77 BC

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:	80 BC 79 BC 78 BC – 77 BC – 76 BC 75 BC 74 BC

77 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

77 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	77 BC LXXVI BC
Ab urbe condita	677
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 247
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy XII Auletes, 4
Ancient Greek era	175th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4674
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−669
Berber calendar	874
Buddhist calendar	468
Burmese calendar	−714
Byzantine calendar	5432–5433
Chinese calendar	癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 2620 or 2560     — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 2621 or 2561
Coptic calendar	−360 – −359
Discordian calendar	1090
Ethiopian calendar	−84 – −83
Hebrew calendar	3684–3685
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−20 – −19
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3024–3025
Holocene calendar	9924
Iranian calendar	698 BP – 697 BP
Islamic calendar	719 BH – 718 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2257
Minguo calendar	1988 before ROC 民前1988年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1544
Seleucid era	235/236 AG
Thai solar calendar	466–467
Tibetan calendar	阴水兔年 (female Water-Rabbit) 50 or −331 or −1103     — to — 阳木龙年 (male Wood-Dragon) 51 or −330 or −1102

Year 77 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

Events

Roman Republic

• Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, consul and leader of the democratic party, is defeated by Quintus Lutatius Catulus outside Rome.
• Pompeius marches to Spain to join with Quintus Metellus Pius. They try to stop the revolt of Quintus Sertorius, but do not succeed.
• The city of Tigranakert is built.

Births

• Liu Xiang, Chinese scholar, editor of the Shan Hai Jing, compilator of the Lienü zhuan, and father of Liu Xin (died 6 BC)

Deaths

• King Duttagamani of Sri Lanka