61 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century
Decades:	90s BC  80s BC  70s BC  – 60s BC –  50s BC  40s BC  30s BC
Years:	64 BC 63 BC 62 BC – 61 BC – 60 BC 59 BC 58 BC

61 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	61 BC LX BC
Ab urbe condita	693
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 263
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy XII Auletes, 20
Ancient Greek era	179th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4690
Bengali calendar	−653
Berber calendar	890
Buddhist calendar	484
Burmese calendar	−698
Byzantine calendar	5448–5449
Chinese calendar	己未年 (Earth Goat) 2636 or 2576     — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 2637 or 2577
Coptic calendar	−344 – −343
Discordian calendar	1106
Ethiopian calendar	−68 – −67
Hebrew calendar	3700–3701
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−4 – −3
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3041–3042
Holocene calendar	9940
Iranian calendar	682 BP – 681 BP
Islamic calendar	703 BH – 702 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2273
Minguo calendar	1972 before ROC 民前1972年
Seleucid era	251/252 AG
Thai solar calendar	482–483

Year 61 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Calpurnianus and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 693 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 61 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.

Events

By place

Roman Republic

• September 29 – Pompey, the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars.
• Marcus Pupius Piso Frugi as consul attempts to gain ratification of Pompey's Eastern Settlement.
• Gaius Julius Caesar becomes governor in Hispania and creates Legio X Gemina (3,500 men). He puts down the Callaici and Lusitani rebellions.

Births

• Prince Ptolemy of Egypt, later Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII of Egypt (or 62 BC)

Deaths

• Quintus Lutatius Catulus (b. 149 BC)