73 BC

Year 73 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lucullus and Longinus (or, less frequently, year 681 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 73 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.

Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
73 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar73 BC
LXXII BC
Ab urbe condita681
Ancient Egypt eraXXXIII dynasty, 251
- PharaohPtolemy XII Auletes, 8
Ancient Greek era176th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar4678
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−665
Berber calendar878
Buddhist calendar472
Burmese calendar−710
Byzantine calendar5436–5437
Chinese calendar丁未年 (Fire Goat)
2624 or 2564
     to 
戊申年 (Earth Monkey)
2625 or 2565
Coptic calendar−356 – −355
Discordian calendar1094
Ethiopian calendar−80 – −79
Hebrew calendar3688–3689
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−16 – −15
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga3028–3029
Holocene calendar9928
Iranian calendar694 BP – 693 BP
Islamic calendar715 BH – 714 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar2261
Minguo calendar1984 before ROC
民前1984年
Nanakshahi calendar−1540
Seleucid era239/240 AG
Thai solar calendar470–471
Tibetan calendar阴火羊年
(female Fire-Goat)
54 or −327 or −1099
     to 
阳土猴年
(male Earth-Monkey)
55 or −326 or −1098
Movements of Roman and Slave forces from the Capuan revolt up to the end of winter 73–72 BC in Southern Italy.

Events

Roman Republic

  • Third Servile War: Spartacus, a Thracian gladiator, escapes with around 70 slave-gladiators from a gladiator school at Capua. They defeat a small Roman force and equip themselves with captured military equipment as well with gladiatorial weapons. Spartacus and his band of gladiators plunder the region surrounding Capua and retire to a defensible position on Mount Vesuvius.[1]
  • Battle of Mount Vesuvius: Spartacus defeats a Roman militia force (3,000 men) under Gaius Claudius Glaber. The rebel slaves spend the winter of 73–72 BC training, arming and equipping their new recruits, as well as expanding their raiding territory, which includes the towns of Nola, Nuceria, Thurii and Metapontum.

Births

Deaths

  • Devabhuti, king of the Shunga Empire
  • Gaius Aurelius Cotta, Roman statesman and orator
  • Heli, king of Britain (approximate date)

References

  1. Appian, Civil Wars, 1:116; Florus, Epitome, 2.8; - Florus and Appian make the claim that the slaves withdrew to Mount Vesuvius, while Plutarch only mentions "a hill" in the account of Glaber's siege of the slave's encampment.
  2. "Herod | Biography & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved April 7, 2019.
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