74 BC

Year 74 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 Cotta (or, less frequently, year 680 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 74 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.

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:	77 BC 76 BC 75 BC 74 BC 73 BC 72 BC 71 BC

74 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	74 BC LXXIII BC
Ab urbe condita	680
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 250
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy XII Auletes, 7
Ancient Greek era	176th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4677
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−666
Berber calendar	877
Buddhist calendar	471
Burmese calendar	−711
Byzantine calendar	5435–5436
Chinese calendar	丙午年 (Fire Horse) 2623 or 2563     — to — 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 2624 or 2564
Coptic calendar	−357 – −356
Discordian calendar	1093
Ethiopian calendar	−81 – −80
Hebrew calendar	3687–3688
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−17 – −16
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3027–3028
Holocene calendar	9927
Iranian calendar	695 BP – 694 BP
Islamic calendar	716 BH – 715 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2260
Minguo calendar	1985 before ROC 民前1985年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1541
Seleucid era	238/239 AG
Thai solar calendar	469–470
Tibetan calendar	阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 53 or −328 or −1100     — to — 阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) 54 or −327 or −1099

Events

By place

Roman Republic

• Nicomedes IV, last king of Bithynia bequeaths his kingdom to the Roman Senate upon his death (75/4 BC).
• Roman forces under Lucius Lucullus defeat the forces of Mithridates VI of Pontus in the Battle of Cyzicus.
• Marcus Antonius (father of Mark Antony), a praetor, receives wide-ranging powers and considerable resources to fight the pirates in the Mediterranean Sea.
• Publius Servilius Vatia returns to Rome, where he has triumphed against the pirates in Anatolia, and is given the agnomen Isauricus.
• Quintus Opimius is prosecuted for overstepping his authority, and ruined by a conviction.
• Cyrene becomes a Roman province.

Spain

• Pamplona is founded.

Births

• Quintus Aelius Tubero, Roman jurist and statesman

Deaths

• Lucius Aelius Stilo Praeconinus, Roman philologist
• Lucius Octavius, Roman politician and consul
• Nicomedes IV (Philopator), king of Bithynia
• Zhao of Han, Chinese emperor (b. 94 BC)

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