80 BC

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: 83 BC 82 BC 81 BC – 80 BC – 79 BC 78 BC 77 BC 80 BC by topic Politics State leaders – Sovereign states Birth and death categories Births – Deaths Establishments and disestablishments categories Establishments – Disestablishments 80 BC in other calendars Gregorian calendar 80 BC Ab urbe condita 674 Armenian calendar N/A Bahá'í calendar -1923 – -1922 Bengali calendar -672 Berber calendar 871 Buddhist calendar 465 Burmese calendar -717 Byzantine calendar 5429 – 5430 Chinese calendar 子年 (2557/2617) — to — [[Sexagenary cycle|]]年 (2558/2618) Coptic calendar -363 – -362 Ethiopian calendar -87 – -86 Hebrew calendar 3681 – 3682 Hindu calendars  - Bikram Samwat -23 – -22  - Shaka Samvat N/A  - Kali Yuga 3022 – 3023 Holocene calendar 9921 Iranian calendar 701 BP – 700 BP Islamic calendar 723 BH – 722 BH Japanese calendar Korean calendar 2254 Thai solar calendar 464

Year 80 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

• Quintus Sertorius re-enter Iberia with a tiny army (2,600 men) and opens a successful campaign against the Sullan forces.
• Battle of the Baetis River—Democratic rebel forces under Sertorius defeat the legal Roman army of Lucius Fulfidias in Hispania, starting the Sertorian War, Quintus Metellus Pius takes command on behalf of Sulla.

Egypt

• Ptolemy XII Auletes succeeds Ptolemy XI Alexander II to the throne of Egypt.
• Alexandria comes under Roman jurisdiction.

By topic

Art

• By 80 BC – Roman artists begin to extend the space of a room visually with painted scenes of figures on a shallow "stage" or with a landscape or cityscape.

Literature

• Meleager publishes his Garland, the earliest known anthology of Greek poetry.

Births

Deaths

• Caecilia Metella Dalmatica