63 BC
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Heads of State
Year of the Earth Horse戊午( at the beginning of the year Fire Snake丁巳)
Syria: 249/250
Events
- OCTOBER 21: Consul Marcus Tullius Cicero learns of the Catiline conspiracy of Lucius Sergius Catilina. The Roman Senate declared the state of emergency with extended powers to the consuls.
- NOVEMBER 8: The second Catiline conspiracy fails.
- Cicero holds until December 5, four speeches against Catiline.
- End of the 3rd Mithridatic War, which had begun 74 BC. Pontos is subject.
- Pompey the Seleucid king Antiochus XIII leaves. kill. So that goes Diadochenreich (see Alexander the Great) the Seleucids in Asia Minor under. Philip II was the last of the Philorhomaios Seleukidengeschlechts could not win again the throne.
Born
- September 23: Augustus, Roman emperor († 14 AD)
- Dynamis, Queen of the Bosporan Kingdom († 7 or 8 AD)
- 64 or 63 BC by Marcus Agrippa Vipsanius, Roman general († 12 BC )
- 63 BC: Strabo, a Greek historian and geographer ( † after 23 AD )
Died
- December 05: Gaius Cornelius Cethegus, Roman politician
- 05 December: Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura, Roman politician
- Mithridates VI. , King of Pontus (* 132 BC)
- 64 or 63 BC Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius, Roman general and politician