34 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century
Decades:	60s BC  50s BC  40s BC  – 30s BC –  20s BC  10s BC  0s BC
Years:	37 BC 36 BC 35 BC – 34 BC – 33 BC 32 BC 31 BC

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Year 34 BC was either a common year starting on Friday, Saturday or Sunday or a leap year starting on Friday or Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Antonius and Libo.

Events

• Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian made Dalmatia and Pannonia happy by forming the province of Illyricum.
• Antony regained Armenia from Parthia. Octavian reduces the outposts defending the Liburnian town of Promona. He sets up siege works and forces them to surrender.
• Antony goes into Armenia with an army. He marches to the capital Artaxata. He arrests king Artavasdes II and takes him to Alexandria.
• The Donations of Alexandria: Antony distributes the eastern kingdoms as a gift to the children of Cleopatra VII of Egypt. Antony made Cleopatra a Hellenistic monarch at Alexandria. He gave her the title "Queen of Kings".

Deaths

• Sallust, historian of the fall of the Roman Republic (b. 86 BC)