88 BC

88 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	88 BC; LXXXVIII BC
Ab urbe condita	666
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 236
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy IX Lathyros, 1
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer)	173rd Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4663
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−681 – −680
Berber calendar	863
Buddhist calendar	457
Burmese calendar	−725
Byzantine calendar	5421–5422
Chinese calendar	壬辰年 (Water Dragon); 2610 or 2403; — to —; 癸巳年 (Water Snake); 2611 or 2404
Coptic calendar	−371 – −370
Discordian calendar	1079
Ethiopian calendar	−95 – −94
Hebrew calendar	3673–3674
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−31 – −30
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3013–3014
Holocene calendar	9913
Iranian calendar	709 BP – 708 BP
Islamic calendar	731 BH – 730 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2246
Minguo calendar	1999 before ROC; 民前1999年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1555
Seleucid era	224/225 AG
Thai solar calendar	455–456
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་; (male Water-Dragon); 39 or −342 or −1114; — to —; ཆུ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་; (female Water-Snake); 40 or −341 or −1113

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) and the First Year of Houyuan. 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.

Events

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

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.^[3]

Deaths

Demetrius III Eucaerus, king of the Seleucid Empire
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, Roman consul
Lady Gouyi, mother of Zhao of Han (b. 113)
Manius Aquillius, Roman consul and general
Ptolemy X Alexander I, king (pharaoh) of Egypt
Publius Sulpicius Rufus, Roman tribune of the plebs, murdered by Sulla
Quintus Mucius Scaevola Augur, Roman consul
Quintus Poppaedius Silo, Italian tribe leader

References

^ 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.

[1] Pompey, Command (p. 11). Nic Fields, 2012. ISBN 978-1-84908-572-4

[2] Pompey, Command (p. 39). Nic Fields, 2012. ISBN 978-1-84908-572-4

[3] Hung, Hing Ming (2020). The Magnificent Emperor Wu: China's Han Dynasty. pp. 237–239. ISBN 978-1628944167.

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