82 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:	85 BC 84 BC 83 BC – 82 BC – 81 BC 80 BC 79 BC

82 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	82 BC LXXXI BC
Ab urbe condita	672
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 242
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy IX Lathyros, 7
Ancient Greek era	174th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4669
Bengali calendar	−674
Berber calendar	869
Buddhist calendar	463
Burmese calendar	−719
Byzantine calendar	5427–5428
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 2615 or 2555     — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 2616 or 2556
Coptic calendar	−365 – −364
Discordian calendar	1085
Ethiopian calendar	−89 – −88
Hebrew calendar	3679–3680
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−25 – −24
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3020–3021
Holocene calendar	9919
Iranian calendar	703 BP – 702 BP
Islamic calendar	725 BH – 724 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2252
Minguo calendar	1993 before ROC 民前1993年
Seleucid era	230/231 AG
Thai solar calendar	461–462

Year 82 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Marius and Carbo (or, less frequently, year 672 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 82 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

• Sulla defeats Samnite allies of Rome in the Battle of the Colline Gate, and takes control of Rome.
• Gaius Marius the Younger is besieged at the fortress city of Praeneste in Latium. After a fierce resistance, Marius committs suicide.
• Gnaeus Pompeius is ordered by Sulla to stamp out democratic rebels in Sicily and Africa, while the young Gaius Julius Caesar is acting as a subordinate of Sulla in the east.
• After his campaigns in Sicily and Africa, Pompeius gets the insulting nickname of adulescentulus carnifex, the "teenage butcher".

Dacia

• Burebista unifies the Dacian population forming the first (and biggest) unified Dacian kingdom, on the territory of modern Romania and surroundings. 82 BC is also the starting year of his reign.

By topic

Astronomy

• The Aurigid shower parent comet C/1911 N1 (Kiess) returns to the inner solar system and sheds the dust particles that one revolution later cause the 1935, 1986, 1994, and 2007 Aurigid meteor outbursts on Earth.

Births

• Marcus Caelius Rufus, Roman orator and politician (d. 48 BC)
• Varro Atacinus, Roman poet (d. c. 35 BC)
• Vercingetorix, Gaul leader (d. 46 BC)

Deaths

• Gaius Marius the Younger, son of Gaius Marius (b. c. 110 BC)
• Gnaeus Papirius Carbo, three times consul, executed by partisans of Sulla
• Quintus Mucius Scaevola Pontifex, murdered by order of the younger Marius