87 BC
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century |
| Decades: | 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC – 80s BC – 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC |
| Years: | 90 BC 89 BC 88 BC – 87 BC – 86 BC 85 BC 84 BC |
| 87 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 87 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 667 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Assyrian calendar | 4664 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1930–-1929 |
| Bengali calendar | -679 |
| Berber calendar | 864 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 458 |
| Burmese calendar | -724 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5422–5423 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸巳年 (2550/2610) — to —
甲午年(2551/2611) |
| Coptic calendar | -370–-369 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -94–-93 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3674–3675 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | -30–-29 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3015–3016 |
| Holocene calendar | 9914 |
| Iranian calendar | 708 BP – 707 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 730 BH – 729 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2247 |
| Minguo calendar | 1998 before ROC 民前1998年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 457 |
 |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: 87 BC |
Year 87 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Octavius and Cinna/Merula (or, less frequently, year 667 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 87 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.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Roman Republic
- Lucius Cornelius Cinna is elected consul of Rome, thus returning the rule of Rome back to the democrats.
- Sulla arrives in Greece and besieges Athens. He orders Lucius Licinius Lucullus to raise a fleet from Rome's allies around the eastern Mediterranean.
- Ostia is razed by Gaius Marius as he comes back from Africa with an army to take Rome by force.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Technology
- Antikythera mechanism manufactured.
[edit] Births
- Lucius Munatius Plancus, consul 42 BC (approximate date) (d. c. 15 BC)
[edit] Deaths
- Marcus Antonius Orator, Roman consul (executed by order of Marius and Cinna)
- Han Wudi, emperor of China (b. 156 BC)
- Lucius Cornelius Merula, Roman priest (suicide)
- Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, Roman general and father of Pompey the Great (disease)
- Publius Licinius Crassus, Roman consul, censor and father of Marcus Licinius Crassus (killed by Marians invading Rome)
