{"slug": "mithridates-vi", "label": "Mithridates VI", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridates_VI", "wikidata": null, "qid": null, "description": null, "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [-106, -62], "span_label": ["107 BCE", "63 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "kingdom-of-pontus", "label": "Kingdom of Pontus", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "cappadocia", "label": "Cappadocia", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "bithynia", "label": "Bithynia", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "roman-republic", "label": "Roman Republic", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "asia-roman-province", "label": "Asia (Roman province)", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "paphlagonia", "label": "Paphlagonia", "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}, {"slug": "pamphylia", "label": "Pamphylia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pompey", "label": "Pompey", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"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": -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": "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": -63, "year_label": "64 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "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"}}]}