70 BC

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Heads of State

Year of the Metal Pig辛亥( at the beginning of the year metal dog庚戌)

Syria: 242/243

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • Cicero's speeches against Verres
  • Phraates III. will succeed his late father as Sinatrukes Parthian rulers.

Science and Technology

  • 70 BC: Geminus of Rhodes proves that the fixed stars are not in the same distance from the earth.

Disasters

Born

  • 70 BC: Gaius Maecenas, Roman politician ( † 8 BC)
  • 70 BC: Gaius Cornelius Gallus, Roman politician and poet († 27/26 BC)
  • 70 BC: Lucius Varius Rufus, Roman poet († 15 BC)
  • 70 BC: Quinctilius Varus, Roman knight († 24/23 BC)

Died

  • Mithridates I, King of Commagene
  • Sinatrukes, Parthian king (c. 157 BC)
April 2014 List of centuries 3rd century BC 100s BC (decade) 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 74 BC 66 BC Sanatruces of Parthia Buddhist calendar Sexagenary cycle Olympiad Phraates III of Parthia June 1 October 15 19 BC Mithridates I Callinicus
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