87 BC
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Heads of State
Year of the Wood horse甲午( at the beginning of the year, water - snake癸巳)
Syria: 225/226
Events
Politics and World Affairs
- Civil war in Rome: After Sulla's departure to Asia Minor Gaius Marius takes over along with Lucius Cornelius Cinna power in Rome.
- The siege of Athens in the First Mithridatic War by Sulla begins.
Science and Technology
- Philo of Larissa criticized in two books the conditions prevailing in the Platonic Academy skepticism, but retains its core ideas. This leads to a break with Antiochus of Ascalon, who has turned away entirely from this flow.
Born
- 87 BC: Gaius Cassius Longinus, Roman politician ( † 42 BC)
- 87 BC: Lucius Munatius Plancus, Roman politician ( † 15 BC)
Died
- Marcus Antonius Orator, Roman politician (* 143 BC)
- Lucius Cornelius Merula, Roman politician
- Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus, Roman politician (c. 130 BC)
- Lucius Julius Caesar, Roman politician (c. 135 BC)
- Publius Licinius Crassus, Roman politician
- Quintus Catulus Lutatius, Roman politician
- Quintus Mucius Scaevola, Roman politician (c. 170 BC)
- Gnaeus Octavius , Roman politician
- Pompey Strabo, Roman politician
- Han Wudi, Chinese emperor (* 156 BC)