66 BC

__NOTOC__Year 66 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

*Consuls: Manius Aemilius Lepidus and Lucius Volcatius Tullus.
*Catiline accused of conspiring against the Roman Republic with Autronius and the younger Sulla (also in 63 during the Consulship of Cicero)
*The alliance between Mithridates VI of Pontus and Tigranes II of Armenia is broken.
*Battle of the Lycus — Pompey the Great decisively defeats Mithridates VI, effectively ending the Third Mithridatic War.
*Gaius Antonius elected Roman Praetor.
*The "lex Manilia", supported by Cicero gives Pompey command over all of Asia.
*Cicero becomes praetor of Sicily.

Births

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Deaths

*Licinius Macer, Roman annalist