61 BC

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Year 61 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

• September 29 — Pompey, the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars
• Gaius Julius Caesar takes command in Spain

Births

• Prince Ptolemy of Egypt, later Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII of Egypt (or 62 BC)

Deaths

• Quintus Lutatius Catulus

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