95 BC

Overview

Year 95 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Crassus and Scaevola (or, less frequently, year 659 Ab urbe condita) and the Second Year of Taishi. The denomination 95 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

Rome

• Consuls: Lucius Licinius Crassus and Quintus Mucius Scaevola Pontifex

Seleucid kingdom

• Philip I Philadelphus and Antiochus XI Ephiphanes succeeded as co-rulers after the deposition of Seleucus VI Epiphanes.

Ireland

• "Forty-metre structure" at Emain Macha (near modern Armagh, Northern Ireland) was built and destroyed, presumably for ritual or ceremonial purposes.

Asia Minor

• Tigranes the Great becomes king of Armenia

Births

• Clodia, daughter of Appius Claudius Pulcher
• Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis, Roman politician (d. 46 BC)