72 BC

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Heads of State

Year of the Earth Rooster己酉(at the beginning of Earth Monkey戊申)

Syria: 240/241

Events

  • Slave revolts in the Roman Empire: The army of Spartacus grows to allegedly 200,000. Consul Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus suffered a heavy defeat in a battle.
  • Spring: Consul Lucius Gellius Publicola defeated the army of slave Crixus, who has separated from Spartacus, devastating.
  • Sertorian end of the war.
  • Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus, proconsul in Macedonia leads, victorious war against the Thracian Bessi and some Greek cities ( Apollonia, Kallatis, Tomis and Olbia ) in Scythia Minor, and brings them under Roman rule.

Died

  • Crixus, leader of rebel slaves against Rome
  • Marcus Perperna, Roman politician
  • Quintus Sertorius, Roman politician ( * 123 BC)
  • Winter 73/72 BC: Oenomaus, leader of rebel slaves against Rome
  • Year ( 1st century BC)
  • 72 BC
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