87 BC

__NOTOC__Year 87 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

* Lucius Cornelius Cinna is elected consul of Rome, thus returning the rule of Rome back to the democrats.
* Sulla arrived in Greece against Mithridates.
* Ostia was razed by Gaius Marius as he came back from Africa with an army to take Rome by force.

By topic

Technology

* Antikythera mechanism manufactured.

Births

*Lucius Munatius Plancus, consul 42 BC. (approximate date) (d. c. 15 BC)

Deaths

* Marcus Antonius Orator, Roman consul (executed by order of Marius and Cinna)
* Han Wudi, emperor of China (b. 156 BC)
* Lucius Cornelius Merula, Roman priest (suicide)
* Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, Roman general and father of Pompey the Great (disease)
* Publius Licinius Crassus, Roman consul, censor and father of Marcus Licinius Crassus (killed by Marians invading Rome)