71 BC

Year 71 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Orestes (or, less frequently, year 683 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 71 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:	90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC
Years:	74 BC 73 BC 72 BC 71 BC 70 BC 69 BC 68 BC

71 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	71 BC LXXI BC
Ab urbe condita	683
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 253
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy XII Auletes, 10
Ancient Greek era	177th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4680
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−663
Berber calendar	880
Buddhist calendar	474
Burmese calendar	−708
Byzantine calendar	5438–5439
Chinese calendar	己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 2627 or 2420     — to — 庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 2628 or 2421
Coptic calendar	−354 – −353
Discordian calendar	1096
Ethiopian calendar	−78 – −77
Hebrew calendar	3690–3691
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−14 – −13
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3030–3031
Holocene calendar	9930
Iranian calendar	692 BP – 691 BP
Islamic calendar	713 BH – 712 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2263
Minguo calendar	1982 before ROC 民前1982年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1538
Seleucid era	241/242 AG
Thai solar calendar	472–473
Tibetan calendar	阴土鸡年 (female Earth-Rooster) 56 or −325 or −1097     — to — 阳金狗年 (male Iron-Dog) 57 or −324 or −1096

Events

By place

Roman Republic

• Third Servile War ends; Slave rebellion under leadership of Spartacus is crushed by a Roman army under Marcus Licinius Crassus. Slaves taken prisoner are crucified naked along the Via Appia.
• Marcus Antonius is defeated by the Cretans, who have made an alliance with the pirates. He is compelled to concede a humiliating peace. Antonius dies in office the same year and is awarded, posthumously, with the cognomen Creticus.
• Nessebar in modern-day Bulgaria comes under Roman rule.

Births

• Wang Zhengjun, Chinese empress of the Han dynasty (d. AD 13)

Deaths

• Castus, Gallic gladiator and rebel leader
• Gannicus, Celtic gladiator and rebel leader
• Marcus Antonius Creticus, Roman politician (father of Mark Antony)
• Spartacus, Thracian gladiator and rebel leader (presumably killed in battle) (b. 109 BC)
• Xu Pingjun, Chinese empress of the Han dynasty