62 BC

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.

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC 1st century BC 1st century
Decades:	80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC
Years:	65 BC 64 BC 63 BC 62 BC 61 BC 60 BC 59 BC

62 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	62 BC LXII BC
Ab urbe condita	692
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 262
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy XII Auletes, 19
Ancient Greek era	179th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4689
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−654
Berber calendar	889
Buddhist calendar	483
Burmese calendar	−699
Byzantine calendar	5447–5448
Chinese calendar	戊午年 (Earth Horse) 2636 or 2429     — to — 己未年 (Earth Goat) 2637 or 2430
Coptic calendar	−345 – −344
Discordian calendar	1105
Ethiopian calendar	−69 – −68
Hebrew calendar	3699–3700
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−5 – −4
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3039–3040
Holocene calendar	9939
Iranian calendar	683 BP – 682 BP
Islamic calendar	704 BH – 703 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2272
Minguo calendar	1973 before ROC 民前1973年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1529
Seleucid era	250/251 AG
Thai solar calendar	481–482
Tibetan calendar	阳土马年 (male Earth-Horse) 65 or −316 or −1088     — to — 阴土羊年 (female Earth-Goat) 66 or −315 or −1087

Events

By place

Roman Republic

• January 5 – The forces of the conspirator Catiline are defeated by the loyal Roman armies of Antonius Hybrida led by Marcus Petreius in the Battle of Pistoria.
• Julius Caesar divorces Pompeia, following the sacrilege of Publius Clodius Pulcher.
• 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

• Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator, king (pharaoh) of Egypt (d. 47 BC)

Deaths

• Lucius Sergius Catilina, Roman politician (b. 108 BC)
• Quintus Roscius Gallus, Roman actor (b. c. 126 BC)
• Zhang Anshi, Chinese official of the Han Dynasty

References