90 BC

__NOTOC__Year 90 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

*Consuls: Lucius Julius Caesar and Publius Rutilius Lupus.
*Social War continues: Pompeius Strabo and Gaius Marius distinguish themselves.
*The Etruscans are granted Roman citizenship.
*Corfinium in south-central Italy is the center of a rebellion against Rome.
*The "Lex Iulia" grants citizenship to all Italians who did not oppose Rome during the Social War.
*Cicero starts to serve in the Roman army.

Anatolia

*Nicomedes IV of Bithynia is defeated in battle by a coalition of Nicomedes' brother Socrates, and Mithridates VI of Pontus. Nicomedes flees to Rome.

Births

*Aulus Hirtius, Roman politician and historian (d. 43 BC)
*Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian (probable date)

Deaths

*Dionysios Trax, Greek linguist (b. 170 BC)
*Antiochus X Eusebes, king of the Seleucid Empire (approximate date)