70 BC

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Contents

Events

By place

Rome

Parthia

Births

Deaths

Events

By place

Rome

★ August — In Rome, Cicero prosecutes former governor Verres; Verres exiles himself to Marseille before the trial is over.

★ Pompey and Marcus Licinius Crassus become consul.

★ The office of censor is reinstated in the Roman Republic.

★ Lucullus captures Sinop, then invades Armenia.

Parthia

★ Phraates III becomes the King of Parthia

Births

★ October 15 — Virgil, Roman poet (d. 19 BC)

★ December — Cleopatra VII of Egypt (or January 69 BC)

★ Publius Cornelius Dolabella, Roman general

★ Maecenas, Roman politician and patron

Deaths

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