Year 68 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Metellus/Vatia and Rex (or, less frequently...

68 may refer to: 68 (number) one of the years 68 BC, AD 68, 1968, 2068 68 Publishers, a Czech-Canadian publishing firm '68 (band), an American rock band...

This article concerns the period 69 BC – 60 BC. October 6 – Roman Republic troops under Lucius Lucullus defeat the army of Tigranes II of Armenia in the...

century BC, also known as the last century BC and the last century BCE, started on the first day of 100 BC and ended on the last day of 1 BC. The AD/BC notation...

aristocrat. He was praetor in 71 BC. He succeeded Gaius Verres as governor of Sicily in 70 BC. He died in office as consul in 68 BC. His co-consul was Quintus...

Magnus (Latin: [ˈŋnae̯ʊs pɔmˈpɛjjʊs ˈmaŋnʊs]; 29 September 106 BC – 28 September 48 BC), known in English as Pompey (/ˈpɒmpi/ POM-pee) or Pompey the Great...

BC, 107–88 BC) Berenice III, Pharaoh (101–88 BC, 81–80 BC) Ptolemy XI Alexander II, Pharaoh (80 BC) Ptolemy XII Auletes, Pharaoh (80–58 BC, 55–51 BC)...

praetor some time before 68 BC; T. R. S. Broughton in Magistrates of the Roman Republic dates the praetorship exactly to 68 BC. He then served as propraetorian...

Arsinoë IV (Greek: Ἀρσινόη; between 68 and 63 BC – 41 BC) was the fourth of six children and the youngest daughter of Ptolemy XII Auletes. Queen and co-ruler...

62 BC, he was an ally of Pompey and had served as urban praetor in 63, augur by 63 BC, possibly aedile in 67 BC, and plebeian tribune in either 72 or 68 BC...

Cleopatra V (Greek: Κλεοπάτρα Τρύφαινα; died c. 69–68 BC or c. 57 BC) was a Ptolemaic Queen of Egypt. She is the only surely attested wife of Ptolemy XII...

Pontus. 69 BC – Battle of Tigranocerta – Lucullus defeats the army of Tigranes II of Armenia, who was harbouring his father-in-law Mithridates. 68 BC – Battle...

Huo Guang (Chinese: 霍光; died 21 April 68 BC), courtesy name Zimeng (子孟), was a Chinese military general and politician who served as the dominant state...

Gaius Cilnius Maecenas ([ˈɡäːiʊs̠ ˈkɪɫ̪niʊs̠ mäe̯ˈkeːnäːs̠] 13 April 68 BC – 8 BC) was a friend and political advisor to Octavian (who later reigned as...

governance of Anatolia to the praetorian model in 68 BC. The piracy strategy initiated by Servilius in 78–75 BC was suspended during the years of fighting Mithridates...

praetor in 144 BC who constructed the Aqua Marcia. He was elected consul for 68 BC with Lucius Caecilius Metellus. Metellus died near the start of the year...

Year 69 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Hortensius and Metellus (or, less frequently...

Nabataean Arab origin. Members of the dynasty, the Abgarids, reigned between 134 BC and 242 AD over Edessa and Osroene in Upper Mesopotamia. Some members of the...

214 AD – Kingdom of Osroene 125 to 68 BC – Antiochus of Ascalon, the pioneer of Middle Platonism 110 to 40/35 BC – Philodemus Epicurean philosopher and...

Pheroras (Greek: Φερώρας; c. 68 BC–c. 5 BC), probably born in Marissa (Idumea), was the youngest son of Antipater I and his wife Cypros and younger brother...

The 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 66 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lepidus and Tullus (or, less frequently...

Waterfront Situation". BC Studies (22): 68. BC Labour Heritage Centre (April 16, 2018). "The Shooting of Frank Rogers". Working People Built BC. Archived from...

The Third Mithridatic War (73–63 BC), the last and longest of the three Mithridatic Wars, was fought between Mithridates VI of Pontus and the Roman Republic...

Liu Zun (Chinese: 劉尊, died 68 BC), posthumously King Huai of Zhao (趙懷王), was the ruler of Zhao Kingdom from 73 BC to 68 BC during the Western Han dynasty...

Year 70 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Pompeius and Crassus (or, less frequently...

Lucius Licinius Lucullus (/ljuːˈkʌləs/; 118–57/56 BC) was a Roman general and statesman, closely connected with Lucius Cornelius Sulla. In culmination...

adoptions, particularly so-called "testamentary adoptions" (famously in 59 BC when the patrician Clodius Pulcher was adopted into a plebeian gens in order...

Hulugu Chanyu. He ruled as the Chanyu of the Xiongnu Empire from 85 to 68 BC. Huyandi was not first in the line of succession and only became chanyu...

accession of Den, the sixth king of the dynasty, between 2928 and 2911 BC with 68% confidence, although a 2023 radiocarbon analysis placed Den's accession...