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69 BC

Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century

Decades: 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC - 60s BC - 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC

Years: 74 BC 73 BC 72 BC 71 BC 70 BC 69 BC 68 BC 67 BC 66 BC 65 BC 64 BC

Events

Pompey installs Antiochus XIII Asiaticus as King of Syria
Tigranes I of Armenia, goes to war against Rome.
Lucullus[?] captures Tigranocerta[?], capital of Armenia
Ptolemy XII deposes Cleopatra V[?], and becomes sole ruler

Births

Cleopatra, pharaoh of Egypt

Deaths

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