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  • Pergamon (Present-Day Bergama, Turkey)
    133 BC
    Kingdom of Pergamon

    Last Attalid king died

    Pergamon (Present-Day Bergama, Turkey)
    133 BC

    The last Attalid king, Attalus III died and bequeathed the kingdom to the Roman Republic in 133 BC.




  • Syria, Iraq, and Iran
    133 BC
    Seleucid Empire

    Sidetes turned east with the full might of the Royal Army

    Syria, Iraq, and Iran
    133 BC

    Hard-won control of Coele-Syria was threatened by the Jewish Maccabee rebels. Once-vassal dynasties in Armenia, Cappadocia, and Pontus were threatening Syria and northern Mesopotamia; the nomadic Parthians, brilliantly led by Mithridates I of Parthia, had overrun upland Media (home of the famed Nisean horse herd); and Roman intervention was an ever-present threat. Sidetes managed to bring the Maccabees to heel and frighten the Anatolian dynasts into a temporary submission; then, in 133, he turned east with the full might of the Royal Army (supported by a body of Jews under the Hasmonean prince, John Hyrcanus) to drive back the Parthians.




  • Mayi, Bingzhou (Present-Day Shuozhou, Shanxi, China)
    Jun, 133 BC
    Imperial China (Qin and Han dynasties)

    Battle of Mayi

    Mayi, Bingzhou (Present-Day Shuozhou, Shanxi, China)
    Jun, 133 BC

    A Han deception failed to lure the Xiongnu into an ambush at Mayi.




  • Pergamon (Present-Day Bergama, Turkey)
    133 BC
    Kingdom of Pergamon

    Last Attalid king died

    Pergamon (Present-Day Bergama, Turkey)
    133 BC

    The last Attalid king, Attalus III died and bequeathed the kingdom to the Roman Republic in 133 BC.




  • Syria, Iraq, and Iran
    133 BC
    Seleucid Empire

    Sidetes turned east with the full might of the Royal Army

    Syria, Iraq, and Iran
    133 BC

    Hard-won control of Coele-Syria was threatened by the Jewish Maccabee rebels. Once-vassal dynasties in Armenia, Cappadocia, and Pontus were threatening Syria and northern Mesopotamia; the nomadic Parthians, brilliantly led by Mithridates I of Parthia, had overrun upland Media (home of the famed Nisean horse herd); and Roman intervention was an ever-present threat. Sidetes managed to bring the Maccabees to heel and frighten the Anatolian dynasts into a temporary submission; then, in 133, he turned east with the full might of the Royal Army (supported by a body of Jews under the Hasmonean prince, John Hyrcanus) to drive back the Parthians.




  • Mayi, Bingzhou (Present-Day Shuozhou, Shanxi, China)
    Jun, 133 BC
    Imperial China (Qin and Han dynasties)

    Battle of Mayi

    Mayi, Bingzhou (Present-Day Shuozhou, Shanxi, China)
    Jun, 133 BC

    A Han deception failed to lure the Xiongnu into an ambush at Mayi.




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