87 BC

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Contents

Events

By place

Rome

By topic

Technology

Births

Deaths

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

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)