Centuries:	2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century
Decades:	100s BC  90s BC  80s BC - 70s BC - 60s BC  50s BC  40s BC
Years:	73 BC 72 BC 71 BC - 70 BC - 69 BC 68 BC 67 BC

70 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments v • d • e

70 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	70 BC
Ab urbe condita	684
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1913 – -1912
Berber calendar	881
Buddhist calendar	475
Burmese calendar	-707
Byzantine calendar	5439 – 5440
Chinese calendar	[[Sexagenary cycle|]]年 (2567/2627) — to — [[Sexagenary cycle|]]年 (2568/2628)
Coptic calendar	-353 – -352
Ethiopian calendar	-77 – -76
Hebrew calendar	3691 – 3692
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-14 – -13
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3032 – 3033
Holocene calendar	9931
Iranian calendar	691 BP – 690 BP
Islamic calendar	712 BH – 711 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2264
Thai solar calendar	474
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Year 70 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

• 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.

Parthia

• 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) (d. 30 BC)
• Publius Cornelius Dolabella, Roman general (d. 43 BC)
• Maecenas, Roman politician and patron (d. 8 BC)

Deaths