82 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:	85 BC 84 BC 83 BC – 82 BC – 81 BC 80 BC 79 BC

82 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

**82 BC in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	82 BC
Ab urbe condita	672
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1925 – -1924
Bengali calendar	-674
Berber calendar	869
Buddhist calendar	463
Burmese calendar	-719
Byzantine calendar	5427 – 5428
Chinese calendar	[[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2555/2615) — to — [[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2556/2616)
Coptic calendar	-365 – -364
Ethiopian calendar	-89 – -88
Hebrew calendar	3679 – 3680
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	-25 – -24
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3020 – 3021
Holocene calendar	9919
Iranian calendar	703 BP – 702 BP
Islamic calendar	725 BH – 724 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2252
Thai solar calendar	462

Year 82 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

Sulla defeats Samnite allies of Rome in the Battle of the Colline Gate, and takes control of Rome.
Gaius Marius the Younger is besieged at the fortress city of Praeneste in Latium. After a fierce resistance, Marius committs suicide.
Gnaeus Pompeius is ordered by Sulla to stamp out democratic rebels in Sicily and Africa, while the young Gaius Julius Caesar is acting as a subordinate of Sulla in the east.
Pompeius get after his campaigns in Sicily and Africa, the insulting nickname of adulescentulus carnifex, the "teenage butcher".
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.

Burebista unifies the Dacian population forming the first (and biggest) unified Dacian kingdom, on the territory of modern Romania and surroundings. 82 BC is also the starting year of his reign.