88 BC e.

Roman Republic

• Consuls : Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (patrician) and Quintus Pompey Rufus (plebeian); praetors : Guy Norban , Quintus Ancharius , Quintus Cecilius Metellius Pius and Lucius Licinius Moray ; propreter : Publius Sextile (in Africa ); plebeian aedil : Quintus Cecilius Metellus Celer ^{[1] [2] [3]} ; popular tribunes : Publius Antistius and Publius Sulpicius Rufus ; Quaestors : Guy Pomponius and Lucius Octavius ^[4] ; monetary triumphs : Gaius Marcius Censorin ^{[5] [6]} and Quintus Oppius .
• Summer - End of the Allied War . The resistance of the Italians is finally broken.
• Sulla will marry Cecilia Metella (daughter of Lucius Metella Dalmatik ).
• Union of Sulpicius Rufus with Mary . Publius Sulpicius Ruf proposes a law on the distribution of Italics in all tribes, which would allow them to exert influence in comitia . After clashes in the forum, his bill is passed. With the help of the Italians, Marius was appointed commander of the Roman army instead of Sulla.
• Sulla leads his soldiers, who were in a camp near Nola, to Rome and captures the city after a street battle. Consul Quintus Pompey Rufus supports Sulla. Marius, Publius Sulpicius Rufus and ten other supporters are outlawed. Marius flees to Africa , Sulpicius Rufus is killed, his laws are repealed.
• Consul Quintus Pompey Ruf sent to Pitsen to take command of the army of Gnei Pompey Strabo , but there he was killed under not very clear circumstances, Gnei Pompey Strabo retained command.
• First Mithridates War :

• • Mithridates troops invade the Roman province of Asia. The attempt of the Romans to organize resistance fails. The Roman governor Manius Aquilius fled to Mytilene , but its inhabitants extradite him to Mithridates. Aquilius executed.
  • Mithridates declares Pergamum his capital, and Asia free from Roman rule.
  • Ephesian Vespers - massacres of Romans and Italics in Asia, more than 80,000 Roman citizens killed.
  • The Pontic fleet enters the Aegean Sea, the siege of Rhodes begins, where many Romans fled, however, without enough siege weapons, Mithridates lifts the siege, limiting itself to the blockade of the island.
  • The commander Mithridates Archelaus with a fleet and an army was sent to Greece. The island policies of the Aegean Sea cross to the side of Mithridates, only Delos provides resistance.
  • Aristion, with the help of Archelaus, comes to power in Athens, Athens goes to the side of Mithridates.

Asia

• Demetrius III Eucher opposes Philip Philadelphus and besieges him in Verea. Philip calls for help from the Arabs and Mithridates II , king of Parthia. Parthians force Demetrius to surrender. In captivity, he soon dies.
• The king of Parthia, Mithridates II , dies; in Parthia, the struggle for power begins between his son Orod I and the usurper Gotarz I.
• Taking advantage of the turmoil in Parthia after the death of the king, the Armenian king Tigran II begins the war against Gotarz I, the Armenian troops invade Assyria and Media.

China

• Conquest Cheshes .

• Quintus Pompey Rufus , consul of this year, is killed;
• Publius Sulpicius Rufus , the tribune of the people, was killed;
• Manii Aquilius - Consul 101 BC e. executed by order of Mithridates;
• Mithridates II - king of Parthia.

1. ↑ Valery Maxim . Memorable Acts and Sayings, VI, 1 (8);
2. ↑ Münzer F. Caecilius 85 // Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). - 1897, 1918. - Bd. III 1, S III. - Sps. 1208,222;
3. ↑ Alexander M. Trials in The Late Roman Republic: 149 to 50 BC. - University of Toronto Press , 1990. - No. 371;
4. ↑ Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum 9, 4541 ;
5. ↑ Appian of Alexandria . Roman history . Civil Wars, I, 93;
6. ↑ Crawford M. The Roman Republican Coinage. - London : Cambridge University Press , 1974. - Vol. I - Ref. 346.