67 BC

By place

Roman Republic

• Consuls: Manius Acilius Glabrio and Gaius Calpurnius Piso.
• During Pompey's war against the pirates, he raises a fleet of 500 warships and fights with great success.
• The lex Gabinia gives Pompey command of the Mediterranean and its coasts for 50 miles inland for three years. He defeats the pirates in three months and pacifies Cilicia.
• Pompey divides the Mediterranean into 13 zones - six in the West and seven in the East - to each of which he assigns a fleet under an admiral.
• Pompey offers the ex-pirates and their families clemency, he settles them in agricultural colonies in eastern Mediterranean lands.
• Pompey takes over the command of Lucius Lucullus in the war against Mithridates VI, and reaps the fruit of the latter's victories.
• Lex Acilia Calpurnia: permanent exclusion from office in cases of electoral corruption.
• Lex Roscia theatralis.

  Judea

• Hyrcanus II becomes king of Judea, for first time, upon the death of his mother, Salome Alexandra.

  Pontus

• Mithridates VI invades Pontus and defeats a Roman army at the Battle of Zela.
• After his victory at Zela Mithridates started consolidating his power in Pontus; restoring his rule over his old kingdom.
• Lucullus returned to Pontus, but his troops refused to campaign for him any longer and he withdrew to Galatia.

  China

• December - The army of the Han Dynasty Chinese commander Zheng Ji is victorious over the Xiongnu in the Battle of Jushi.