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:	90 BC 89 BC 88 BC - 87 BC - 86 BC 85 BC 84 BC

87 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments v • d • e

87 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	87 BC
Ab urbe condita	667
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1930 – -1929
Berber calendar	864
Buddhist calendar	458
Burmese calendar	-724
Byzantine calendar	5422 – 5423
Chinese calendar	[[Sexagenary cycle|]]年 (2550/2610) — to — 甲年 (2551/2611)
Coptic calendar	-370 – -369
Ethiopian calendar	-94 – -93
Hebrew calendar	3674 – 3675
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-31 – -30
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3015 – 3016
Holocene calendar	9914
Iranian calendar	708 BP – 707 BP
Islamic calendar	730 BH – 729 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2247
Thai solar calendar	457
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Year 87 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

• Lucius Cornelius Cinna is elected consul of Rome, thus returning the rule of Rome back to the democrats.
• Sulla arrived in Greece against Mithridates.
• Ostia was razed by Gaius Marius as he came back from Africa with an army to take Rome by force.

By topic

Technology

• Antikythera mechanism manufactured.

Births

• Lucius Munatius Plancus, consul 42 BC. (approximate date) (d. c. 15 BC)

Deaths

• Marcus Antonius Orator, Roman consul (executed by order of Marius and Cinna)
• Han Wudi, emperor of China (b. 156 BC)
• Lucius Cornelius Merula, Roman priest (suicide)
• Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, Roman general and father of Pompey the Great (disease)
• Publius Licinius Crassus, Roman consul, censor and father of Marcus Licinius Crassus (killed by Marians invading Rome)