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81 BCE

Sulla is appointed dictator, executes his political enemies in a series of proscriptions, and implements aristocratic reforms to the Roman government. The Second Mithridatic War ends with the status quo. Sang Hongyang and 60 Confucian scholars debate over the state monopoly of Iron and Salt.

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

  • Sulla is appointed dictator, executes his political enemies in a series of proscriptions, and implements aristocratic reforms to the Roman government.source
  • Sang Hongyang and 60 Confucian scholars debate over the state monopoly of Iron and Salt.source

Conflict & Security

  • The Second Mithridatic War ends with the status quo.source

Deaths

  • Ptolemy IX Lathyros, king of Ptolemaic Egyptsource
  • Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, Roman politiciansource
  • Artaxias I (or Arshak), king of Iberia (Georgia)source