For the processor, see Intel 8086.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Domitian introduces the Capitoline Games.
• The Roman General Trajan, future emperor, begins a campaign to crush an uprising in Germany.
• Germany is divided into two provinces, Upper- and Lower-Germany.
• Roman legions face disaster in Dacia in the First Battle of Tapae, when Cornelius Fuscus, Praetorian prefect, launches a powerful offensive that becomes a failure. Encircled in the valley of Timi, he dies along with his entire army. Rome must pay tribute to the Dacians in exchange for a vague recognition of Rome's importance.

Asia

• Ban Gu (Pan Kou) and his sister Ban Zhao (Pan Tchao) compose a History of China.

Births

• September 19 — Antoninus Pius, Roman emperor (138–161).

Deaths