83 BC

Year 83 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Asiaticus and Norbanus (or, less frequently, year 671 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 83 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:
83 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar83 BC
LXXXII BC
Ab urbe condita671
Ancient Egypt eraXXXIII dynasty, 241
- PharaohPtolemy IX Lathyros, 6
Ancient Greek era174th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar4668
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−675
Berber calendar868
Buddhist calendar462
Burmese calendar−720
Byzantine calendar5426–5427
Chinese calendar丁酉年 (Fire Rooster)
2614 or 2554
     to 
戊戌年 (Earth Dog)
2615 or 2555
Coptic calendar−366 – −365
Discordian calendar1084
Ethiopian calendar−90 – −89
Hebrew calendar3678–3679
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−26 – −25
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga3018–3019
Holocene calendar9918
Iranian calendar704 BP – 703 BP
Islamic calendar726 BH – 725 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar2251
Minguo calendar1994 before ROC
民前1994年
Nanakshahi calendar−1550
Seleucid era229/230 AG
Thai solar calendar460–461
Tibetan calendar阴火鸡年
(female Fire-Rooster)
44 or −337 or −1109
     to 
阳土狗年
(male Earth-Dog)
45 or −336 or −1108

Events

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.[1]
  • 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.

Births

  • Fulvia, Roman matron and wife of Mark Antony (approximate date)
  • Julia, daughter of Julius Caesar and Cornelia (approximate date) (d. 54 BC)
  • Mark Antony, Roman politician and General (who later married Cleopatra) (approximate date) (d. 30 BC)

Deaths

  • Philip I Philadelphus, Seleucid king (approximate date)

References

  1. Nic Fields (2012). Osprey series: Command - Pompey, p. 7. ISBN 978-1-84908-572-4.
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