68 BC

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68 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 68 BC
LXVII BC
Ab urbe condita 686
Ancient Egypt era XXXIII dynasty, 256
- Pharaoh Ptolemy XII Auletes, 13
Ancient Greek era 178th Olympiad (victor
Assyrian calendar 4683
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −660
Berber calendar 883
Buddhist calendar 477
Burmese calendar −705
Byzantine calendar 5441–5442
Chinese calendar 壬子年 (Water  Rat)
2629 or 2569
     to 
癸丑年 (Water  Ox)
2630 or 2570
Coptic calendar −351 – −350
Discordian calendar 1099
Ethiopian calendar −75 – −74
Hebrew calendar 3693–3694
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat −11 – −10
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 3033–3034
Holocene calendar 9933
Iranian calendar 689 BP – 688 BP
Islamic calendar 710 BH – 709 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar N/A
Korean calendar 2266
Minguo calendar 1979 before ROC
民前1979年
Nanakshahi calendar −1535
Seleucid era 244/245 AG
Thai solar calendar 475–476
Tibetan calendar 阳水鼠年
(male Water-Rat)
59 or −322 or −1094
     to 
阴水牛年
(female Water-Ox)
60 or −321 or −1093

Year 68 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Metellus/Vatia and Rex (or, less frequently, year 686 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 68 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.

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