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Third Servile War: The slaves in rebellion were decisively defeated by Roman forces near Petelia. Their leader Spartacus was killed. 66 BC: The last of the Cilician pirates were wiped out by Pompey. 63 BC: Third Mithridatic War: Defeated, the Pontic king Mithridates VI of Pontus ordered his friend and bodyguard to kill him.
Faustus was followed by two centurions, Furius and Fabius, who each led a cohort, and the Romans soon overcame the Jewish defenders, 12,000 of whom were slaughtered. Only a few Romans troops were killed. [5] [12] Pompey himself entered the Temple's Holy of Holies, which only the High Priest was allowed to enter, and thus desecrated it. He did ...
Between 39 and 38 BC, the Roman general Publius Ventidius Bassus defeated the Parthian army, [8] [9] sending troops under the command of Poppaedius Silo to await the arrival of Herod. [9] Herod landed at Ptolemais and began his campaign against Antigonus with the conquest of the Galilee, marched down the coast to take Jaffa and then relieved ...
The book opens with God appearing to Baruch, declaring that Jerusalem's destruction is imminent due to the people's sins and instructing him to warn others to flee. Overcome with despair, Baruch laments that he would rather die than witness the city's fall, calling Jerusalem " my mother ", [ 288 ] and wonders if the world itself is ending. [ 289 ]
464 – Battle of Bergamo – Romans under General Ricimer defeated Alan invasion of Italy and killed their king. 468 – Battle of Cap Bon - Failure of the invasion of the kingdom of the Vandals by the Western and Eastern Roman Empires. 469 – Battle of Déols - Visigoths defeated Bretons and Gallo-Romans under Riothamus.
The Romans were the first culture to assemble all essential components of the much later steam engine: the crank and connecting rod system, Hero's aeolipile (generating steam power), the cylinder and piston (in metal force pumps), non-return valves (in water pumps), and gearing (in water mills and clocks). [287]
Despite a good fight by the Praetorian Guard, his soldiers were defeated. Macrinus managed to escape to Chalcedon, but his authority was lost: he was betrayed and executed after a short reign of just 14 months. After his father's defeat outside Antioch, Diadumenian tried to escape east to Parthia, but was captured and killed.
439: Battle of Toulouse – Visigoths led by Theodoric I defeat Romans under General Litorius, who is killed. 439–442 Vandal War (439–442) 19 October – Battle of Carthage – Romans lose Carthage to the Vandals. [12] 455: Valentinian III assassinated and overthrown by Petronius Maximus.