80s BC
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80s BC is the time period from 89 BC – 80 BC.
Births
89 BC
- Empress Shangguan, wife to Emperor Zhao of Han (d. 37 BC)
87 BC
- Lucius Munatius Plancus, Roman consul (approximate date)
86 BC
- October 1 – Sallust, Roman historian (d. 34 BC)
- Fausta Cornelia, twin sister of Faustus Cornelius Sulla, wife of Gaius Memmius and later of Titus Annius Milo
- Faustus Cornelius Sulla, Roman senator, son of the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla (d. 46 BC)
85 BC
- Atia, niece of Julius Caesar and mother of Augustus (d. 43 BC)
- Marcus Junius Brutus, conspirator and assassin in the murder of Julius Caesar (approximate date)[1]
- Tiberius Claudius Nero, Roman politician and father of Tiberius (d. 33 BC)
84 BC
- Catullus, Roman poet (approximate date) (d. c. 54 BC)
- Servilius Casca, Roman politician (d. c. 42 BC)
- Surena, Parthian general (d. 53 BC)
83 BC
- Fulvia, Roman matron and wife of Mark Antony (approximate date)
- Julia, daughter of Julius Caesar and Cornelia[2]
- Mark Antony, Roman politician and General (who later married Cleopatra) (approximate date) (d. 30 BC)
82 BC
- May 28 – Licinius Macer Calvus, Roman orator and poet (d. c. 47 BC)
- Marcus Caelius Rufus, Roman orator and politician (d. c. 48 BC)
- Varro Atacinus, Roman poet and writer (d. c. 35 BC)
- Vercingetorix, Gaul warrior and leader (d. 46 BC)
80 BC
Deaths
89 BC
- Aulus Sempronius Asellio, Roman praetor (murdered by creditors)
- Lucius Porcius Cato, Roman politician and general
- Marcus Aemilius Scaurus, Roman politician (b. c. 163 BC)
- Titus Didius, killed in battle during the Social War
- Li Guangli, Chinese General-in-Chief (Han dynasty)
88 BC
- Demetrius III Eucaerus, king of the Seleucid Empire
- Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, Roman consul
- Lady Gouyi, mother of Zhao of Han (b. 113)
- Manius Aquillius, Roman consul and general
- Ptolemy X Alexander I, king (pharaoh) of Egypt
- Publius Sulpicius Rufus, Roman tribune of the plebs, murdered by Sulla
- Quintus Mucius Scaevola Augur, Roman consul
- Quintus Poppaedius Silo, Italian tribe leader
87 BC
- March 29 – Han Wudi, emperor of the Han dynasty (b. 157 BC)
- Apollodorus of Artemita, Greek writer
- Gaius Atilius Serranus, Roman consul and senator
- Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo, Roman politician
- Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, Roman general and politician
- Gotarzes I, ruler (shah) of the Parthian Empire
- Lucius Cornelius Merula, Roman politician and priest
- Lucius Julius Caesar, Roman consul (killed by partisans of Gaius Marius)
- Marcus Antonius, Roman consul (executed by order of Marius and Cinna)
- Publius Licinius Crassus, Roman consul and censor (killed by Marians invading Rome)
- Quintus Ancharius, Roman politician (executed by order of Marius and Cinna)
86 BC
- January 13 – Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician (b. c. 157 BC)[3]
- March 1 – Aristion, Greek philosopher and tyrant
- Jin Midi, Chinese politician and co-regent (b. 134 BC)
- Sima Qian, Chinese historian (b. 145 BC)
85 BC
- Gaius Julius Caesar, Roman politician (b. c. 140 BC)
- Mnesarchus of Athens, Stoic philosopher (b. c. 160 BC)
- Lucius Valerius Flaccus
84 BC
- Apellicon of Teos, Greek book collector (approximate date)
- Gaius Flavius Fimbria, Roman politician and general (suicide)
- Lucius Cornelius Cinna, Roman consul (killed by mutinying troops)
- Antiochus XII Dionysus, king of the Seleucid Empire (killed in battle)
83 BC
- Philip I Philadelphus, Seleucid king (approximate date)
82 BC
- Gaius Carrinas, Roman politician and general (executed by order of Sulla)
- Gaius Fabius Hadrianus, Roman politician and governor
- Gaius Marcius Censorinus, Roman politician and general (executed by order of Sulla)
- Gaius Marius the Younger, Roman politician (commits suicide)
- Gaius Norbanus, Roman consul and governor (commits suicide)
- Gnaeus Papirius Carbo, Roman consul (executed by order of Sulla)
- Marcus Marius Gratidianus, Roman praetor and politician (executed by order of Sulla)
- Quintus Mucius Scaevola Pontifex, Roman consul (murdered by order of Marius the Younger)
- Quintus Valerius Soranus, Roman politician and Latin poet (executed by order of Sulla)
81 BC
- Artaxias I (or Arshak), king of Iberia (Georgia)
- Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, Roman politician
- Ptolemy IX Lathyros, king of Ptolemaic Egypt
80 BC
- Berenice III, queen regnant of Egypt (b. 120 BC)
- Caecilia Metella Dalmatica, daughter of Lucius Caecilius Metellus Dalmaticus (approximate date)
- Lucius Cornelius Chrysogonus, Greek freedman
- Ptolemy XI Alexander II, king (pharaoh) of Egypt
- Sang Hongyang, Chinese politician of the Han dynasty
- Shangguan Jie, Chinese politician of the Han dynasty
- Princess Eyi, Han Chinese princess
References
[edit]- ^ Badian, E. (February 19, 2024). "Marcus Junius Brutus". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved February 23, 2024.
- ^ LeGlay, Marcel; Voisin, Jean-Louis; Le Bohec, Yann (2001). A History of Rome (Second ed.). Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell. p. 128. ISBN 0-631-21858-0.
- ^ Balsdon, John P.V. Dacre. "Gaius Marius". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved February 28, 2024.