96 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century
Decades:	120s BC  110s BC  100s BC  – 90s BC –  80s BC  70s BC  60s BC
Years:	99 BC 98 BC 97 BC – 96 BC – 95 BC 94 BC 93 BC

96 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

96 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	96 BC
Ab urbe condita	658
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4655
Bahá'í calendar	-1939–-1938
Bengali calendar	-688
Berber calendar	855
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	449
Burmese calendar	-733
Byzantine calendar	5413–5414
Chinese calendar	甲申年 (2541/2601) — to — 乙酉年 (2542/2602)
Coptic calendar	-379–-378
Ethiopian calendar	-103–-102
Hebrew calendar	3665–3666
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-39–-38
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3006–3007
Holocene calendar	9905
Iranian calendar	717 BP – 716 BP
Islamic calendar	739 BH – 738 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2238
Minguo calendar	2007 before ROC 民前2007年
Thai solar calendar	448

Year 96 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Ahenobarbus and Longinus (or, less frequently, year 658 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 96 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.

Events

By place

Roman Republic

• Consuls: Gaius Cassius Longinus and Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus
• Cyrene is left to the people of Rome by its ruler Ptolemy Apion.

Greece

• Seleucus VI Epiphanes becomes king of the Seleucid Empire following the death of his father Antiochus VIII Grypus, and defeating in battle Antiochus IX Cyzicenus.

Asia

• Start of the Taishi era in the Han Dynasty.

Deaths

• Ptolemy Apion, king of Cyrene
• Antiochus VIII Grypus, king of the Seleucid Empire (murdered)
• Antiochus IX Cyzicenus, king of the Seleucid Empire (died in battle)