88 BC

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.

Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries:
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88 BC by topic
Politics
  • State leaders
  • Political entities
Categories
  • Births
  • Deaths
88 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar88 BC
LXXXVII BC
Ab urbe condita666
Ancient Egypt eraXXXIII dynasty, 236
- PharaohPtolemy IX Lathyros, 1
Ancient Greek era173rd Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar4663
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−680
Berber calendar863
Buddhist calendar457
Burmese calendar−725
Byzantine calendar5421–5422
Chinese calendar壬辰年 (Water Dragon)
2609 or 2549
    — to —
癸巳年 (Water Snake)
2610 or 2550
Coptic calendar−371 – −370
Discordian calendar1079
Ethiopian calendar−95 – −94
Hebrew calendar3673–3674
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−31 – −30
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga3013–3014
Holocene calendar9913
Iranian calendar709 BP – 708 BP
Islamic calendar731 BH – 730 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar2246
Minguo calendar1999 before ROC
民前1999年
Nanakshahi calendar−1555
Seleucid era224/225 AG
Thai solar calendar455–456
Tibetan calendar阳水龙年
(male Water-Dragon)
39 or −342 or −1114
    — to —
阴水蛇年
(female Water-Snake)
40 or −341 or −1113

Events

Roman Republic
  • The Social War ends with the defeat of the Italian allies by the Romans. Lucius Cornelius Sulla, age 50, 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]
  • The First Roman Civil War starts with an uprising led by Gaius Marius, but the populares under the tribune P. Sulpicius Rufus are crushed by the optimates under Sulla. Marius flees to Africa.
  • First Civil War in Rome, between Marius and Sulla. Some Italian cities are destroyed: for instance, Forlì, rebuilt by the praetor Livius Clodius afterwards.
  • 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]

Births

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 statesman
  • Quintus Mucius Scaevola Augur, Roman consul
  • Quintus Poppaedius Silo, Italian tribe leader

References
  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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