73 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:	76 BC 75 BC 74 BC - 73 BC - 72 BC 71 BC 70 BC

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

**73 BC in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	73 BC
Ab urbe condita	681
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1916 – -1915
Berber calendar	878
Buddhist calendar	472
Burmese calendar	-710
Byzantine calendar	5436 – 5437
Chinese calendar	[[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2564/2624) — to — [[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2565/2625)
Coptic calendar	-356 – -355
Ethiopian calendar	-80 – -79
Hebrew calendar	3688 – 3689
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-17 – -16
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3029 – 3030
Holocene calendar	9928
Iranian calendar	694 BP – 693 BP
Islamic calendar	715 BH – 714 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2261
Thai solar calendar	471
v • d • e

Year 73 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

Traditional date that Lud became King of Britain, according to Geoffrey of Monmouth.

Third Servile War begins — Slave uprising under leadership of Spartacus begins in Italy, who defeats the praetor Variniuss.

Categories: 73 BC

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