65 BC

The year 65 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cotta and Torquatus (or, less frequently, the year 689 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 65 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

65 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	65 BC LXV BC
Ab urbe condita	689
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 259
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy XII Auletes, 16
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer)	178th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4686
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−658 – −657
Berber calendar	886
Buddhist calendar	480
Burmese calendar	−702
Byzantine calendar	5444–5445
Chinese calendar	乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 2633 or 2426     — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 2634 or 2427
Coptic calendar	−348 – −347
Discordian calendar	1102
Ethiopian calendar	−72 – −71
Hebrew calendar	3696–3697
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−8 – −7
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3036–3037
Holocene calendar	9936
Iranian calendar	686 BP – 685 BP
Islamic calendar	707 BH – 706 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2269
Minguo calendar	1976 before ROC 民前1976年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1532
Seleucid era	247/248 AG
Thai solar calendar	478–479
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Wood-Hare) 62 or −319 or −1091     — to — མེ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Fire-Dragon) 63 or −318 or −1090

Events

By place

Roman Republic

• In response to the illegal exercise of citizen rights by foreigners, the Roman Senate passes the Lex Papia, which expels all foreigners from Rome^[1]
• Tigranes of Armenia is defeated and captured by Pompey, thus ending all hostilities on the northeastern frontier of Rome.
• Pompey the Great subjugates the kingdom of Iberia and makes Colchis a Roman province.

Western Han Empire

• 9th year of the reign of Emperor Xuan of Han

Births

• December 8 – Horace, Roman poet (d. 8 BC)^[2]
• Gaius Asinius Pollio, Roman orator, poet and historian (d. AD 4)^[3]

Deaths

• Xiphares, son of Mithridates VI (b. c. 85 BC)