-88

This page relates to the year -88 Calendrier Julien proleptic.

Events

Fine of the reign of Ptolémée {{X}} '' Alexandre {{Ier}} '' in Egypt.
Beginning of the second reign of Ptolémée {{IX}} '' Sôter {{II}} '', restored on the throne of Egypt (fine in -81).

Ptolémée Alexandre, scrambled with his mother Cléopâtre {{III}}, returns to Cyprus. His/her brother Ptolémée Sôter, reconstitutes an army in Syria. This threat reconciles Ptolémée Alexandre and its mother. But as soon as the danger is drawn aside, Cléopâtre wants to get rid once again of his/her son Ptolémée Alexandre, but this one assassinates it. Its crime starts a revolt. It offers Egypt to the Roman senate, which refuses, and must flee. Ptolémée Sôter returns to the capacity and control surface the kingdoms of joined together Cyprus and Egypt. It enters as a triumphant victor to Alexandria, but High-Egypt enters in dissidence and it must subject it by the force.

Beginning of the First war of Mithridate (fine in -85). Mithridate {{VI}} destroys the Bithynie, combined of Rome, then raises the Greeks of Asia, then Greece itself against the Roman domination.
Vespers of Éphèse : 80 000 Romains are massacred by Mithridate VI in Asia Mineure.
the fleet of Mithridate {{VI}} of the Bridge makes the seat of Délos and its troops kill 20 000 of the inhabitants of the island.

Alexandre Jannée decides to negotiate with the revolted Pharisiens. Those refuse any discussion and call upon the king Séleucide Démétrios {{III}} which beats Jannée close to Sichem. However the 6000 Juifs of the army of Démétrios give up it soon and this last hastens to regain the Syria. Jannée crushes then revolted and seizes their chiefs taken refuge in Bémésélis (Misilya, in the south of Jenîn?). Eight hundreds of them, brought back connected to Jerusalem, are crucifiés during a banquet, while one cuts the throat of under their eyes their wives and their children. Terrified, 8000 opponents flee in exile (Damas?).

With Rome, Consul At of Lucius Cornelius Sulla I, Quintus Pompeius Rufus.
Sylla beats the Samnites by a short campaign.
the Powerful orator of the plebs Publius Sulpicius Rufus lance an electoral reform in which it divides between the thirty-five tributes the Italians and freed confirmed, moving the majority in the Comices with the profit of Marius.
Sylla is charged by the Roman Sénat with the fight against Mithridate {{VI}} but a vote of the Comices will allot the station to Marius. This reversal is obtained by Publius Sulpicius Rufus, which gives up its quality of patrician to become Tribun of the plebs, which carries the adhesion of the Comices in favor of Marius.

Civil war: Sylla, then in Campania, runs to Rome. One fights in the streets and with the forum, but Sylla, for lack of army, must give up Rome. Decided with a coup d'etat, it succeeds in acquiring supports it of its army and goes on Rome, with six legions (35 000 men). Marius and Sulpicius improvise a street fighting. There is a scuffle with the Esquilinium Forum, but the forces are too unequal. Sylla puts in escape the democratic bands and occupies the city militarily. A senatus consult cancels for legal flaw the laws of Sulpicius. Marius loses his command, and the Italians and freed are expelled of the thirty-five tribes and take again their former electoral statute. Marius is declared out the law with eleven of his political friends, of which Sulpicius, which delivered by a slave, is cut the throat of. Marius succeeds in gaining the Africa where it is received by the king of Numidie Hiempsal II. At the beginning of -87, Sylla embarks for the East.

the knight dissenting Roman Sertorius organizes resistance against Sylla in Hispanie (Spain) of -88 to -72.

One starts to use in Europe the hydraulic force in water mills to grind the grain.

Publis Sulpicius Rufus, Powerful orator of the plebs and in favor of Marius, killed with Laurentum at the time of the return of Sylla.
Marcus Aemilius Scaurus
Cléopâtre {{III}}.
Ptolémée {{X}} '' Alexandre {{Ier}} ''.
Mithridate II of Parthie

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