68 BC
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Heads of State
Year of the Water Buffalo癸丑( at the beginning of the year, water - rat壬子)
Syria: 244/245
Events
- Catiline is governor of the Roman province of Africa and exploits them.
- Lucullus defeated Tigranes II King of Armenia at the Battle of Artaxata.
Died
- Lucius Caecilius Metellus, a Roman politician
- Iulia, Roman patrician (c. 130 BC)
- 68 BC: Antiochus of Ascalon, Greek philosopher (c. 120 BC)
- Year ( 1st century BC)
- 68 BC