79 BC

Millennium: 1st millennium BC
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79 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar79 BC
LXXIX BC
Ab urbe condita675
Ancient Egypt eraXXXIII dynasty, 245
- PharaohPtolemy XII Auletes, 2
Ancient Greek era175th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar4672
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−671
Berber calendar872
Buddhist calendar466
Burmese calendar−716
Byzantine calendar5430–5431
Chinese calendar辛丑年 (Metal Ox)
2619 or 2412
    — to —
壬寅年 (Water Tiger)
2620 or 2413
Coptic calendar−362 – −361
Discordian calendar1088
Ethiopian calendar−86 – −85
Hebrew calendar3682–3683
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−22 – −21
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga3022–3023
Holocene calendar9922
Iranian calendar700 BP – 699 BP
Islamic calendar722 BH – 720 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar2255
Minguo calendar1990 before ROC
民前1990年
Nanakshahi calendar−1546
Seleucid era233/234 AG
Thai solar calendar464–465
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

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.