89 BC

Year 89 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Strabo and Cato (or, less frequently, year 665 Ab urbe condita) and the Fourth Year of Zhenghe. The denomination 89 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.

89 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	89 BC LXXXIX BC
Ab urbe condita	665
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 235
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy X Alexander, 19
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer)	172nd Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4662
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−682 – −681
Berber calendar	862
Buddhist calendar	456
Burmese calendar	−726
Byzantine calendar	5420–5421
Chinese calendar	辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 2609 or 2402     — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 2610 or 2403
Coptic calendar	−372 – −371
Discordian calendar	1078
Ethiopian calendar	−96 – −95
Hebrew calendar	3672–3673
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−32 – −31
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3012–3013
Holocene calendar	9912
Iranian calendar	710 BP – 709 BP
Islamic calendar	732 BH – 731 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2245
Minguo calendar	2000 before ROC 民前2000年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1556
Seleucid era	223/224 AG
Thai solar calendar	454–455
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Iron-Hare) 38 or −343 or −1115     — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Water-Dragon) 39 or −342 or −1114

Map of Asia Minor (89 BC)

Events

By place

Roman Republic

• Consuls: Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo and Lucius Porcius Cato.
• Social War:
  • Roman forces under Lucius Porcius Cato are defeated by the Italian rebels in the Battle of Fucine Lake, Cato is killed.
  • The Roman army of Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo decisively defeats the rebels in the Battle of Asculum.
• Lex Plautia Papiria extends citizenship to all Italians who applied for it within 60 days. The new citizens are enrolled in eight designated tribes, to prevent domination of the assemblies.
• Lex Pompeia grants Latin rights to cities in Cisalpine Gaul.
• Pompeii is annexed by the Roman Republic.
• Cicero ends his service in the Roman army.

Asia Minor

• Mithridates VI of Pontus invades Bithynia and Cappadocia, thus beginning the First Mithridatic War.

Xiongnu

• The former Han General-in-Chief Li Guangli, now the son-in-law of Hulugu Chanyu, is arrested and sacrificed to the gods to restore the health of Hulugu's mother.^[1]

Births

• Empress Shangguan, wife to Emperor Zhao of Han (d. 37 BC)

Deaths

• Aulus Sempronius Asellio, Roman praetor (murdered by creditors)
• Lucius Porcius Cato, Roman politician and general
• Marcus Aemilius Scaurus, Roman politician (b. c. 163 BC)
• Titus Didius, killed in battle during the Social War
• Li Guangli, Chinese General-in-Chief (Han dynasty)