"89 bc."

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Events

Roman Republic

Consuls: Gnaeus Pompey Strabo and Lucius Portius Cato (both plebeians); proconsul: (in Asia); praetors: Gaius Cosconius, Quintus Oppius and ; folk tribunes: Gaius Papirius Carbon, Lucius Calpurnius Pison, Lucius Cassius, Lucius Memmius and Marcus Plautius Silvan; quaestors: Quintus Anicius (in Sicily), Quintus Minutius Terme (in Rome) and Marcus Junius Silanus (Murena, Zumpius) in Asia; Lucius Publius (Juplius)
Allied War: The Romans are defeated by the Marses at the Battle of Lake Fuccinus, and consul Lucius Portius Cato is killed in battle. Consul Gnaeus Pompey Strabo defeats a large Italian force in the north. After a long siege, the Romans surrendered Auskulus. The army of Lucius Cornelius Sulla leads an offensive in Campania and Samnia, and captures the new capital of the Italians - Bovian.
The Plautia-Papyria Law: Roman citizenship rights are extended throughout Italy.
The First Mithridates War begins: the army of the Roman governor Manius Aquillius, in alliance with the king of Bithynia Nicomedes IV, is defeated by the troops of Mithridates.
December 25 – Gnaeus Pompey Strabo triumphs in Rome.

Asia
An uprising in Egypt against Ptolemy X, he was killed, his brother Ptolemy Lafour, who arrived in Egypt from Cyprus, was declared king. Cyprus and Egypt are reunited under one government.

China
Renewal of the peace and kinship treaty.

Born.
Spurius Metius Tarpa (after 36/35 BC), Roman playwright and theater critic.

Died.
89, June 11 – Titus Didius, Consul;
Marcus Emilius Scavre, Princeps of the Senate
Lucius Portius Cato, Consul of the current year, died in battle.
Marius Egnatius (or Egnatius), one of the leaders of the rebellious Italics in 91-88 BC;
Ptolemy X Alexander I, king of Egypt, killed by the rebellious Egyptians.