83 BC.html

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century
Decades:	110s BC 100s BC 90s BC - 80s BC - 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC
Years:	86 BC 85 BC 84 BC - 83 BC - 82 BC 81 BC 80 BC

83 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments v • d • e

**83 BC in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	83 BC
Ab urbe condita	671
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1926 – -1925
Berber calendar	868
Buddhist calendar	462
Burmese calendar	-720
Byzantine calendar	5426 – 5427
Chinese calendar	[[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2554/2614) — to — [[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2555/2615)
Coptic calendar	-366 – -365
Ethiopian calendar	-90 – -89
Hebrew calendar	3678 – 3679
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-27 – -26
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3019 – 3020
Holocene calendar	9918
Iranian calendar	704 BP – 703 BP
Islamic calendar	726 BH – 725 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2251
Thai solar calendar	461
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Year 83 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

Sulla returns to Italy from his campaigns in Greece, defeats the popular forces of Gaius Norbanus in the Battle of Mount Tifata.
Lucius Licinius Murena, the Roman Governor of Asia, clashed with the Pontic forces of Mithridates VI, starting the Second Mithridatic War.
A fire breaks out which burns down the Temple of Jupiter (Jupiter Capitolinus) and destroys the collection of Sibylline Books.

Mark Antony, Roman politician (approximate date) (d. 30 BC)
Julia, daughter of Julius Caesar and Cornelia Cinna (approximate date) (d. 54 BC)