In 72 BC, his troops occupied the Greek coastal cities of Scythia Minor ( modern Dobruja region, Romania / Bulgaria ), which had sided with Rome's Hellenistic arch-enemy, king Mithridates VI of Pontus, in the Third Mithridatic War ( 73-63 BC ).

* 86 BC – Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army, enters Athens, removing the tyrant Aristion who was supported by troops of Mithridates VI of Pontus.

In the wars in Anatolia between Mithridates VI of Pontus and Sulla of Rome, the Seleucids were largely left alone by both major combatants.

* Mithridates VI, King of Pontus, ( lived 132 BC – 63 BC )

These were a major luxury art form and became keenly collected, with King Mithridates VI of Pontus the first major collector according to Pliny the Elder.

Sulla, rather than facing the charge, escaped with his army and led them to fight the army of Mithridates VI of Pontus in Boeotia.

* 133 BC – Mithridates VI, King of Pontus

Pontus had recently fallen to the Roman Republic, and although politically he was a proponent of Roman imperialism, Strabo belonged on his mother's side to a prominent family whose members had held important positions under the resisting regime of King Mithridates VI of Pontus.

* Mithridates VI, King of Pontus

* Pompey destroys the kingdom of Pontus ; Mithridates VI commits suicide after escaping to the Crimea.

* The alliance between Mithridates VI of Pontus and Tigranes II of Armenia is broken.

* Battle of the Lycus: Pompey the Great decisively defeats Mithridates VI, effectively ending the Third Mithridatic War.

* Pompey takes over the command of Lucius Lucullus in the war against Mithridates VI, and reaping the fruit of the latter's victories.

* Mithridates VI invades Pontus.

* Nicomedes IV of Bithynia is defeated in battle by a coalition of Nicomedes ' brother Socrates, and Mithridates VI of Pontus.

* Mithridates VI of Pontus invades Bithynia and Cappadocia, thus the First Mithridatic War begins.

* May – King Mithridates VI of Pontus invades Greece.

* Lucius Licinius Murena, the Roman governor of Asia, clashes with the Pontic forces of Mithridates VI, starting the Second Mithridatic War.

* Roman forces under Lucius Lucullus defeat the forces of Mithridates VI of Pontus in the Battle of Cyzicus.

Angered by the arrangement, Mithridates VI of Pontus declares war on Rome and invades Bithynia, Cappadocia and Paphlagonia, thus starting the Third Mithridatic War.

* The uprising of Saumachus against Mithridates VI in the Bosporan Kingdom.

* Mithridates VI Eupator becomes king of Bosporus.

The city was added to the kingdom of Pontus by Mithridates VI Eupator and it became home port for the Pontic fleet.

* Mithridates VI Eupator recruited a large number of Iranians along with the Galatians into the Pontic army during the Mithridatic Wars against Rome, using the Leucosyri, Persians and Scythians.

::::: i. Tiberius Julius Mithridates, King of the Bosporan Kingdom, died 68 AD, died without issue

* King Mithridates IV dies, Vologases III claims the throne and extened his rule through the Parthian Empire.

* King Vologases IV, son of Mithridates IV of Parthia, unites under his rule the Parthian Empire.

** Mithridates I ( or Mithradates ), " Great King " of Parthia from about 171 BC who will turn Parthia into a major political power and expand the empire westward into Mesopotamia ( d. 138 BC )

* Mithridates I, King of Parthia ( b. c. 195 BC )

* Mithridates II succeeds Artabanus I as King of Parthia.

* Mithridates I ( or Mithradates ), " Great King " of Parthia from about 171 BC who will turn Parthia into a major political power and expand the empire westward into Mesopotamia ( d. 138 BC )

Iotapa left Egypt to return to her father and later married her maternal cousin King Mithridates III of Commagene, who was of Armenian and Greek descent.

The first few years of his kingship were relatively peaceful, but soon King Mithridates VI of Pontus ( the maternal grand-uncle of Nicomedes IV ), one of Rome's greatest enemies during the late Republic, began harassing Bithynia's borders.

McGing, The foreign policy of Mithridates VI Eupator, King of Pontus, BRILL, 1986

* Tiberius Julius Mithridates, 1st century Roman Client King

After the Social War, King Mithridates of Pontus began his bid to conquer Rome's eastern provinces and invaded Greece.

Cyzicus was held for the Romans against King Mithridates VI of Pontus who besieged it with 300, 000 men in 74 BC, but it withstood him stoutly, and the siege was raised by Lucullus: the loyalty of the city was rewarded by an extension of territory and other privileges.

In 222 BC, Antiochus III married Princess Laodice of Pontus, a daughter of King Mithridates II of Pontus and Princess Laodice of the Seleucid Empire.

Housman's A Shropshire Lad, in which the poet likens reading dark poems to King Mithridates ' self-immunization against poisons ), he realizes that Urquhart laced an omelette with arsenic and shared it with Boyes after having built up an immunity to the poison with small doses over a long period.

Housman's A Shropshire Lad, referring to King Mithridates VI of Pontus, who supposedly built tolerance against a whole range of deadly poisons by the same method ( known as Mithridatism ) as Urquhart.

Antiochus spent the final years of his life attempting to reclaim the lost Eastern territories, overrun by the Parthians under their " Great King ", Mithridates I.

Antiochus I was the son and probably the only child of King Mithridates I Callinicus and Queen Laodice VII Thea of Commagene.