| 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: | 90 BC 89 BC 88 BC - 87 BC - 86 BC 85 BC 84 BC |
| 87 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 87 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 667 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1930 – -1929 |
| Berber calendar | 864 |
| Buddhist calendar | 458 |
| Burmese calendar | -724 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5422 – 5423 |
| Chinese calendar | [[Sexagenary cycle|]]年 (2550/2610) — to —
甲年(2551/2611) |
| Coptic calendar | -370 – -369 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -94 – -93 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3674 – 3675 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | -31 – -30 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3015 – 3016 |
| Holocene calendar | 9914 |
| Iranian calendar | 708 BP – 707 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 730 BH – 729 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2247 |
| Thai solar calendar | 457 |
Year 87 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Rome
- Lucius Cornelius Cinna is elected consul of Rome, thus returning the rule of Rome back to the democrats.
- Sulla arrives in Greece and besieges Athens. He orders Lucius Licinius Lucullus to raise a fleet from Rome's allies around the eastern Mediterranean.
- Ostia is razed by Gaius Marius as he comes back from Africa with an army to take Rome by force.
By topic
Technology
- Antikythera mechanism manufactured.
Births
- Lucius Munatius Plancus, consul 42 BC. (approximate date) (d. c. 15 BC)
Deaths
- Marcus Antonius Orator, Roman consul (executed by order of Marius and Cinna)
- Han Wudi, emperor of China (b. 156 BC)
- Lucius Cornelius Merula, Roman priest (suicide)
- Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, Roman general and father of Pompey the Great (disease)
- Publius Licinius Crassus, Roman consul, censor and father of Marcus Licinius Crassus (killed by Marians invading Rome)
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