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62 BC

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Year 62 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silanus and Murena (or, less frequently, year 692 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 62 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.

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Roman Republic

  • January 5 – The forces of the conspirator Catiline are defeated by the loyal Roman armies of Antonius Hybrida led by Gaius Antonius in the Battle of Pistoria.
  • Julius Caesar divorces Pompeia, following the sacrilege of Clodius.
  • Cicero delivers his Pro Archia Poeta in defense of Aulus Licinius Archias' claim to Roman citizenship.
  • Cato the Younger, as tribune, presents a lex frumentaria (enacting a grain dole).
  • Metellus Nepos, also tribune, leaves Rome.
  • Caesar and Bibulus are praetors.

    • Commagene

  • King Antiochus I Theos of Commagene builds his mountain-top tomb-sanctuary at Mount Nemrut.

    • Births

  • Prince Ptolemy of Egypt, later Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII of Egypt (or 61 BC)

    • Deaths

  • Lucius Sergius Catilina, Roman statesman, at the battle of Pistoria (b. 108 BC)

    • References

    62 BC Wikipedia
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