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Mithridates VI

7 dated entries naming Mithridates VI, drawn from 7 separate years between 107 BCE and 63 BCE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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2nd century BC

  • 107 BCEThe uprising of Saumachus against Mithridates VI in the Bosporan Kingdom.source

1st century BC

  • 89 BCEMithridates VI of Pontus invades Bithynia and Cappadocia, thus beginning the First Mithridatic War.source
  • 88 BCEMay – 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.source
  • 83 BCELucius Licinius Murena, the Roman governor of Asia, clashes with the Pontic forces of Mithridates VI, starting the Second Mithridatic War.source
  • 75 BCENicomedes 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.source
  • 64 BCEPompey destroys the kingdom of Pontus; king Mithridates VI commits suicide after escaping to the Crimea.source
  • 63 BCEMithridates VI, King of Pontus (b. 135 BC)source

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