66 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: | 69 BC 68 BC 67 BC - 66 BC - 65 BC 64 BC 63 BC |
| 66 BC by topic | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 66 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 688 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1909 – -1908 |
| Berber calendar | 885 |
| Buddhist calendar | 479 |
| Burmese calendar | -703 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5443 – 5444 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲年 (2571/2631) — to —
[[Sexagenary cycle|]]年(2572/2632) |
| Coptic calendar | -349 – -348 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -73 – -72 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3695 – 3696 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | -10 – -9 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3036 – 3037 |
| Holocene calendar | 9935 |
| Iranian calendar | 687 BP – 686 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 708 BH – 707 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2268 |
| Thai solar calendar | 478 |
Year 66 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
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[edit] Rome
- Consuls: Manius Aemilius Lepidus and Lucius Volcatius Tullus.
- Catiline accused of conspiring against the Roman Republic with Autronius and the younger Sulla (also in 63 during the Consulship of Cicero)
- The alliance between Mithridates VI of Pontus and Tigranes II of Armenia is broken.
- Battle of the Lycus — Pompey the Great decisively defeats Mithridates VI, effectively ending the Third Mithridatic War.
- Gaius Antonius elected Roman Praetor.
- The lex Manilia, supported by Cicero gives Pompey command over all of Asia.
- Cicero becomes praetor of Sicily.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- Licinius Macer, Roman annalist
