80 BC

Year 80 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 Metellus Pius (or, less frequently, year 674 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 80 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.

Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
80 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar80 BC
LXXIX BC
Ab urbe condita674
Ancient Egypt eraXXXIII dynasty, 244
- PharaohPtolemy XII Auletes, 1
Ancient Greek era175th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar4671
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−672
Berber calendar871
Buddhist calendar465
Burmese calendar−717
Byzantine calendar5429–5430
Chinese calendar庚子年 (Metal Rat)
2617 or 2557
     to 
辛丑年 (Metal Ox)
2618 or 2558
Coptic calendar−363 – −362
Discordian calendar1087
Ethiopian calendar−87 – −86
Hebrew calendar3681–3682
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−23 – −22
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga3021–3022
Holocene calendar9921
Iranian calendar701 BP – 700 BP
Islamic calendar723 BH – 722 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar2254
Minguo calendar1991 before ROC
民前1991年
Nanakshahi calendar−1547
Seleucid era232/233 AG
Thai solar calendar463–464
Tibetan calendar阳金鼠年
(male Iron-Rat)
47 or −334 or −1106
     to 
阴金牛年
(female Iron-Ox)
48 or −333 or −1105

Events

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.

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.

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

  • Meleager publishes his Garland, the earliest known anthology of Greek poetry.

Births

  • Scribonia, wife to the Roman Emperor Augustus (approximate date) (d. AD 16)

Deaths

  • Berenice III, queen regnant of Egypt (b. 120 BC)
  • Caecilia Metella Dalmatica, daughter of Lucius Caecilius Metellus Dalmaticus (approximate date)
  • Lucius Cornelius Chrysogonus, Greek freedman
  • Ptolemy XI Alexander II, king (pharaoh) of Egypt
  • Sang Hongyang, Chinese politician of the Han Dynasty
  • Shangguan Jie, Chinese politician of the Han Dynasty
  • Princess Eyi, Han Chinese princess

References

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