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For the processor, see Intel 8086

Intel 8086

The 8086 is a 16-bit microprocessor chip designed by Intel and introduced on the market in 1978, which gave rise to the x86 architecture. Intel 8088, released in 1979, was essentially the same chip, but with an external 8-bit bus , and is notable as the processor used in the original IBM PC....
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Events

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Roman Empire

• Domitian
  Domitian
  
  Titus Flavius Domitianus , commonly known as Domitian, was a Roman Emperor who reigned from 14 September 81 until his death. Domitian was the last emperor of the Flavian dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire between 69 and 96, encompassing the reigns of Domitian's father Vespasian , his elder brother Titus , and that of Domitian himself...
   introduces the Capitoline Games
  Capitoline Games
  
  In Ancient Rome, the Capitoline Games were annual games, or combats instituted by Marcus Furius Camillus, 387 BC, in honor of Temple of Jupiter , and in commemoration of the Capitoline Hill's not being taken by the Gauls that same year....
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• The Roman General Trajan
  Trajan
  
  Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus, commonly known as Trajan , was a Roman Emperors who reigned from 98 until his death in 117. Born Marcus Ulpius Traianus into a nonpatrician family in the Hispania Baetica province , Trajan rose to prominence during the reign of emperor Domitian, serving as a general in the Roman army along the Limes G...
  , future emperor, begins a campaign to crush an uprising in Germany
  Germany
  
  Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
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• Germany is divided into two provinces, Upper- and Lower-Germany.
• Roman legions face disaster in Dacia
  Dacia
  
  In ancient geography, Dacia was the land of the Dacians. It was named by the ancient Greeks "Getae". Dacia was a large district of East-Central Europe, bounded on the north by the Carpathian Mountains, on the south by the Danube, on the west by the Tisia or Tisza, on the east by the Tyras or Dniester, now in eastern Moldova....
   in the First Battle of Tapae
  First Battle of Tapae
  
  The two first battles of Tapae where fought in 87 and 88 AD between the Roman army and the Dacians. They were a consequence of Roman Emperor Domitian's campaign to protect the Roman province of Moesia, nearly two decades before the Second Battle of Tapae during the Dacian wars in Trajan's reign....
  , when Cornelius Fuscus
  Cornelius Fuscus
  
  Cornelius Fuscus was a Ancient Rome general who fought campaigns under the Roman Emperor of the Flavian dynasty. During the reign of Domitian, he served as Praetorian prefect of the imperial bodyguard, known as the Praetorian Guard, from 81 until his death in 86....
  , Praetorian prefect
  Praetorian prefect
  
  Praetorian prefect was the constant title of a high office in the Roman Empire state that changed fundamentally in nature.The praetorian prefect was commander of the Praetorian Guard until Constantine I abolished the guard in 314....
  , launches a powerful offensive that becomes a failure. Encircled in the valley of Timi, he dies along with his entire army. Rome must pay tribute to the Dacians in exchange for a vague recognition of Rome's importance.

Asia

• Ban Gu
  Ban Gu
  
  Ban Gu , courtesy name Mengjian , was a 1st century China historian best known for his part in compiling the Book of Han....
   (Pan Kou) and his sister Ban Zhao
  Ban Zhao
  
  Ban Zhao , courtesy name Huiban , was the first female China historian. She was married to a local resident Cao Shishu at the age of fourteen, and was called in the court by the name as Venerable Madame Cao ....
   (Pan Tchao) compose a History of China
  China
  
  China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
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Births

• September 19 — Antoninus Pius
  Antoninus Pius
  
  Titus Aurelius Fulvus Boionius Arrius Antoninus , generally known in English as Antoninus Pius was Roman Emperors from 138 to 161. He was the fourth of the Five Good Emperors and a member of the Aurelii....
  , Roman emperor (138
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Deaths