79 BC

Year 79 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Vatia Isauricus and Claudius Pulcher (or, less frequently, year 675 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 79 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.

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC 1st century BC 1st century
Decades:	90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC
Years:	82 BC 81 BC 80 BC 79 BC 78 BC 77 BC 76 BC

79 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	79 BC LXXIX BC
Ab urbe condita	675
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 245
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy XII Auletes, 2
Ancient Greek era	175th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4672
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−671
Berber calendar	872
Buddhist calendar	466
Burmese calendar	−716
Byzantine calendar	5430–5431
Chinese calendar	辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 2619 or 2412     — to — 壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 2620 or 2413
Coptic calendar	−362 – −361
Discordian calendar	1088
Ethiopian calendar	−86 – −85
Hebrew calendar	3682–3683
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−22 – −21
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3022–3023
Holocene calendar	9922
Iranian calendar	700 BP – 699 BP
Islamic calendar	722 BH – 720 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2255
Minguo calendar	1990 before ROC 民前1990年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1546
Seleucid era	233/234 AG
Thai solar calendar	464–465
Tibetan calendar	阴金牛年 (female Iron-Ox) 48 or −333 or −1105     — to — 阳水虎年 (male Water-Tiger) 49 or −332 or −1104

Events

By place

Roman republic

• Sulla renounces his dictatorship.
• Cicero travels to Athens and then to Rhodes to continue his studies of philosophy and oratory.

Deaths

• Sulla dies in Campania