96 BC
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Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century
Decades: 140s BC 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC - 90s BC - 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC
Years: 101 BC 100 BC 99 BC 98 BC 97 BC - 96 BC - 95 BC 94 BC 93 BC 92 BC 91 BC
Events
- Asia
- * Start of the Taishi era in the Han Dynasty
- Roman Republic
- *Consuls: Gaius Cassius Longinus and Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus
- *Cyrene left to the people of Rome by its ruler Ptolemy Apion.
- Greece
- *Seleucus VI Epiphanes becomes king of the Seleucid Empire following the death of his father Antiochus VIII Grypus, and defeating in battle Antiochus IX Cyzicenus.
- Ptolemy Apion, king of Cyrene
- Antiochus VIII Grypus, king of the Seleucid Empire (murdered)
- Antiochus IX Cyzicenus, king of the Seleucid Empire (died in battle)
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