96 BC
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| Centuries: | 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century |
| Decades: | 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC - 90s BC - 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC |
| Years: | 99 BC 98 BC 97 BC - 96 BC - 95 BC 94 BC 93 BC |
| 96 BC by topic | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 96 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 658 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1939 – -1938 |
| Berber calendar | 855 |
| Buddhist calendar | 449 |
| Burmese calendar | -733 |
| Chinese calendar | 2541/2601 (甲年) — to —
2542/2602([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年) |
| Coptic calendar | -379 – -378 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -103 – -102 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3665 – 3666 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | -40 – -39 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3006 – 3007 |
| Holocene calendar | 9905 |
| Iranian calendar | 717 BP – 716 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 739 BH – 738 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2238 |
| Thai solar calendar | 448 |
Year 96 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Rome
- Consuls: Gaius Cassius Longinus and Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus
- Cyrene left to the people of Rome by its ruler Ptolemy Apion.
[edit] Greece
- Seleucus VI Epiphanes becomes king of the Seleucid Empire following the death of his father Antiochus VIII Grypus, and defeating in battle Antiochus IX Cyzicenus.
[edit] Asia
- Start of the Taishi era in the Han Dynasty.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- Ptolemy Apion, king of Cyrene
- Antiochus VIII Grypus, king of the Seleucid Empire (murdered)
- Antiochus IX Cyzicenus, king of the Seleucid Empire (died in battle)
