73 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century
Decades:	100s BC  90s BC  80s BC  – 70s BC –  60s BC  50s BC  40s BC
Years:	76 BC 75 BC 74 BC – 73 BC – 72 BC 71 BC 70 BC

73 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

73 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	73 BC
Ab urbe condita	681
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4678
Bahá'í calendar	-1916–-1915
Bengali calendar	-665
Berber calendar	878
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	472
Burmese calendar	-710
Byzantine calendar	5436–5437
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (2564/2624) — to — 戊申年 (2565/2625)
Coptic calendar	-356–-355
Ethiopian calendar	-80–-79
Hebrew calendar	3688–3689
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-16–-15
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3029–3030
Holocene calendar	9928
Iranian calendar	694 BP – 693 BP
Islamic calendar	715 BH – 714 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2261
Minguo calendar	1984 before ROC 民前1984年
Thai solar calendar	471

Year 73 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lucullus and Longinus (or, less frequently, year 681 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 73 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.

Events

By place

British Isles

• Traditional date that Lud became King of Britain, according to Geoffrey of Monmouth.

Roman Republic

• Third Servile War begins with gladiators, led by the Thracian Spartacus, breaking out of a gladiatorial training school in Capua and forming an army, made up of runaway slaves and others with little to lose. With some 70,000 men, Spartacus rampages throughout Campania, assaulting the prosperous cities of Cumae, Nola and Nuceria.

India

• The Sunga Empire comes to an end.

Births

• Herod the Great (d. 4 BC)

Deaths

• Heli, King of Britain