66 BC

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Contents

Events

By place

Rome

Births

Deaths

Events

By place

Rome

★ Consuls: Manius Aemilius Lepidus and Lucius Volcatius Tullus.

★ 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.

★ 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

★ Licinius Macer, Roman annalist