92 BC

__NOTOC__Year 92 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

*Consuls: Gaius Claudius Pulcher and Marcus Perperna.
*In the first diplomatic contact between Rome and Parthia, Sulla meets with a Parthian envoy, resulting in the parties recognizing Euphrates as a common frontier.
*Sulla repulses Tigranes of Armenia from Cappadocia.
*Lucullus invades Armenia initiating the six centuries' long Roman-Persian Wars.
*Gaius Sentius becomes Roman governor of Macedonia, serves until 88.

Births

*Publius Clodius Pulcher, Roman politician (d. 52 BC)

Deaths

*Antiochus XI Epiphanes, king of the Greek Seleucid Empire, drowned