65 BC

The year 65 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cotta and Torquatus (or, less frequently, the year 689 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 65 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.

Roman Republic

 * In response to the illegal exercise of citizen rights by foreigners, the Roman Senate passes the Lex Papia, which expels all foreigners from Rome
 * Tigranes of Armenia is defeated and captured by Pompey, thus ending all hostilities on the northeastern frontier of Rome.
 * Pompey the Great subjugates the kingdom of Iberia and makes Colchis a Roman province.

Western Han Empire

 * 9th year of the reign of Emperor Xuan of Han

Births

 * December 8 – Horace, Roman poet (d. 8 BC)
 * Gaius Asinius Pollio, Roman orator, poet and historian (d. AD 4)

Deaths

 * Xiphares, son of Mithridates VI (b. c. 85 BC)