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74 BCE

Third Mithridatic War: Battle of Cyzicus: Roman forces under Lucius Lucullus defeat the forces of Mithridates VI of Pontus. Publius Servilius Vatia returns to Rome, where he has triumphed against the pirates in Anatolia, and is given the agnomen Isauricus. Nicomedes IV, last king of Bithynia bequeaths his kingdom to the Roman Senate upon his death (75/4 BC).

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

  • Publius Servilius Vatia returns to Rome, where he has triumphed against the pirates in Anatolia, and is given the agnomen Isauricus.source
  • Nicomedes IV, last king of Bithynia bequeaths his kingdom to the Roman Senate upon his death (75/4 BC)source
  • Cyrene becomes a Roman province.source

Conflict & Security

  • Third Mithridatic War: Battle of Cyzicus: Roman forces under Lucius Lucullus defeat the forces of Mithridates VI of Pontus.source

Exploration & Expansion

  • Marcus Antonius (father of Mark Antony), a praetor, receives wide-ranging powers and considerable resources to fight the pirates in the Mediterranean Sea.source

Deaths

  • Nicomedes IV (Philopator), king of Bithyniasource
  • Lucius Aelius Stilo Praeconinus, Roman philologistsource
  • Lucius Octavius, Roman politician and consulsource
  • Zhao of Han, Chinese emperor (b. 94 BC)source