71 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
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:	74 BC 73 BC 72 BC – 71 BC – 70 BC 69 BC 68 BC

71 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	71 BC LXX BC
Ab urbe condita	683
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 253
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy XII Auletes, 10
Ancient Greek era	177th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4680
Bengali calendar	−663
Berber calendar	880
Buddhist calendar	474
Burmese calendar	−708
Byzantine calendar	5438–5439
Chinese calendar	己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 2626 or 2566     — to — 庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 2627 or 2567
Coptic calendar	−354 – −353
Discordian calendar	1096
Ethiopian calendar	−78 – −77
Hebrew calendar	3690–3691
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−14 – −13
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3031–3032
Holocene calendar	9930
Iranian calendar	692 BP – 691 BP
Islamic calendar	713 BH – 712 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2263
Minguo calendar	1982 before ROC 民前1982年
Seleucid era	241/242 AG
Thai solar calendar	472–473

Year 71 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Orestes (or, less frequently, year 683 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 71 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

• Third Servile War ends; Slave rebellion under leadership of Spartacus is crushed by a Roman army under Marcus Licinius Crassus. Slaves taken prisoner are crucified all naked along the Via Appia.
• Marcus Antonius is defeated by the Cretans, who has made an alliance with the pirates, he is compelled to conclude a humiliating peace. Antonius dies in office the same year and is awarded, posthumously with the cognomen Creticus.
• Nessebar in modern-day Bulgaria comes under Roman rule.

Births

• Empress Wang Zhengjun (d. 13)

Deaths

• Marcus Antonius Creticus, Roman politician (father of Mark Antony)
• Spartacus, Roman slave and rebel leader (presumably killed in battle) (b. 109 BC)
• Castus, Rebel slave
• Gannicus, Rebel slave
• Empress Xu Pingjun