90 BC

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Contents

Events

By place

Rome

Anatolia

Births

Deaths

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