| Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century |
| Decades: | 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC – 60s BC – 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC |
| Years: | 65 BC 64 BC 63 BC – 62 BC – 61 BC 60 BC 59 BC |
| 62 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 62 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 692 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1905 – -1904 |
| Berber calendar | 889 |
| Buddhist calendar | 483 |
| Burmese calendar | -699 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5447 – 5448 |
| Chinese calendar | [[Sexagenary cycle|]]年 (2575/2635) — to —
[[Sexagenary cycle|]]年(2576/2636) |
| Coptic calendar | -345 – -344 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -69 – -68 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3699 – 3700 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | -6 – -5 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3040 – 3041 |
| Holocene calendar | 9939 |
| Iranian calendar | 683 BP – 682 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 704 BH – 703 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2272 |
| Thai solar calendar | 482 |
Year 62 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Rome
- January 5—The forces of the conspirator Catiline are defeated by the loyal Roman armies of Antonius Hybrida led by Gaius Antonius in the Battle of Pistoria.
- Julius Caesar divorces Pompeia, following the sacrilege of Clodius.
- Cicero delivers his Pro Archia Poeta in defense of Aulus Licinius Archias' claim to Roman citizenship.
- Cato the Younger, as tribune, presents a lex frumentaria (enacting a grain dole)
- Metellus Nepos, also tribune, leaves Rome.
- Caesar and Bibulus are praetors.
Commagene
- King Antiochus I Theos of Commagene builds his mountain-top tomb-sanctuary at Mount Nemrut.
Births
- Prince Ptolemy of Egypt, later Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII of Egypt (or 61 BC)
Deaths
- Lucius Sergius Catilina, Roman statesman, at the battle of Pistoria (b. 108 BC)
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