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Events
By place
Rome
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Consuls:
Manius Aemilius Lepidus and
Lucius Volcatius Tullus.
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Catiline accused of conspiring against the
Roman Republic with
Autronius and the younger
Sulla.
★ The alliance between
Mithridates VI of Pontus and
Tigranes II of Armenia is broken.
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Battle of the Lycus —
Pompey the Great decisively defeats Mithridates VI, effectively ending the
Third Mithridatic War.
★
Gaius Antonius elected Roman
Praetor.
★ The ''
lex Manilia'', supported by
Cicero gives Pompey command over all of Asia.
★ Cicero becomes
praetor of
Sicily.
Births
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Deaths
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Licinius Macer, Roman annalist