88

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC – 1st century – 2nd century
Decades:	50s  60s  70s  – 80s –  90s  100s  110s
Years:	85 86 87 – 88 – 89 90 91

88 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

88 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	88 LXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	841
Assyrian calendar	4838
Bengali calendar	−505
Berber calendar	1038
Buddhist calendar	632
Burmese calendar	−550
Byzantine calendar	5596–5597
Chinese calendar	丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 2784 or 2724     — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 2785 or 2725
Coptic calendar	−196 – −195
Discordian calendar	1254
Ethiopian calendar	80–81
Hebrew calendar	3848–3849
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	144–145
- Shaka Samvat	10–11
- Kali Yuga	3189–3190
Holocene calendar	10088
Iranian calendar	534 BP – 533 BP
Islamic calendar	550 BH – 549 BH
Julian calendar	88 LXXXVIII
Korean calendar	2421
Minguo calendar	1824 before ROC 民前1824年
Seleucid era	399/400 AG
Thai solar calendar	630–631

Year 88 (LXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Rufus (or, less frequently, year 841 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 88 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 Empire

• Two Egyptian obelisks are erected in Benevento in front of the Temple of Isis, in honour of emperor Domitian.
• Quintilian retires from teaching and from pleading, to compose his great work on the training of the orator (Institutio Oratoria).
• The First Dacian War ends: Decebalus becomes a client king of Rome, he receives money, craftsmen and war machines to protect the borders (Limes) of the Roman Empire.

Asia

• Emperor Han Zhangdi dies at age 31 after a 13-year reign in which Chinese military forces have become powerful enough to march against tribes who threaten their northern and western borders. Having used intrigue as well as armed might to achieve his ends. Zhangdi and his General Pan Chao have reestablished Chinese influence in Inner Asia, but court eunuchs have increased their power during the emperor's reign. Zhangdi is succeeded by his 9-year old son Zhao, who will reign until 105 as emperor Han Hedi, but he will be a virtual pawn of Empress Dou (adoptive mother) and scheming courtiers who will effectively rule the Chinese Empire.
• Last year (4th) of yuanhe era and start of zhanghe era of the Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty.

By topic

Religion

• Pope Clement I succeeds Pope Anacletus I as the fourth pope.

Births

• Marcion, religious thinker, in Asia Minor (d. c. 90)

Deaths

• Valerius Flaccus, epic poet (The Argonauts)
• Han Zhangdi, Emperor of China (b. 57)
• Dou Gu, general of Han Dynasty

References