82 BC

__NOTOC__Year 82 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

* Sulla defeats Samnite allies of Rome in the Battle of the Colline Gate, and takes control of Rome.
* Cnaeus Pompeius was sent by Sulla to stamp out democratic rebels in Sicily and Africa, while the young Gaius Julius Caesar was acting as a subordinate of Sulla in the east.
* The Aurigid shower parent comet C/1911 N1 (Kiess) returns to the inner solar system and sheds the dust particles that one revolution later cause the 1935, 1986, 1994, and 2007 Aurigid meteor outbursts on Earth.

Dacia

* Burebista unifies the Dacian population forming the first (and biggest) unified Dacian kingdom, on the territory of modern Romania and surroundings. 82 BC is also the starting year of his reign.

Births

*Marcus Caelius Rufus, Roman orator and politician (d. 48 BC)
*Varro Atacinus, Roman poet (d. c. 35 BC)

Deaths

*Gnaeus Papirius Carbo, three times consul, executed by partisans of Sulla
*Quintus Mucius Scaevola Pontifex, murdered by order of the younger Marius