{"slug": "mithridates-vi-eupator", "label": "Mithridates VI Eupator", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridates_VI_Eupator", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q185126", "qid": "Q185126", "description": "ruler of the Kingdom of Pontus from 120 to 63 BC", "entries": 19, "years": 18, "span": [-134, -62], "span_label": ["135 BCE", "63 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 10}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 4}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 2}], "also_known_as": ["Mithradates VI Eupator", "Mithridates VI", "Mithridates VI of Pontus"], "related": [{"slug": "kingdom-of-pontus", "label": "Kingdom of Pontus", "shared": 8}, {"slug": "cappadocia", "label": "Cappadocia", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "roman-republic", "label": "Roman Republic", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "bithynia", "label": "Bithynia", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "lucullus", "label": "Lucullus", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "asia-roman-province", "label": "Asia (Roman province)", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "paphlagonia", "label": "Paphlagonia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "armenia", "label": "Armenia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "greece", "label": "Greece", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ionia", "label": "Ionia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "phrygia", "label": "Phrygia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lycia", "label": "Lycia", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -134, "year_label": "135 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Mithridates VI, king of Pontus (d. 63 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1288516858#Births", "title": "135 BC", "revid": 1288516858, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -130, "year_label": "131 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Mithridates VI Eupator – king of Pontus (c.120-63 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354421595#Births", "title": "131 BC", "revid": 1354421595, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -119, "year_label": "120 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Mithridates VI Eupator becomes king of Pontus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368395489#Asia_Minor", "title": "120 BC", "revid": 1368395489, "section": "Events › By place › Asia Minor"}}, {"year": -106, "year_label": "107 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The uprising of Saumachus against Mithridates VI in the Bosporan Kingdom.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325703654#Crimea", "title": "107 BC", "revid": 1325703654, "section": "Events › By place › Crimea"}}, {"year": -105, "year_label": "106 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Nicomedes III of Bithynia and Mithridates VI of Pontus share their dominion over Paphlagonia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1314076766#Anatolia", "title": "106 BC", "revid": 1314076766, "section": "Events › By place › Anatolia"}}, {"year": -96, "year_label": "97 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Ariarathes VIII is forced out of Cappadocia by Mithridates, and dies soon afterwards.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1280577092#Asia_Minor", "title": "97 BC", "revid": 1280577092, "section": "Events › By place › Asia Minor"}}, {"year": -89, "year_label": "90 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Nicomedes IV of Bithynia is defeated in battle by a coalition of Nicomedes' brother Socrates, and Mithridates VI of Pontus. Nicomedes flees to Rome.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1332493065#Asia_Minor", "title": "90 BC", "revid": 1332493065, "section": "Events › By place › Asia Minor"}}, {"year": -88, "year_label": "89 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Mithridates VI of Pontus invades Bithynia and Cappadocia, thus beginning the First Mithridatic War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369865499#Asia_Minor", "title": "89 BC", "revid": 1369865499, "section": "Events › By place › Asia Minor"}}, {"year": -87, "year_label": "88 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May", "text": "May – King Mithridates VI of Pontus invades Greece. Defeating the Roman forces four times in succession, he conquers Bithynia, Phrygia, Mysia, Lycia, Pamphylia, Ionia and Cappadocia. The Roman province of Asia is dismantled. On the king's orders, the local authorities in every city of the province round up and put to death all resident Italians in a single day (App.Mith.§§85–91). Plutarch (Sulla 24.4) says that 150,000 are killed, other sources calculate a figure of 80,000 people.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325703284#Greece", "title": "88 BC", "revid": 1325703284, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -82, "year_label": "83 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Lucius Licinius Murena, the Roman governor of Asia, clashes with the Pontic forces of Mithridates VI, starting the Second Mithridatic War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369868116#Roman_Republic", "title": "83 BC", "revid": 1369868116, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -74, "year_label": "75 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Third Mithridatic War: Marcus Aurelius Cotta is defeated by Mithridates in the Battle of Chalcedon.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371365862#Roman_Republic", "title": "75 BC", "revid": 1371365862, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -74, "year_label": "75 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Nicomedes IV of Bithynia bequeaths his kingdom to Rome on his death (75/4 BC). Angered by the arrangement, Mithridates VI of Pontus declares war on Rome and invades Bithynia, Cappadocia and Paphlagonia, thus starting the Third Mithridatic War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371365862#Roman_Republic", "title": "75 BC", "revid": 1371365862, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -73, "year_label": "74 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Third Mithridatic War: Battle of Cyzicus: Roman forces under Lucius Lucullus defeat the forces of Mithridates VI of Pontus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373138869#Roman_Republic", "title": "74 BC", "revid": 1373138869, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -71, "year_label": "72 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Cabira: Lucius Lucullus defeats King Mithridates VI and overruns Pontus. Mithridates flees to Armenia, ruled by his son-in-law Tigranes, who refuses to turn his father-in-law in to Lucius Lucullus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1338545736#Roman_Republic", "title": "72 BC", "revid": 1338545736, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -66, "year_label": "67 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Pompey takes over the command of Lucius Licinius Lucullus in the war against Mithridates VI of Pontus, and reaps the fruit of the latter's victories.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366933711#Roman_Republic", "title": "67 BC", "revid": 1366933711, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -65, "year_label": "66 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The alliance between Mithridates VI of Pontus and Tigranes II of Armenia is broken.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1097162651#Roman_Republic", "title": "66 BC", "revid": 1097162651, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -64, "year_label": "65 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Xiphares, son of Mithridates VI (b. c. 85 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1209552386#Deaths", "title": "65 BC", "revid": 1209552386, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -63, "year_label": "64 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Pompey destroys the kingdom of Pontus; king Mithridates VI commits suicide after escaping to the Crimea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1305139759#Roman_Republic", "title": "64 BC", "revid": 1305139759, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -62, "year_label": "63 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Mithridates VI, King of Pontus (b. 135 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1209877827#Deaths", "title": "63 BC", "revid": 1209877827, "section": "Deaths"}}]}