Editing 65 BC

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The year '''65 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. At the time, it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Cotta and Torquatus''' (or, less frequently, the '''year 689 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 65 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.

== Events ==
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=== By place ===

==== Roman Republic ====
* In response to the illegal exercise of [[citizen rights]] by foreigners, the [[Roman Senate]] passes the ''Lex Papia'', which expels all foreigners from [[Rome]]<ref>Husband, R. (1916). On the Expulsion of Foreigners from Rome. ''Classical Philology'', 11(3), 315-333. Retrieved March 11, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/261855</ref>
* [[Tigranes]] of [[Armenia]] is defeated and captured by [[Pompey]], thus ending all hostilities on the northeastern frontier of Rome.
* [[Pompey|Pompey the Great]] [[Pompey's Georgian campaign|subjugates]] the [[Kingdom of Iberia (antiquity)|kingdom of Iberia]] and makes [[Colchis]] a [[Roman province]].

==== Western Han Empire ====
*9th year of the reign of [[Emperor Xuan of Han]]
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== Births ==
* [[December 8]] &ndash; [[Horace]], [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] [[poet]] (d. [[8 BC]])<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Horace-Roman-poet | access-date=February 22, 2024 | title=Horace | first=Michael | last=Grant | series=Encyclopaedia Britannica}}</ref>
* [[Gaius Asinius Pollio (consul 40 BC)|Gaius Asinius Pollio]], [[Roman Republic|Roman]] [[orator]], [[poet]] and [[historian]] (d. [[AD 4]])<ref>[[Jerome]] (''[[Chronicon (Jerome)|Chronicon]]'' [http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/jerome_chronicle_03_part2.htm 2020]) says he died in AD 4 in the seventieth year of his life, which would place the year of his birth at 65 BC.</ref>

== Deaths ==
* [[Xiphares]], son of [[Mithridates VI Eupator|Mithridates VI]] (b. c. 85 BC)

== References ==
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