Death of Mithridates Eupator at Panticapaeum
Rome's poison-proof enemy takes his own life at Kerch
Defeated by Pompey, King Mithridates VI of Pontus fled across the Caucasus to the Bosporus and planned a new war on Rome, but in 63 BC his son Pharnaces rebelled. Trapped in Panticapaeum, Mithridates took his own life; the hill in the centre of Kerch still bears his name.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 58 BC–50 BC Caesar's conquest of Gaul — 5 years later
- 49 BC Caesar crosses the Rubicon — 14 years later
- 44 BC Assassination of Julius Caesar — 19 years later
Middle East
- 63 BC Pompey takes Jerusalem — same year
Alive at the time
- Julius Caesar (aged 37)
- Cleopatra (aged 6)
- Augustus (aged 0)
- Cicero (aged 43)
- Pompey the Great (aged 43)
- Herod the Great (aged 9)
- Virgil (aged 7)
- Mithridates VI Eupator (aged 72)