64 BC

Year 64 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Figulus (or, less frequently, year 690 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 64 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:	2nd century BC 1st century BC 1st century
Decades:	80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC
Years:	67 BC 66 BC 65 BC 64 BC 63 BC 62 BC 61 BC

64 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	64 BC LXIV BC
Ab urbe condita	690
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 260
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy XII Auletes, 17
Ancient Greek era	179th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4687
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−656
Berber calendar	887
Buddhist calendar	481
Burmese calendar	−701
Byzantine calendar	5445–5446
Chinese calendar	丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 2634 or 2427     — to — 丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 2635 or 2428
Coptic calendar	−347 – −346
Discordian calendar	1103
Ethiopian calendar	−71 – −70
Hebrew calendar	3697–3698
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−7 – −6
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3037–3038
Holocene calendar	9937
Iranian calendar	685 BP – 684 BP
Islamic calendar	706 BH – 705 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2270
Minguo calendar	1975 before ROC 民前1975年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1531
Seleucid era	248/249 AG
Thai solar calendar	479–480
Tibetan calendar	阳火龙年 (male Fire-Dragon) 63 or −318 or −1090     — to — 阴火蛇年 (female Fire-Snake) 64 or −317 or −1089

Coin of Antiochus XIII (r. 69–64 BC)

Events

By place

Roman Republic

• Pompey destroys the kingdom of Pontus; king Mithridates VI commits suicide after escaping to the Crimea.
• Pompey annexes Syria and captures Jerusalem, annexing Judea.

Syria

• King Antiochus XIII Asiaticus is deposed and killed by the Syrian chieftain Sampsiceramus I – this is considered by some the end of the Seleucid dynasty.

• 64 BC Syria earthquake, mentioned in catalogues of historical earthquakes. It affected the region of Syria and may have caused structural damage in the city of Jerusalem.

Births

• Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, Roman general and consul (d. AD 8)
• Nicolaus of Damascus, Jewish historian and philosopher (approximate date)
• Strabo, Greek philosopher and historian in Amaseia

Deaths

• Antiochus XIII Asiaticus, king of the Seleucid Empire

References

Bibliography

• Karcz, Iaakov (2004). "Implications of some early Jewish sources for estimates of earthquake hazard in the Holy Land". Annals of Geophysics. 47: 759–792. Retrieved April 2, 2020.