86 BC

__NOTOC__Year 86 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

* First Mithridatic War
** March 1 — Sulla captured Athens from the Pontic army, removing the tyrant Aristion.
** Lucius Licinius Lucullus decisively defeated the Mithridatic fleet in the Battle of Tenedos.
** The Roman forces of Lucius Cornelius Sulla defeat the Pontic forces of Archelaus in the Battle of Chaeronea.

Births

* October 1 — Sallust, Roman historian (d. 34 BC)

Deaths

* January 13 — Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician (b. 157 BC)
* After March 1 — Aristion, philosopher and tyrant of Athens
* Sima Qian, Chinese historian (b. 145 BC)