88

: "For the processor, see Intel 8088."Year 88 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.__NOTOC__

Events

By place

Roman Empire

* Two Egyptian obelisks are erected in Benevento in front of the temple of Isis, in honour of Domitian.
* Quintilian retires from teaching and from pleading, to compose his great work on the training of the orator ("Institutio Oratoria"). (approximate date)
* The first Dacian War ends.

Asia

* Last year (4th) of "yuanhe" era and start of "zhanghe" era of the Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty, with the debut of the reign of Han Hedi as Emperor of China.

By topic

Religion

* Pope Clement I succeeds Pope Anacletus I as the fourth pope.

Births

* Marcion, religious thinker, in Asia Minor

Deaths

* Valerius Flaccus, epic poet (The Argonauts)
* Zhangdi, Emperor of China (b. 57)
* Dou Gu, general of Han Dynasty