94 BC explained

Year 94 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caldus and Ahenobarbus (or, less frequently, year 660 Ab urbe condita) and the Third Year of Taishi.

Events

By place

Anatolia

• Approximate date  - Nicomedes IV succeeds his father Nicomedes III as king of Bithynia.

India

• The Shakas start to control northwest India.

Roman Republic

• Consuls: Gaius Coelius Caldus and Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus.^[1]
• The first (failed) attempt to open a Latin rhetorical school.
• Lucius Cornelius Sulla is elected praetor urbanus.

Births

• Zhao of Han, Chinese emperor (d. 74 BC)

Notes and References

1. Book: Johnson . Allan Chester . Coleman-Norton . Paul Robinson . Bourne . Frank Card . Ancient Roman Statutes: A Translation with Introduction, Commentary, Glossary, and Index . 2003 . The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. . 978-1-58477-291-0 . 62 . en.