88 BC
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| Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
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| 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: | 91 BC 90 BC 89 BC – 88 BC – 87 BC 86 BC 85 BC |
| 88 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 88 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 666 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Assyrian calendar | 4663 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1931–-1930 |
| Bengali calendar | -680 |
| Berber calendar | 863 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 457 |
| Burmese calendar | -725 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5421–5422 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬辰年 (2549/2609) — to —
癸巳年(2550/2610) |
| Coptic calendar | -371–-370 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -95–-94 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3673–3674 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | -31–-30 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3014–3015 |
| Holocene calendar | 9913 |
| Iranian calendar | 709 BP – 708 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 731 BH – 730 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2246 |
| Minguo calendar | 1999 before ROC 民前1999年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 456 |
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Year 88 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sulla and Rufus (or, less frequently, year 666 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 88 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
- The Social War ends with the defeat of the Italian allies by the Romans.
- The First Roman Civil War starts with democratic uprising led by Gaius Marius, but the democrats under the tribune P. Sulpicius Rufus are crushed by the conservatives under Sulla. Marius flees to Africa.
- First Civil War in Rome, between Marius and Sulla. Some Italian cities are destroyed: for instance, Feorlì, rebuilt by the praetor Livius Clodius afterwards.
- The Dardani, Scordisci, and the Maedi attack the Roman province of Macedonia.
[edit] Greece
- Mithridates VI of Pontus invades Greece.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- Publius Sulpicius Rufus, Roman tribune (b. c. 121 BC)
- Mithridates II of Parthia
