solar calendar	476
v • d • e

Year 68 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

Consuls: Lucius Caecilius Metellus and Quintus Marcius Rex.
October 6 — Lucius Lucullus defeats Tigranes II of Armenia in the Battle of Artaxata
Gaius Antonius Hybrida elected praetor.

Osroene

Abgar II becomes ruler of Osroene.

Births

Princess Arsinoe IV of Egypt, daughter of Ptolemy XII of Egypt and probably Cleopatra V of Egypt (or 67 BC)

Deaths

Antiochus of Ascalon, Greek philosopher
Cornelia, wife of Julius Caesar
Huo Guang, official of the western Han Dynasty of China

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