90 BC

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Year 90 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

• Consuls: Lucius Julius Caesar and Publius Rutilius Lupus.
• Social War continues: Pompeius Strabo and Gaius Marius distinguish themselves.
• The Etruscans are granted Roman citizenship.
• Corfinium in south-central Italy is the center of a rebellion against Rome.
• The Lex Iulia grants citizenship to all Italians who did not oppose Rome during the Social War.
• Cicero starts to serve in the Roman army.

Anatolia

• Nicomedes IV of Bithynia is defeated in battle by a coalition of Nicomedes' brother Socrates, and Mithridates VI of Pontus. Nicomedes flees to Rome.

Births

• Aulus Hirtius, Roman politician and historian
• Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian (probable date)

Deaths

• Dionysios Trax, Greek linguist
• Antiochus X Eusebes, king of the Seleucid Empire (approximate date)
• Sima Qian, Chinese historian

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