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73 BC

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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.

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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

    • References

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