87 BC

87 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar87 BC
LXXXVII BC
Ab urbe condita667
Ancient Egypt eraXXXIII dynasty, 237
- PharaohPtolemy IX Lathyros, 2
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer)173rd Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar4664
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−680 – −679
Berber calendar864
Buddhist calendar458
Burmese calendar−724
Byzantine calendar5422–5423
Chinese calendar癸巳年 (Water Snake)
2611 or 2404
    — to —
甲午年 (Wood Horse)
2612 or 2405
Coptic calendar−370 – −369
Discordian calendar1080
Ethiopian calendar−94 – −93
Hebrew calendar3674–3675
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−30 – −29
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga3014–3015
Holocene calendar9914
Iranian calendar708 BP – 707 BP
Islamic calendar730 BH – 729 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar2247
Minguo calendar1998 before ROC
民前1998年
Nanakshahi calendar−1554
Seleucid era225/226 AG
Thai solar calendar456–457
Tibetan calendarཆུ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་
(female Water-Snake)
40 or −341 or −1113
    — to —
ཤིང་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་
(male Wood-Horse)
41 or −340 or −1112
The Han dynasty in 87 BC (provinces in brown)

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 and the Second Year of Houyuan. 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.

Events

By place

Roman Republic

  • Gnaeus Octavius and Lucius Cornelius Cinna are inaugurated as consuls. With Cinna seeking to enrol the Italians into all the tribes per vim, he is expelled from the city by Octavius and replaced as consul by Lucius Merula. Mobilising against the regime at Rome, Cinna marches on the city, occupies it with the support of Gaius Marius, and regains his consulship. In the aftermath Octavius is killed, Merula is forced to suicide.[1]
  • First Mithridatic War: Siege of Athens (87–86 BC) – Sulla arrives in Greece and from Autumn besieges Athens. He orders Lucius Licinius Lucullus to raise a fleet from Rome's allies around the eastern Mediterranean.

China

By topic

Technology

Astronomy

  • Halley's Comet makes its third confirmed apparition, recorded by Babylonian scribes as being visible in the sky "day beyond day" for about one month. [3]

Births

  • Lucius Munatius Plancus, Roman consul (approximate date)

Deaths

  • March 29 – Han Wudi, emperor of the Han dynasty (b. 157 BC)
  • Apollodorus of Artemita, Greek writer
  • Gaius Atilius Serranus, Roman consul and senator
  • Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo, Roman politician
  • Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, Roman general and politician
  • Gotarzes I, ruler (shah) of the Parthian Empire
  • Lucius Cornelius Merula, Roman politician and priest
  • Lucius Julius Caesar, Roman consul (killed by partisans of Gaius Marius)
  • Marcus Antonius, Roman consul (executed by order of Marius and Cinna)
  • Publius Licinius Crassus, Roman consul and censor (killed by Marians invading Rome)
  • Quintus Ancharius, Roman politician (executed by order of Marius and Cinna)

References

  1. ^ Broughton 1952, pp. 45–46.
  2. ^ Hung, Hing Ming (2020). The Magnificent Emperor Wu: China's Han Dynasty. Algora. p. 239. ISBN 978-1628944167.
  3. ^ Stephenson, F. R.; Yau, K. K. C.; Hunger, H. (April 1985). "Records of Halley's comet on Babylonian tablets". Nature. 314 (6012): 587–592. doi:10.1038/314587a0. ISSN 1476-4687.

Bibliography

  • Broughton, Thomas Robert Shannon (1952). The magistrates of the Roman republic. Vol. 2. New York: American Philological Association.
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