61 BC

__NOTOC__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
*Marcus Pupius Piso Frugi as consul attempts to gain ratification of Pompey's Eastern Settlement.
*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