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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.

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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.

    • Asia

  • March 29 – Emperor Han Wudi 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 Korea in the east, and to northern Vietnam in the south.

    • Technology

  • Antikythera mechanism manufactured.

    • Births

  • Lucius Munatius Plancus, consul 42 BC (approximate date) (d. c. 15 BC)

    • Deaths

  • March 29 – Han Wudi, emperor of the Han Dynasty (b. 156 BC)
  • Marcus Antonius Orator, Roman consul (executed by order of Marius and Cinna)
  • 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)

    • References

    87 BC Wikipedia
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