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82 BC| c. 400 BC–AD c. 250 | Central America [everyday life] | The Late Formative (or pre-Classic) period of Mayan culture takes place in Mexico. By 400 BC, large structures have been built at several sites in the tropical lowland jungle. In the highlands, people begin to put up large clay platforms, some the basis for temples and others for elite houses, flanking open plazas. | | c. 200 BC–AD c. 200 | South America [religion] | During this period the Nazca Lines are drawn in the desert along the south coast of Peru. These are enormous stylized outlines of animals, including a monkey, whale, spider, and hummingbird, and sets of parallel lines, some as long as 20 km/12 mi. They are believed to be a development of Chavín de Huantar art; they may have had religious significance, or they may have been connected with astronomy. | | c. 85 BC–AD c. 52 | East Asia [art] | The earliest known Chinese lacquer (found at Lak Lang in North Korea in modern times) is produced. | | c. 82 BC | Rome [births and deaths] | Mark Antony, Roman general who influenced the end of the Roman Republic, and who is known for his association with Cleopatra of Egypt, born (–30 BC). | | 82 BC | Rome [administration] | Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla enters Rome as victor and institutes his ‘Proscription’ lists – lists of enemies who are to be murdered and have their property confiscated. He includes Julius Caesar's name in this list after he refuses to divorce his wife, Cornelia, the daughter of the rebel Roman politician Cinna, but is persuaded to delete it. He is appointed dictator under a law of the interrex Lucius Valerius Flaccus. |
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