96 BC

Year 96 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Ahenobarbus and Longinus (or, less frequently, year 658 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 96 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.

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC 1st century BC 1st century
Decades:	110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC
Years:	99 BC 98 BC 97 BC 96 BC 95 BC 94 BC 93 BC

96 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	96 BC XCV BC
Ab urbe condita	658
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 228
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy X Alexander, 12
Ancient Greek era	171st Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4655
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−688
Berber calendar	855
Buddhist calendar	449
Burmese calendar	−733
Byzantine calendar	5413–5414
Chinese calendar	甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 2601 or 2541     — to — 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 2602 or 2542
Coptic calendar	−379 – −378
Discordian calendar	1071
Ethiopian calendar	−103 – −102
Hebrew calendar	3665–3666
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−39 – −38
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3005–3006
Holocene calendar	9905
Iranian calendar	717 BP – 716 BP
Islamic calendar	739 BH – 738 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2238
Minguo calendar	2007 before ROC 民前2007年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1563
Seleucid era	216/217 AG
Thai solar calendar	447–448
Tibetan calendar	阳木猴年 (male Wood-Monkey) 31 or −350 or −1122     — to — 阴木鸡年 (female Wood-Rooster) 32 or −349 or −1121

Events

By place

Roman Republic

• Consuls: Gaius Cassius Longinus and Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus
• Cyrene is left to the people of the Roman Republic by its ruler Ptolemy Apion.

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.

Asia

• Start of the Taishi era in the Han Dynasty.

Births

• Galeria Copiola, Roman dancer d. 9 AD

Deaths

• Antiochus VIII Grypus, king of the Seleucid Empire
• Antiochus IX Cyzicenus, king of the Seleucid Empire
• Gongsun Ao, Chinese general of the Han Dynasty
• Ptolemy Apion, king of Cyrenaica (modern Libya)

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