84 BC

Year 84 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Carbo and Cinna (or, less frequently, year 670 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 84 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:	100s BC 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC
Years:	87 BC 86 BC 85 BC 84 BC 83 BC 82 BC 81 BC

84 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	84 BC LXXXIV BC
Ab urbe condita	670
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 240
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy IX Lathyros, 5
Ancient Greek era	174th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4667
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−676
Berber calendar	867
Buddhist calendar	461
Burmese calendar	−721
Byzantine calendar	5425–5426
Chinese calendar	丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 2614 or 2407     — to — 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 2615 or 2408
Coptic calendar	−367 – −366
Discordian calendar	1083
Ethiopian calendar	−91 – −90
Hebrew calendar	3677–3678
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−27 – −26
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3017–3018
Holocene calendar	9917
Iranian calendar	705 BP – 704 BP
Islamic calendar	727 BH – 726 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2250
Minguo calendar	1995 before ROC 民前1995年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1551
Seleucid era	228/229 AG
Thai solar calendar	459–460
Tibetan calendar	阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 43 or −338 or −1110     — to — 阴火鸡年 (female Fire-Rooster) 44 or −337 or −1109

Events

By place

Asia

• Battle of Cana: The Arab Nabataean Kingdom decisively defeats the Greek Seleucid Empire, slaying King Antiochus XII Dionysus, at modern-day Umm Qais in Jordan.

Roman Republic

• The First Mithridatic War comes to an end.
• Julius Caesar marries Cornelia

Births

• Catullus, Roman poet (approximate date) (d. c. 54 BC)
• Servilius Casca, Roman politician (d. c. 42 BC)
• Surena, Parthian general (d. 53 BC)

Deaths

• Apellicon of Teos, Greek book collector (approximate date)
• Gaius Flavius Fimbria, Roman politician and general (suicide)
• Lucius Cornelius Cinna, Roman consul (killed by mutinying troops)
• Antiochus XII Dionysus, king of the Seleucid Empire (killed in battle)