60 BC
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| Millennium: | 1st millennium 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: | 63 BC 62 BC 61 BC – 60 BC – 59 BC 58 BC 57 BC |
| 60 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 60 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 694 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Assyrian calendar | 4691 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1903–-1902 |
| Bengali calendar | -652 |
| Berber calendar | 891 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 485 |
| Burmese calendar | -697 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5449–5450 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚申年 (2577/2637) — to —
辛酉年(2578/2638) |
| Coptic calendar | -343–-342 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -67–-66 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3701–3702 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | -3–-2 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3042–3043 |
| Holocene calendar | 9941 |
| Iranian calendar | 681 BP – 680 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 702 BH – 701 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2274 |
| Minguo calendar | 1971 before ROC 民前1971年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 484 |
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Year 60 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Metellus and Afranius (or, less frequently, year 694 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 60 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.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Roman Republic
- Gaius Julius Caesar suppresses an uprising and conquers all of Lusitania for Rome
- Creation of the First Triumvirate, an informal political alliance between Julius Caesar, Pompey the Great and Marcus Licinius Crassus (or 59 BC)
[edit] Syria
- The Seleucid Empire comes to an end with the last two Emperors being murdered on orders from Rome.
[edit] China
- The Han Dynasty government establishes the Protectorate of the Western Regions, the highest military position of a military commander on the Western frontier (Tarim Basin).
[edit] Births
- Prince Ptolemy of Egypt, later Pharaoh Ptolemy XIV of Egypt (or 59 BC) (d. 44 BC)
[edit] Deaths
- Aretas III Philhellene, king of Petra
- Su Wu (b. 140 BC)
