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| Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century |
| Decades: | 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC – 80s BC – 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC |
| Years: | 85 BC 84 BC 83 BC – 82 BC – 81 BC 80 BC 79 BC |
| 82 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 82 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 672 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1925 – -1924 |
| Bengali calendar | -674 |
| Berber calendar | 869 |
| Buddhist calendar | 463 |
| Burmese calendar | -719 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5427 – 5428 |
| Chinese calendar | [[Sexagenary cycle|]]年 (2555/2615) — to —
[[Sexagenary cycle|]]年(2556/2616) |
| Coptic calendar | -365 – -364 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -89 – -88 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3679 – 3680 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | -26 – -25 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3020 – 3021 |
| Holocene calendar | 9919 |
| Iranian calendar | 703 BP – 702 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 725 BH – 724 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2252 |
| Thai solar calendar | 462 |
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.
- Gaius Marius the Younger is besieged at the fortress city of Praeneste in Latium. After a fierce resistance, Marius committs suicide.
- Cnaeus Pompeius is sent by Sulla to stamp out democratic rebels in Sicily and Africa, while the young Gaius Julius Caesar is 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
- Gaius Marius the Younger, son of Gaius Marius
- Gnaeus Papirius Carbo, three times consul, executed by partisans of Sulla
- Quintus Mucius Scaevola Pontifex, murdered by order of the younger Marius
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