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Year 88 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sulla and Rufus (or, less frequently, year 666 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 88 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

• The Social War ends with the defeat of the Italian allies by the Romans.
• The First Roman Civil War starts with democratic uprising led by Gaius Marius, but the democrats under the tribune P. Sulpicius Rufus are crushed by the conservatives under Sulla. Marius flees to Africa.
• First Civil War in Rome, between Marius and Sulla. Some Italian cities are destroyed: for instance, Feorlì, rebuilt by the praetor Livius Clodius afterwards.
• The Dardani, Scordisci, and the Maedi attack the Roman province of Macedonia.

Greece

• Mithridates VI of Pontus invades Greece.

Births

Deaths

• Publius Sulpicius Rufus, Roman tribune (b. c. 121 BC)
• Mithridates II of Parthia

References

• 88 BC