96 BC

__NOTOC__Year 96 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

*Consuls: Gaius Cassius Longinus and Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus
*Cyrene left to the people of Rome by its ruler Ptolemy Apion.

Greece

*Seleucus VI Epiphanes becomes king of the Seleucid Empire following the death of his father Antiochus VIII Grypus, and defeating in battle Antiochus IX Cyzicenus.

Asia

*Start of the Taishi era in the Han Dynasty.

Births

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Deaths

*Ptolemy Apion, king of Cyrene
*Antiochus VIII Grypus, king of the Seleucid Empire (murdered)
*Antiochus IX Cyzicenus, king of the Seleucid Empire (died in battle)