65 BC

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Year 65 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

• In response to the illegal exercise of citizen rights by foreigners, the Roman Senate passed the Lex Papia, which expelled all foreigners from Rome.
• Tigranes of Armenia was defeated and captured by Pompey, thus ending all hostilities on the northeastern frontier of Rome.

Births

• December 8 — Horace, Roman poet (d. 8 BC).
• Gaius Asinius Pollio, Roman orator, poet and historian.

Deaths

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