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Roman–Mithridatic Wars (110–65 BC) - events| 88 BC | Pontus, Rome, Asia | King Mithridates VI the Great of Pontus invades the Roman province of Asia. He captures the city of Pergamum and massacres unpopular Roman and Italian merchants and officials. Mithridates' invasion comes after the king of Bithynia tries to invade Pontus on Roman advice. | | 87 BC–86 BC | Greece, Rome, Pontus | The Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla presses Mithridates' general, Archelaus, back onto Athens and besieges the city. In the spring of 86 BC Athens falls and is sacked, though its great reputation saves it from total destruction. The Athenian tyrant and ally of Mithridates, Aristion, is captured and killed. Sulla publishes his losses as only 15 men. | | 87 BC | Greece, Rome | In Rome, Cinna, the consul left behind by Lucius Cornelius Sulla, stirs up trouble and is forced to leave the city. He joins forces with the Roman general and politician Gaius Marius; the two return to Rome, name themselves consuls, and institute a massacre of patricians. After only 18 days of consulship, Marius dies of pleurisy. | | 84 BC | Greece, Rome, Pontus | The Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla and King Mithridates VI the Great of Pontus agree peace terms at a meeting near Troy. Sulla sails for Brundisium, leaving two legions to police Rome's Asiatic territories. Heavy taxation on those who had taken the enemy side, and looting, force people to borrow heavily, swelling the purses of Roman money lenders. Lucius Cornelius Cinna, ruling as tyrant in Rome, packs the Senate with his followers and declares Sulla an outlaw. A financial crisis ensues, which Cinna tries to allay by the remission of debts, but the unrest is to result in his death at the hands of his own troops. | | 65 BC | Rome, Pontus, Armenia | King Mithridates VI Eupator the Great of Pontus is decisively defeated by the Roman general Pompey the Great near Dasteira in Pontus (later renamed Nicopolis, ‘City of Victory’), and flees to the Crimea. Pompey also defeats King Tigranes of Armenia, who is allowed to retain his kingdom of Armenia as a vassal prince and a bulwark against Parthia, but loses all his foreign acquisitions. |
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