86

: "For the processor, see Intel 8086."Year 86 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.__NOTOC__

Events

By place

Roman Empire

* Domitian introduces the Capitoline Games.
* The Roman General Trajan, future emperor, begins a campaign to crush an uprising in Germany.
* Germany is divided into two provinces, Upper- and Lower-Germany.
* Roman legions face disaster in Dacia in the First Battle of Tapae, when Cornelius Fuscus, Praetorian prefect, launches a powerful offensive that becomes a failure. Encircled in the valley of Timi, he dies along with his entire army. Rome must pay tribute to the Dacians in exchange for a vague recognition of Rome's importance.

Asia

*Ban Gu (Pan Kou) and his sister Ban Zhao (Pan Tchao) compose a History of China.

Births

* September 19 — Antoninus Pius, Roman emperor (138–161).

Deaths

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