88 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:	91 BC 90 BC 89 BC – 88 BC – 87 BC 86 BC 85 BC

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

**88 BC in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	88 BC
Ab urbe condita	666
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1931 – -1930
Bengali calendar	-680
Berber calendar	863
Buddhist calendar	457
Burmese calendar	-725
Byzantine calendar	5421 – 5422
Chinese calendar	[[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2549/2609) — to — [[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2550/2610)
Coptic calendar	-371 – -370
Ethiopian calendar	-95 – -94
Hebrew calendar	3673 – 3674
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	-31 – -30
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3014 – 3015
Holocene calendar	9913
Iranian calendar	709 BP – 708 BP
Islamic calendar	731 BH – 730 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2246
Thai solar calendar	456

Year 88 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

The Social War ends with the defeat of the Italian allies by the Romans.
The First Roman Civil War starts with democratic uprising led by Gaius Marius, but the democrats under the tribune P. Sulpicius Rufus are crushed by the conservatives under Sulla. Marius flees to Africa.
First Civil War in Rome, between Marius and Sulla. Some Italian cities are destroyed: for instance, Feorlì, rebuilt by the praetor Livius Clodius afterwards.
The Dardani, Scordisci, and the Maedi attack the Roman province of Macedonia