AD 86

AD 86 (LXXXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Petronianus (or, less frequently, year 839 Ab urbe condita). The denomination AD 86 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.

AD 86 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	AD 86 LXXXVI
Ab urbe condita	839
Assyrian calendar	4836
Balinese saka calendar	7–8
Bengali calendar	−508 – −507
Berber calendar	1036
Buddhist calendar	630
Burmese calendar	−552
Byzantine calendar	5594–5595
Chinese calendar	乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 2783 or 2576     — to — 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 2784 or 2577
Coptic calendar	−198 – −197
Discordian calendar	1252
Ethiopian calendar	78–79
Hebrew calendar	3846–3847
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	142–143
- Shaka Samvat	7–8
- Kali Yuga	3186–3187
Holocene calendar	10086
Iranian calendar	536 BP – 535 BP
Islamic calendar	552 BH – 551 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	AD 86 LXXXVI
Korean calendar	2419
Minguo calendar	1826 before ROC 民前1826年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1382
Seleucid era	397/398 AG
Thai solar calendar	628–629
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Wood-Bird) 212 or −169 or −941     — to — མེ་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Fire-Dog) 213 or −168 or −940

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Emperor Domitian introduces the Capitoline Games.^[1]
• Roman general (and future emperor) Trajan begins a campaign to crush an uprising in Germania.
• Germania is divided into two provinces, Germania Inferior and Germania Superior (approximate date).
• Martial publishes Books I and II of the Epigrams.^[2]

Dacia

• First Battle of Tapae: Roman legions face disaster in Dacia, when Roman general Cornelius Fuscus launches a powerful offensive that becomes a failure. Encircled in the valley of Timi, he dies along with his entire army. Rome must pay tribute to the Dacians in exchange for a vague recognition of Rome's importance.

Asia

• Ban Gu (Pan Kou) and his sister Ban Zhao (Pan Tchao) compose the History of China.

Births

• September 19 – Antoninus Pius, Roman emperor (d. 161)^[3]

Deaths

• June 9 – Cornelius Fuscus, Roman general and praetorian prefect