86 BC

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[edit] Events

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[edit] Rome

• First Mithridatic War -
  • March 1 - Sulla captured Athens from the Pontic army, removing the tyrant Aristion.
  • Lucius Licinius Lucullus decisively defeated the Mithridatic fleet in the Battle of Tenedos.
  • The Roman forces of Lucius Cornelius Sulla defeat the Pontic forces of Archelaus in the Battle of Chaeronea.

[edit] Births

• October 1 - Sallust, Roman historian.

[edit] Deaths

• January 13 - Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician.
• After March 1 - Aristion, philosopher and tyrant of Athens.