88 BC

__NOTOC__Year 88 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

* The Social War ends with the defeat of the Italian allies by the Romans.
* The First Roman Civil War starts with democratic uprising led by Gaius Marius, but the democrats under the tribune P. Sulpicius Rufus were crushed by the conservatives under Sulla. Marius fled to Africa.
* First Civil War in Rome, between Marius and Sulla. Some Italian cities are destroyed: for instance, Feorlì, rebuilt by the praetor Livius Clodius afterwards.

Greece

* Mithridates VI of Pontus invades Greece.

Births

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Deaths

* Publius Sulpicius Rufus, Roman tribune (b. c. 121 BC)
* Mithridates II of Parthia