65 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:	68 BC 67 BC 66 BC – 65 BC – 64 BC 63 BC 62 BC

65 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	65 BC LXIV BC
Ab urbe condita	689
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 259
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy XII Auletes, 16
Ancient Greek era	178th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4686
Bengali calendar	−657
Berber calendar	886
Buddhist calendar	480
Burmese calendar	−702
Byzantine calendar	5444–5445
Chinese calendar	乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 2632 or 2572     — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 2633 or 2573
Coptic calendar	−348 – −347
Discordian calendar	1102
Ethiopian calendar	−72 – −71
Hebrew calendar	3696–3697
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−8 – −7
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3037–3038
Holocene calendar	9936
Iranian calendar	686 BP – 685 BP
Islamic calendar	707 BH – 706 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2269
Minguo calendar	1976 before ROC 民前1976年
Seleucid era	247/248 AG
Thai solar calendar	478–479

Year 65 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cotta and Torquatus (or, less frequently, year 689 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 65 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

• In response to the illegal exercise of citizen rights by foreigners, the Roman Senate passed the Lex Papia, which expelled all foreigners from Rome.
• Tigranes of Armenia was defeated and captured by Pompey, thus ending all hostilities on the northeastern frontier of Rome.

• Pompey the Great subjugates Kingdom of Iberia and makes Colchis a Roman province.

Births

• December 8 – Horace, Roman poet (d. 8 BC)
• Gaius Asinius Pollio, Roman orator, poet and historian (d. AD 4)