64 BC

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Heads of State

Year of the Fire Snake丁巳(at the beginning of Fire Dragon丙辰)

Syria: 248/249

Events

• Rome, under the direction Pompey wars in Asia. This is aimed at the former Bithynia, and the Kingdom of Pontus by Mithridates VI. the province of Bithynia et Pontus one.
• Antioch becomes the capital of the Roman province of Syria.

Born

• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Roman scholar and author († 17 AD)
• Marcus Valerius Messala Corvinus, Roman general and author († 8 AD)
• 64 BC: Nikolaos of Damascus, Greek historian and philosopher

Died

• Antiochus XIII. , King of the Seleucid Empire (* 85 BC)

• Year ( 1st century BC)
• 64 BC