82 BC

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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 by topic
Politics
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82 BC in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 82 BC
Ab urbe condita 672
Armenian calendar N/A
Bahá'í calendar -1925 – -1924
Berber calendar 869
Buddhist calendar 463
Burmese calendar -719
Chinese calendar 2555/2615
([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年)
— to —
2556/2616
([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年)
Coptic calendar -365 – -364
Ethiopian calendar -89 – -88
Hebrew calendar 3679 – 3680
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat -26 – -25
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 3020 – 3021
Holocene calendar 9919
Iranian calendar 703 BP – 702 BP
Islamic calendar 725 BH – 724 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar 2252
Thai solar calendar 462
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Year 82 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

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[edit] Rome

  • Sulla defeats Samnite allies of Rome in the Battle of the Colline Gate, and takes control of Rome.
  • Cnaeus Pompeius was sent by Sulla to stamp out democratic rebels in Sicily and Africa, while the young Gaius Julius Caesar was acting as a subordinate of Sulla in the east.
  • 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.

[edit] 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.

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