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Heads of State

Year of the Wood horse甲午( at the beginning of the year, water - snake癸巳)

Syria: 225/226

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • Civil war in Rome: After Sulla's departure to Asia Minor Gaius Marius takes over along with Lucius Cornelius Cinna power in Rome.
  • The siege of Athens in the First Mithridatic War by Sulla begins.

Science and Technology

  • Philo of Larissa criticized in two books the conditions prevailing in the Platonic Academy skepticism, but retains its core ideas. This leads to a break with Antiochus of Ascalon, who has turned away entirely from this flow.

Born

Died

  • Marcus Antonius Orator, Roman politician (* 143 BC)
  • Lucius Cornelius Merula, Roman politician
  • Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus, Roman politician (c. 130 BC)
  • Lucius Julius Caesar, Roman politician (c. 135 BC)
  • Publius Licinius Crassus, Roman politician
  • Quintus Catulus Lutatius, Roman politician
  • Quintus Mucius Scaevola, Roman politician (c. 170 BC)
  • Gnaeus Octavius ​​, Roman politician
  • Pompey Strabo, Roman politician
  • Han Wudi, Chinese emperor (* 156 BC)
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