89

Year 89 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.__NOTOC__

Events

By place

Europe

*Legio XIII "Gemina" is transferred to Dacia to help in the war against Decebalus.
*Aquincum (modern Budapest) is founded.

Asia

* First year of "Yongyuan" era of the Chinese Han Dynasty.
*June — The Han Chinese army under Dou Xian (d. 92), allied with the southern Xiongnu, is victorious over the Northern Xiongnu in the Battle of Ikh Bayan.

By topic

Religion

*Change of Patriarch of Constantinople from Polycarpus to Plutarch.
*Publication in Syria or Phoenicia of the Gospel of Matthew by a converted Jewish scholar.

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