87 BC
| Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
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| Centuries: | 2nd century BC · 1st century BC · 1st century |
| Decades: | 110s BC · 100s BC · 90s BC · 80s BC · 70s BC · 60s BC · 50s BC |
| Years: | 90 BC · 89 BC · 88 BC · 87 BC · 86 BC · 85 BC · 84 BC |
| 87 BC by topic |
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| Gregorian calendar | 87 BC LXXXVI BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 667 |
| Ancient Egypt era | XXXIII dynasty, 237 |
| - Pharaoh | Ptolemy IX Lathyros, 2 |
| Ancient Greek era | 173rd Olympiad, year 2 |
| Assyrian calendar | 4664 |
| Bengali calendar | −679 |
| Berber calendar | 864 |
| Buddhist calendar | 458 |
| Burmese calendar | −724 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5422–5423 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 2610 or 2550 — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 2611 or 2551 |
| Coptic calendar | −370 – −369 |
| Discordian calendar | 1080 |
| Ethiopian calendar | −94 – −93 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3674–3675 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | −30 – −29 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3014–3015 |
| Holocene calendar | 9914 |
| Iranian calendar | 708 BP – 707 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 730 BH – 729 BH |
| Javanese calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | N/A |
| Korean calendar | 2247 |
| Minguo calendar | 1998 before ROC 民前1998年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −1554 |
| Seleucid era | 225/226 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 456–457 |
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The Han Dynasty in 87 BC (provinces in brown)
Year 87 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Octavius and Cinna/Merula (or, less frequently, year 667 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 87 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.
Events
By place
Roman Republic
- Lucius Cornelius Cinna is elected consul of Rome, thus returning the rule of Rome back to the democrats.
- Sulla arrives in Greece and besieges Athens. He orders Lucius Licinius Lucullus to raise a fleet from Rome's allies around the eastern Mediterranean.
- Ostia is razed by Gaius Marius as he comes back from Africa with an army to take Rome by force.
Asia
- March 29 – Emperor Han Wudi dies after a 54-year reign in which he leads the Han Dynasty (China) through its greatest expansion, the Empire's borders span from modern Kyrgyzstan in the west, to Korea in the east, and to northern Vietnam in the south.
By topic
Technology
- Antikythera mechanism manufactured.
Births
- Lucius Munatius Plancus, consul 42 BC (approximate date) (d. c. 15 BC)
Deaths
- March 29 – Han Wudi, emperor of the Han Dynasty (b. 156 BC)
- Marcus Antonius Orator, Roman consul (executed by order of Marius and Cinna)
- 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)
References
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