86 BC

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Contents

Events

By place

Rome

Births

Deaths

Events

By place

Rome

★ First Mithridatic War

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★ March 1 — Sulla captured Athens from the Pontic army, removing the tyrant Aristion.

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★ Lucius Licinius Lucullus decisively defeated the Mithridatic fleet in the Battle of Tenedos.

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★ 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