83 BC

83 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	83 BC LXXXIII BC
Ab urbe condita	671
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 241
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy IX Lathyros, 6
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer)	174th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4668
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−676 – −675
Berber calendar	868
Buddhist calendar	462
Burmese calendar	−720
Byzantine calendar	5426–5427
Chinese calendar	丁酉年 (Fire  Rooster) 2615 or 2408     — to — 戊戌年 (Earth  Dog) 2616 or 2409
Coptic calendar	−366 – −365
Discordian calendar	1084
Ethiopian calendar	−90 – −89
Hebrew calendar	3678–3679
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−26 – −25
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3018–3019
Holocene calendar	9918
Iranian calendar	704 BP – 703 BP
Islamic calendar	726 BH – 725 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2251
Minguo calendar	1994 before ROC 民前1994年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1550
Seleucid era	229/230 AG
Thai solar calendar	460–461
Tibetan calendar	阴火鸡年 (female Fire-Rooster) 44 or −337 or −1109     — to — 阳土狗年 (male Earth-Dog) 45 or −336 or −1108

Lucius Cornelius Sulla

Year 83 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Asiaticus and Norbanus (or, less frequently, year 671 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 83 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Roman Republic

• Spring – Lucius Cornelius Sulla returns to Italy from his campaigns in Greece and lands with his legions unopposed at Brundisium. He defeats the popular forces of Gaius Norbanus in the Battle of Mount Tifata.
• Gnaeus Pompeius, age 22, raises, on his own initiative, a private army of three legions from his father's veterans and clientelae in Picenum. ^[1]
• Lucius Licinius Murena, the Roman governor of Asia, clashes with the Pontic forces of Mithridates VI, starting the Second Mithridatic War.
• A fire breaks out which burns down the Temple of Jupiter (Jupiter Capitolinus) and destroys the collection of Sibylline Books.
• Two new buildings were completed on the Capitoline Hill in Rome: the Temple of Jupitor Optimus Maximus and the Tabularium. ^[2]

Syria

• Tigranes the Great, King of Armenia was invited by a faction in the Seleucid civil wars, entered Syria and effectively ended Seleucid rule. ^[3] Though a weakened Seleucid monarchy was briefly restored after Roman victories, ongoing instability led Pompey to abolish the dynasty and annex Syria as a Roman province in 63 BC.

Births

• Fulvia, Roman matron and wife of Mark Antony (approximate date)
• Julia, daughter of Julius Caesar and Cornelia ^[4]
• Mark Antony, Roman politician and General (who later married Cleopatra) (approximate date) (d. 30 BC)

Deaths

• Philip I Philadelphus, Seleucid king (approximate date)

References

1. Nic Fields (2012). Osprey series: Command - Pompey, p. 7. ISBN   978-1-84908-572-4.
2. Stambaugh, John E. (1988). The Ancient Roman City. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 40. ISBN   0-8018-3574-7.
3. Litovchenko, Sergey (2015). "Царствование Тиграна II Великого в Сирии: проблемы хронологии" [The reign of Tigranes the Great in Syria: chronology problems]. Ancient World and Archaeology (17): 176–191.
4. LeGlay, Marcel; Voisin, Jean-Louis; Le Bohec, Yann (2001). A History of Rome (Second ed.). Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell. p. 128. ISBN   0-631-21858-0.