87 BC

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Year 87 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

• Lucius Cornelius Cinna is elected consul of Rome, thus returning the rule of Rome back to the democrats.
• Sulla arrived in Greece against Mithridates.
• Ostia was razed by Gaius Marius as he came back from Africa with an army to take Rome by force.

By topic

Technology

• Antikythera mechanism manufactured.

Births

• Lucius Munatius Plancus, consul 42 BC. (approximate date)

Deaths

• Marcus Antonius Orator, Roman consul (executed by order of Marius and Cinna)
• Han Wudi, emperor of China
• 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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