87 BC

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Millennium:	1st millennium BC
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
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
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Births – Deaths
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87 BC in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	87 BC
Ab urbe condita	667
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4664
Bahá'í calendar	−1930 – −1929
Bengali calendar	−679
Berber calendar	864
English Regnal year	N/A
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	3015–3016
Holocene calendar	9914
Igbo calendar	−1086 – −1085
Iranian calendar	708 BP – 707 BP
Islamic calendar	730 BH – 729 BH
Japanese calendar	N/A
Juche calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2247
Minguo calendar	1998 before ROC 民前1998年
Thai solar calendar	457
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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.

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Technology

Antikythera mechanism manufactured.

Births

Lucius Munatius Plancus, consul 42 BC (approximate date) (d. c. 15 BC)

Deaths

Marcus Antonius Orator, Roman consul (executed by order of Marius and Cinna)
March 29 – Han Wudi, emperor of the Han Dynasty (b. 156 BC)
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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