Events

• 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.
• 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

70 BC

70 aC | 70 př. n. l. | 70 f.Kr. | 70 v. Chr. | 70 eKr | 70 adC | -70 | K. a. 70 | -70 | 기원전 70년 | 70 p.n.e. | 70 aK | 70 SM | 70 a.C. | 70 לפנה"ס | -70 | I. e. 70 | 70 SM | 70 v. Chr. | 70 AC | 70 f.Kr. | -70 | 70 p.n.e. | 70 a.C. | 70 î.Hr. | 70 до н. э. | 70 pred Kr. | 70 pr. n. št. | 70. пне. | 70 eaa | 70 f.Kr. | MA 70 | พ.ศ. 474 | 70 до Р.Х. | 前70年