64 BC

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Year 64 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

• Servilius Rullus, Roman tribune, proposes an agrarian reform law.
• Pompey destroys the kingdom of Pontus; Mithridates VI commits suicide after escaping to the Crimea.
• Pompey first annexed Syria, then captured Jerusalem, annexing Judea.

Syria

• Antiochus XIII Asiaticus deposed; this is considered by some the end of the Seleucid dynasty.

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