77 BC Facts for Kids

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 various 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

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.

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