77 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:	80 BC 79 BC 78 BC – 77 BC – 76 BC 75 BC 74 BC

77 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

77 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	77 BC
Ab urbe condita	677
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4674
Bahá'í calendar	-1920–-1919
Bengali calendar	-669
Berber calendar	874
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	468
Burmese calendar	-714
Byzantine calendar	5432–5433
Chinese calendar	癸卯年 (2560/2620) — to — 甲辰年 (2561/2621)
Coptic calendar	-360–-359
Ethiopian calendar	-84–-83
Hebrew calendar	3684–3685
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-20–-19
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3025–3026
Holocene calendar	9924
Iranian calendar	698 BP – 697 BP
Islamic calendar	719 BH – 718 BH
Japanese calendar
Julian calendar
Korean calendar	2257
Minguo calendar	1988 before ROC 民前1988年
Thai solar calendar	467

Year 77 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Brutus and Lepidus (or, less frequently, year 677 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 77 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

Roman Republic

• Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Roman consul and leader of the democratic party, is defeated by Quintus Lutatius Catulus outside Rome. The remnants of the rebels are wiped out by Gnaeus Pompeius in Etruria.
• Lepidus, with some 21,000 troops, manages to escape to Sardinia. Soon afterwards he becomes ill and dies, his battered army, now under command by Marcus Perperna, sails on to the Iberian Peninsula.
• Pompeius marches along the Via Domitia through Gallia Narbonensis crossing the Pyrenees to Spain. He joints with Quintus Metellus Pius to suppress the revolt of Quintus Sertorius, but is first unsuccessful.

Armenia

• The city of Tigranakert of Artsakh is built.

Births

• Liu Xiang, Chinese scholar, editor of the Shan Hai Jing, compilator of the Lienü zhuan, and father of Liu Xin (d. 6 BC)

Deaths

• Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Roman statesman and consul (b. 120 BC)
• Vattagamani Abhaya, king of Sri Lanka