83 BC

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:	86 BC 85 BC 84 BC – 83 BC – 82 BC 81 BC 80 BC

83 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	83 BC
Ab urbe condita	671
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 241
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy IX Lathyros, 6
Ancient Greek era	174th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4668
Bengali calendar	−675
Berber calendar	868
Buddhist calendar	462
Burmese calendar	−720
Byzantine calendar	5426–5427
Chinese calendar	丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 2614 or 2554     — to — 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 2615 or 2555
Coptic calendar	−366 – −365
Discordian calendar	1084
Ethiopian calendar	−90 – −89
Hebrew calendar	3678–3679
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−26 – −25
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3019–3020
Holocene calendar	9918
Iranian calendar	704 BP – 703 BP
Islamic calendar	726 BH – 725 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2251
Minguo calendar	1994 before ROC 民前1994年
Seleucid era	229/230 AG
Thai solar calendar	460–461

Lucius Cornelius Sulla

Year 83 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Asiaticus and Norbanus (or, less frequently, year 671 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 83 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.

Events

By place

Roman Republic

• Spring – Lucius Cornelius Sulla returns to Italy from his campaigns in Greece and lands with his legions unopposed at Brundisium. He defeats the popular forces of Gaius Norbanus in the Battle of Mount Tifata.
• Gnaeus Pompeius, age 22, raises on his own initiative a private army of three legions from his fathers veterans and clientalae in Picenum.^[1]
• Lucius Licinius Murena, the Roman governor of Asia, clashes with the Pontic forces of Mithridates VI, starting the Second Mithridatic War.
• A fire breaks out which burns down the Temple of Jupiter (Jupiter Capitolinus) and destroys the collection of Sibylline Books.

Births

• Mark Antony, Roman politician (who later married Cleopatra) (approximate date) (d. 30 BC)
• Julia, daughter of Julius Caesar and Cornelia Cinna (approximate date) (d. 54 BC)
• Fulvia, Roman matron and wife of Mark Antony (d. 40 BC)

Deaths

References

1. Pompey, Command (p. 7). Nic Fields, 2012. ISBN 978-1-84908-572-4