70 BC: Information from Answers.com

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:	73 BC 72 BC 71 BC – 70 BC – 69 BC 68 BC 67 BC

70 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments v • d • e

**70 BC in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	70 BC
Ab urbe condita	684
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1913 – -1912
Berber calendar	881
Buddhist calendar	475
Burmese calendar	-707
Byzantine calendar	5439 – 5440
Chinese calendar	[[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2567/2627) — to — [[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2568/2628)
Coptic calendar	-353 – -352
Ethiopian calendar	-77 – -76
Hebrew calendar	3691 – 3692
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-14 – -13
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3032 – 3033
Holocene calendar	9931
Iranian calendar	691 BP – 690 BP
Islamic calendar	712 BH – 711 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2264
Thai solar calendar	474
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Year 70 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

August—In Rome, Cicero prosecutes former governor Verres; Verres exiles himself to Marseille before the trial is over.
Pompey and Marcus Licinius Crassus become consul.
The office of censor is reinstated in the Roman Republic.
Lucullus captures Sinop, then invades Armenia.

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