Lex Plautia Papiria extends citizenship to all
Italians who applied for it within 60 days. The new citizens are enrolled in eight designated tribes, to prevent domination of the assemblies.
Lex Pompeia grants Latin rights to cities in
Cisalpine Gaul.
The former
Han General-in-Chief
Li Guangli, now the son-in-law of
Hulugu Chanyu, is arrested and sacrificed to the gods to restore the health of Hulugu's mother.[1]
May – King
Mithridates VI of
Pontus invades
Greece. Defeating the Roman forces four times in succession, he conquers
Bithynia,
Phrygia,
Mysia,
Lycia,
Pamphylia,
Ionia and
Cappadocia. The Roman province of
Asia is dismantled. On the king's orders, the local authorities in every city of the province round up and
put to death all resident Italians in a single day (App.Mith.§§85–91). Plutarch (Sulla 24.4) says that 150,000 are killed, other sources calculate a figure of 80,000 people.[3]
China
Emperor Wu of Han makes preparations for the six-year-old
Liu Fuling to be made Crown Prince and establishes
Huo Guang as the future regent. The emperor executes Fuling's mother
Lady Gouyi so that she cannot dominate the state while Fuling is a child emperor.[4]
Pompey is ordered by Sulla to stamp out Marian rebels in
Sicily and
Africa, after his campaigns in he gets the insulting
nickname of adulescentulus carnifex, the "teenage butcher".
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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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.
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"Marcus Junius Brutus". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved February 23, 2024.
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