87 BC
Encyclopedia : 8 : 87 : 87B : 87 BC
Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century
Decades: 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC - 80s BC - 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC
Years: 92 BC 91 BC 90 BC 89 BC 88 BC - 87 BC - 86 BC 85 BC 84 BC 83 BC 82 BC
Events
- Lucius Cornelius Cinna is elected consul of Rome, thus returning the rule of Rome back to the democrats.
- Antikythera mechanism manufactured
- Sulla arrived in Greece against Mithridates.
Births
- Lucius Munatius Plancus, consul 42 BC. (approximate date)
Deaths
- Marcus Antonius Orator, Roman consul (executed by order of Marius and Cinna)
- Han Wudi, emperor of China
- Lucius Cornelius Merula, Roman priest (suicide)
- Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, Roman general and father of Pompey the Great (disease)
- Publius Licinius Crassus, Roman consul, censor and father of Marcus Licinius Crassus (killed by Marians invading Rome)
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