86 BC

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Year 86 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

By place

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.

Births

• October 1 — Sallust, Roman historian

Deaths

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

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