73 BC

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

73 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	73 BC LXXIII BC
Ab urbe condita	681
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 251
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy XII Auletes, 8
Ancient Greek era	176th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4678
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−665
Berber calendar	878
Buddhist calendar	472
Burmese calendar	−710
Byzantine calendar	5436–5437
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 2625 or 2418     — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 2626 or 2419
Coptic calendar	−356 – −355
Discordian calendar	1094
Ethiopian calendar	−80 – −79
Hebrew calendar	3688–3689
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−16 – −15
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3028–3029
Holocene calendar	9928
Iranian calendar	694 BP – 693 BP
Islamic calendar	715 BH – 714 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2261
Minguo calendar	1984 before ROC 民前1984年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1540
Seleucid era	239/240 AG
Thai solar calendar	470–471
Tibetan calendar	阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) 54 or −327 or −1099     — to — 阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) 55 or −326 or −1098

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 Shunga Empire comes to an end.

Births

• Herod the Great (d. 4 BC)

Deaths

• Heli, King of Britain