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

77 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	77 BC LXXVII BC
Ab urbe condita	677
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 247
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy XII Auletes, 4
Ancient Greek era	175th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4674
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−669
Berber calendar	874
Buddhist calendar	468
Burmese calendar	−714
Byzantine calendar	5432–5433
Chinese calendar	癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 2621 or 2414     — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 2622 or 2415
Coptic calendar	−360 – −359
Discordian calendar	1090
Ethiopian calendar	−84 – −83
Hebrew calendar	3684–3685
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−20 – −19
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3024–3025
Holocene calendar	9924
Iranian calendar	698 BP – 697 BP
Islamic calendar	719 BH – 718 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2257
Minguo calendar	1988 before ROC 民前1988年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1544
Seleucid era	235/236 AG
Thai solar calendar	466–467
Tibetan calendar	阴水兔年 (female Water-Rabbit) 50 or −331 or −1103     — to — 阳木龙年 (male Wood-Dragon) 51 or −330 or −1102

Bust of Gnaeus Pompeius (middle).

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 AUC). 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 Pompey 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 Vento, sails on to the Iberian Peninsula.
• Pompeius marches along the Via Domitia through Gallia Narbonensis crossing the Pyrenees to Spain. He joins with Quintus Metellus Pius to suppress the revolt of Quintus Sertorius, but is at first unsuccessful.

Armenia

• The city of Tigranakert of Artsakh is built.

Births

• Berenice IV Epiphaneia, Greek princess and queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom (d. 55 BC)
• 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)
• Tian Qianqiu, Chinese politician and prime minister
• Titus Quinctius Atta, Roman comedy writer
• Vattagamani Abhaya, king of Sri Lanka