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66 BCE

Catiline accused of conspiring against the Roman Republic with Autronius and the younger Sulla (also in 63 BC during the consulship of Cicero). Battle of the Lycus: Pompey the Great decisively defeats Mithridates VI, effectively ending the Third Mithridatic War. The lex Manilia, supported by Cicero gives Pompey command over all of Asia.

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

  • The alliance between Mithridates VI of Pontus and Tigranes II of Armenia is broken.source

Conflict & Security

  • Battle of the Lycus: Pompey the Great decisively defeats Mithridates VI, effectively ending the Third Mithridatic War.source
  • Tigranes II is forced to surrender, by a payment of 6,000 talents, and is reinstated by Pompey as a "friend of the Roman people" to hold Armenia as a buffer zone.source
  • The lex Manilia, supported by Cicero gives Pompey command over all of Asia.source

Exploration & Expansion

  • Consuls: Manius Aemilius Lepidus and Lucius Volcatius Tullus.source

Religion & Belief

  • Catiline accused of conspiring against the Roman Republic with Autronius and the younger Sulla (also in 63 BC during the consulship of Cicero).source
  • Aristobulus II becomes king and high priest of Judea, until 63 BC.source
  • Cicero becomes praetor in Rome.source
  • Gaius Antonius elected Roman praetor.source

Births

  • Octavia (the Younger), grandniece of Julius Caesar (d. 11 BC)source

Deaths

  • Licinius Macer, Roman annalistsource