87 BC

Centuries: 2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century

Decades: 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC – 80s BC – 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC

Years: 92 BC 91 BC 90 BC 89 BC 88 BC – 87 BC – 86 BC 85 BC 84 BC 83 BC 82 BC

Events

• Lucius Cornelius Cinna is elected consul of Rome.
• Antikythera mechanism manufactured

Births

• Lucius Munatius Plancus, consul 42 BC. (approximate date)

Deaths

• Marcus Antonius Orator, Roman consul (executed by order of Marius and Cinna)
• Han Wudi, emperor of China
• Lucius Cornelius Merula, Roman priest (suicide)
• Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, Roman general and father of Pompey the Great (disease)