Editing 82 BC

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Year '''82 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. At the time it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Marius and Carbo''' (or, less frequently, '''year 672 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 82 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 ==
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=== By place ===

==== Roman Republic ====
* April: [[Sulla]] defeats the consul [[Gaius Marius the Younger]] at the [[Battle of Sacriportus]], and takes control of Rome.
* [[November 1]]: Sulla defeats an army of [[Samnites]] and [[Lucanians]] alliance in the [[Battle of the Colline Gate (82 BC)|Battle of the Colline Gate]].<ref name=":0">[[François Hinard]], ''Les proscriptions de la Rome républicaine'', Rome, Ecole française de Rome, 1985, pp. 108, 109, 116. ISBN 2728300941</ref>
* [[November 2]]: Sulla slaughters the Samnite prisoners in the [[Villa publica]]; the senate rejects his proscription plan.<ref name=":0" />
* [[November 3]]: Sulla passes his [[Sulla's proscription|proscription]] through a [[Citizens' assemblies of the Roman Republic|popular assembly]]; he publishes a list of 520 senators and [[equites]] to be murdered on sight.<ref name=":0" />
* [[Gaius Marius the Younger]] is besieged at the fortress city of [[Praeneste]] in [[Latium]]. After a fierce resistance, Marius commits suicide.
* [[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".
* [[Lucius Licinius Murena (triumphator)|Lucius Licinius Murena]] launches a raid against [[Kingdom of Pontus|Pontus]] in the [[Battle of Halys]], starting the [[Second Mithridatic War]].

==== Dacia ====
* [[Burebista]] unifies the Dacian population forming the first (and biggest) unified [[Dacia|Dacian Kingdom]], on the territory of modern [[Romania]] and surroundings. 82 BC is also the starting year of his reign.

=== By topic ===

==== 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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== Births ==
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[Licinius Macer Calvus]], Roman [[orator]] and poet (d. c. [[47 BC]])
* [[Marcus Caelius Rufus]], Roman orator and politician (d. c. [[48 BC]])
* [[Varro Atacinus]], Roman poet and writer (d. c. [[35 BC]])
* [[Vercingetorix]], Gaul warrior and leader (d. [[46 BC]])

== Deaths ==
* [[Gaius Carrinas (praetor 82 BC)|Gaius Carrinas]], Roman politician and general (executed by order of [[Sulla]])
* [[Gaius Fabius Hadrianus]], Roman politician and governor
* [[Gaius Marcius Censorinus (Marian)|Gaius Marcius Censorinus]], Roman politician and general (executed by order of [[Sulla]])
* [[Gaius Marius the Younger]], Roman politician (commits suicide)
* [[Gaius Norbanus]], Roman [[Roman consul|consul]] and governor (commits suicide)
* [[Gnaeus Papirius Carbo (consul 85 BC)|Gnaeus Papirius Carbo]], Roman consul (executed by order of Sulla)
* [[Marcus Marius Gratidianus]], Roman [[praetor]] and politician (executed by order of [[Sulla]])
* [[Quintus Mucius Scaevola Pontifex]], Roman consul (murdered by order of Marius the Younger)
* [[Quintus Valerius Soranus]], Roman politician and [[Latin]] poet (executed by order of [[Sulla]])

== References ==
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