Pompey takes Jerusalem
A Roman general enters the Holy of Holies; Judea falls to Rome
In 63 BC Pompey, having finished the war with Mithridates, intervened in the quarrel of the Hasmonean brothers Hyrcanus II and Aristobulus II and took the Temple Mount after a siege. He entered the Holy of Holies but left its treasures untouched; Judea became a dependency of Rome.
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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
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)