85 BC

Year 85 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cinna and Carbo (or, less frequently, year 669 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 85 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:	88 BC 87 BC 86 BC 85 BC 84 BC 83 BC 82 BC

85 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	85 BC LXXXV BC
Ab urbe condita	669
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 239
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy IX Lathyros, 4
Ancient Greek era	173rd Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4666
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−677
Berber calendar	866
Buddhist calendar	460
Burmese calendar	−722
Byzantine calendar	5424–5425
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 2613 or 2406     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 2614 or 2407
Coptic calendar	−368 – −367
Discordian calendar	1082
Ethiopian calendar	−92 – −91
Hebrew calendar	3676–3677
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−28 – −27
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3016–3017
Holocene calendar	9916
Iranian calendar	706 BP – 705 BP
Islamic calendar	728 BH – 727 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2249
Minguo calendar	1996 before ROC 民前1996年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1552
Seleucid era	227/228 AG
Thai solar calendar	458–459
Tibetan calendar	阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 42 or −339 or −1111     — to — 阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 43 or −338 or −1110

Events

By place

Roman Republic

• First Mithridatic War: Lucius Cornelius Sulla again defeats Archelaus in the decisive Battle of Orchomenus.

Births

• Atia, niece of Julius Caesar and mother of Augustus (d. 43 BC)
• Marcus Junius Brutus, conspirator and assassin in the murder of Julius Caesar (approximate date)
• Tiberius Claudius Nero, Roman politician and father of Tiberius (d. 33 BC)

Deaths

• Gaius Julius Caesar, Roman politician (b. c. 140 BC)
• Mnesarchus of Athens, Stoic philosopher (b. c. 160 BC)
• Lucius Valerius Flaccus