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89 BC
By place
Roman Republic
- Consuls: Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo and Lucius Porcius Cato.
- Social War:
- Roman forces under Lucius Porcius Cato are defeated by the Italian rebels in the Battle of Fucine Lake, Cato is killed.
- The Roman army of Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo decisively defeats the rebels in the Battle of Asculum.
- Lex Plautia Papiria extends citizenship to all Italians who applied for it within 60 days. The new citizens are enrolled in eight designated tribes, to prevent domination of the assemblies.
- Lex Pompeia grants Latin rights to cities in Cisalpine Gaul.
- Pompeii is annexed by the Roman Republic.
- Cicero ends his service in the Roman army.
Asia Minor
- Mithridates VI of Pontus invades Bithynia and Cappadocia, thus beginning the First Mithridatic War.
Xiongnu
- The former Han General-in-Chief Li Guangli, now the son-in-law of Hulugu Chanyu, is arrested and sacrificed to the gods to restore the health of Hulugu's mother.[1]
88 BC
By place
Roman Republic
- The Social War ends with the defeat of the Italian allies by the Romans.
- August: The consul Lucius Cornelius Sulla becomes the first Roman commander to march on Rome with his army and to capture the city by force. This extraordinary act is prompted by his desire to maintain his proconsular command for the First Mithridatic War in Asia Minor.[2] Sulla then murdered his enemy P. Sulpicius Rufus and forced Gaius Marius to flee to Africa.
- The Dardani, Scordisci, and the Maedi attack the Roman province of Macedonia.
Greece
- May – King Mithridates VI of Pontus invades Greece. Defeating the Roman forces four times in succession, he conquers Bithynia, Phrygia, Mysia, Lycia, Pamphylia, Ionia and Cappadocia. The Roman province of Asia is dismantled. On the king's orders, the local authorities in every city of the province round up and put to death all resident Italians in a single day (App.Mith.§§85–91). Plutarch (Sulla 24.4) says that 150,000 are killed, other sources calculate a figure of 80,000 people.[3]
China
- Emperor Wu of Han makes preparations for the six-year-old Liu Fuling to be made Crown Prince and establishes Huo Guang as the future regent. The emperor executes Fuling's mother Lady Gouyi so that she cannot dominate the state while Fuling is a child emperor.[4]
87 BC
By place
Roman Republic
- Lucius Cornelius Cinna is elected consul of Rome, thus returning the rule of Rome back to the populares faction.
- 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.
China
- March 29 – Emperor Wu of Han dies after a 54-year reign in which he leads the Han dynasty (China) through its greatest expansion. The Empire's borders span from modern Kyrgyzstan in the west, to Mongolia in the north, to Korea in the east, and to northern Vietnam in the south.
- March 30 – The eight-year-old Liu Fuling becomes emperor, with Huo Guang General-in-Chief and regent.[5]
By topic
Technology
- Antikythera mechanism manufactured.
86 BC
By place
Roman Republic
- First Mithridatic War
- March 1 – Sulla captures Athens from the Pontic army, removing the tyrant Aristion.
- Lucius Licinius Lucullus decisively defeats the Mithridatic fleet in the Battle of Tenedos.
- The Roman forces of Lucius Cornelius Sulla defeat the Pontic forces of Archelaus in the Battle of Chaeronea.
- The Dardani ally with Pontus and are defeated by Sulla soon after.
85 BC
By place
Roman Republic
- First Mithridatic War: Lucius Cornelius Sulla again defeats Archelaus in the decisive Battle of Orchomenus.
84 BC
By place
Asia
- Battle of Cana: The Arab Nabataean Kingdom decisively defeats the Greek Seleucid Empire, slaying King Antiochus XII Dionysus, at modern-day Umm Qais in Jordan.
Roman Republic
- The First Mithridatic War comes to an end.
- Julius Caesar marries Cornelia[6]
83 BC
By place
Roman Republic
- Spring – Lucius Cornelius Sulla returns to Italy from his campaigns in Greece and lands with his legions unopposed at Brundisium. He defeats the popular forces of Gaius Norbanus in the Battle of Mount Tifata.
- Gnaeus Pompeius, age 22, raises, on his own initiative, a private army of three legions from his father's veterans and clientelae in Picenum.[7]
- Lucius Licinius Murena, the Roman governor of Asia, clashes with the Pontic forces of Mithridates VI, starting the Second Mithridatic War.
- A fire breaks out which burns down the Temple of Jupiter (Jupiter Capitolinus) and destroys the collection of Sibylline Books.
- Two new buildings were completed on the Capitoline Hill in Rome: the Temple of Jupitor Optimus Maximus and the Tabularium.[8]
82 BC
By place
Roman Republic
- April: Sulla defeats the consul Gaius Marius the Younger at the Battle of Sacriportus, and takes control of Rome.
- November 1: Sulla defeats an army of Samnites and Lucanians alliance in the Battle of the Colline Gate.[9]
- November 2: Sulla slaughters the Samnite prisoners in the Villa publica; the senate rejects his proscription plan.[9]
- November 3: Sulla passes his proscription through a popular assembly; he publishes a list of 520 senators and equites to be murdered on sight.[9]
- Gaius Marius the Younger is besieged at the fortress city of Praeneste in Latium. After a fierce resistance, Marius commits suicide.
- Pompey is ordered by Sulla to stamp out Marian rebels in Sicily and Africa, after his campaigns in he gets the insulting nickname of adulescentulus carnifex, the "teenage butcher".
- Lucius Licinius Murena launches a raid against Pontus in the Battle of Halys, starting the Second Mithridatic War.
Dacia
- Burebista unifies the Dacian population forming the first (and biggest) unified Dacian Kingdom, on the territory of modern Romania and surroundings. 82 BC is also the starting year of his reign.
By topic
Astronomy
- The Aurigid shower parent comet C/1911 N1 (Kiess) returns to the inner solar system and sheds the dust particles that one revolution later cause the 1935, 1986, 1994, and 2007 Aurigid meteor outbursts on Earth.
81 BC
By place
Roman Republic
- Sulla is appointed dictator, executes his political enemies in a series of proscriptions, and implements aristocratic reforms to the Roman government.
- The Second Mithridatic War ends with the status quo.
- Cicero wins his first case.
China
- Sang Hongyang and 60 Confucian scholars debate over the state monopoly of Iron and Salt.
80 BC
By place
Roman Republic
- Quintus Sertorius re-enters Iberia with a tiny army (2,600 men) and opens a successful campaign against the Sullan forces.
- Battle of the Baetis River: A force of Populares exiles under Sertorius defeat the legal Roman army of Lucius Fulfidias in Hispania, starting the Sertorian War; Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius takes command on behalf of Sulla.
- Pompeii becomes the Roman colony Colonia Cornelia Veneria Pompei when Sulla occupies the city with at least 4,000 soldier-colonizers.[10]
Egypt
- Ptolemy XII Auletes succeeds Ptolemy XI Alexander II to the throne of Egypt.
- Ptolemy XI marries Berenice III, but murders his bride for unknown reasons.
- Alexandria comes under Roman jurisdiction.
By topic
Art
- Roman artists begin to extend the space of a room visually with painted scenes of figures on a shallow stage or with a landscape or cityscape.
Literature
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References
- ^ Hung, Hing Ming (2020). The Magnificent Emperor Wu: China's Han Dynasty. pp. 235–236. ISBN 978-1628944167.
- ^ Pompey, Command (p. 11). Nic Fields, 2012. ISBN 978-1-84908-572-4
- ^ Pompey, Command (p. 39). Nic Fields, 2012. ISBN 978-1-84908-572-4
- ^ Hung, Hing Ming (2020). The Magnificent Emperor Wu: China's Han Dynasty. pp. 237–239. ISBN 978-1628944167.
- ^ Hung, Hing Ming (2020). The Magnificent Emperor Wu: China's Han Dynasty. p. 239. ISBN 978-1628944167.
- ^ LeGlay, Marcel; Voisin, Jean-Louis; Le Bohec, Yann (2001). A History of Rome (Second ed.). Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell. p. 128. ISBN 0-631-21858-0.
- ^ Nic Fields (2012). Osprey series: Command - Pompey, p. 7. ISBN 978-1-84908-572-4.
- ^ Stambaugh, John E. (1988). The Ancient Roman City. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 40. ISBN 0-8018-3574-7.
- ^ a b c François Hinard, Les proscriptions de la Rome républicaine, Rome, Ecole française de Rome, 1985, pp. 108, 109, 116. ISBN 2728300941
- ^ Stambaugh, John E. (1988). The Ancient Roman City. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 263. ISBN 0-8018-3574-7.