The Asiatic Vespers
On Mithridates' orders 80,000 Romans and Italians are killed
In early 88 BC King Mithridates VI of Pontus ordered the cities of Asia Minor to kill all Romans and Italians living there on an appointed day; about 80,000 people died. The massacre opened the First Mithridatic War, in which Sulla was given the command.
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Americas
- c. 100 BC The founding of Teotihuacan — 12 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Julius Caesar (aged 12)
- Emperor Wu of Han (aged 68)
- Sima Qian (aged 57)
- Cicero (aged 18)
- Pompey the Great (aged 18)
- Spartacus (aged 15)
- Mithridates VI Eupator (aged 47)