90s BC

90s BC is the time period from 99 BC – 90 BC.

99 BC

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By place

Roman Republic

• Consuls: Aulus Postumius Albinus and Marcus Antonius.

Asia

• Han-Xiongnu War

• The Han general Li Guangli marches west from Jiuquan with 30,000 cavalrymen to attack the Tuqi King of the Right in the Tian Shan Mountains. After an initial victory, the Han are surrounded, and they lose more than 20,000 men while breaking out of the encirclement.
• The Han generals Lu Bode and Gongsun Ao march into the Zhuoxie Mountains, but they encounter no Xiongnu forces and turn back.^[1]
• Autumn – The Han general Li Ling leads 5000 crack infantry and a cavalry force from Juyan Lake into the eastern Altay Mountains but is pursued by Qiedihou Chanyu. After a desperate fighting retreat across more than 500km of Xiongnu territory, the Han expedition runs out of arrows. Li Ling surrenders and his force disintegrates in the Tihan Mountains, about 50km from the Great Wall of China.
• Emperor Wu of Han has the 'Grand Historian' Sima Qian castrated after the latter argues in defense of Li Ling's surrender.^[2]

Births

Transcluding articles: 99 BC, 98 BC, 97 BC, 96 BC, 95 BC, 94 BC, 93 BC, 92 BC, 91 BC, and 90 BC

99 BC

• Lucretius, Latin prominent philosopher and poet (d. c. 55 BC)

98 BC

• Nigidius Figulus, Roman philosopher (probable date) (d. 45 BC)
• Terentia, first wife of Cicero (d. AD 4).

97 BC

• Appius Claudius Pulcher, Roman consul (d. 49 BC)

96 BC

• Galeria Copiola, Roman dancer d. 9 AD

95 BC

• Clodia, daughter of Appius Claudius Pulcher
• Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis, Roman politician (d. 46 BC)

94 BC

• Zhao of Han, Chinese emperor (d. 74 BC)

93 BC

• Publius Clodius Pulcher, Roman politician (d. 52 BC)

91 BC

• Xuan of Han, emperor of the Han dynasty (d. 49 BC)

90 BC

• Aulus Hirtius, Roman politician and historian (d. 43 BC)
• Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian (approximate date)
• Pasherienptah III, Egyptian high priest (d. 41 BC)

Deaths

Transcluding articles: 99 BC, 98 BC, 97 BC, 96 BC, 95 BC, 94 BC, 93 BC, 92 BC, 91 BC, and 90 BC

98 BC

• Emperor Kaika of Japan, according to legend.

96 BC

• Antiochus VIII Grypus, king of the Seleucid Empire
• Antiochus IX Cyzicenus, king of the Seleucid Empire
• Gongsun Ao, Chinese general of the Han dynasty
• Ptolemy Apion, king of Cyrenaica (modern Libya)

93 BC

• Antiochus XI, king of the Seleucid Empire
• Farnadjom, king of Caucasian Iberia

92 BC

• Antiochus XI Epiphanes, king of the Greek Seleucid Empire, drowned

91 BC

• Liu Ju, crown prince of the Han dynasty (b. 128 BC)
• Lucius Licinius Crassus, Roman consul (b. 140 BC)
• Marcus Livius Drusus, Roman politician
• Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus, Roman politician
• Wei Zifu, empress of the Han dynasty

90 BC

• Antiochus X Eusebes, Seleucid king (approximate date)
• Dionysios Trax, Greek grammarian (b. 170 BC)
• Li Yannian, Chinese musician (executed by Wu of Han)
• Pharnajom, king of Iberia (modern Georgia)