c.95: Released after ceding "seventy valleys"; Tigranes becomes king of Armenia; he marries Cleopatra, daughter of king Mithridates VI of Pontus
93: Annexation of Sophene
91: After the death of Mithradates II of Parthia, Tigranes reconquers the "seventy valleys", and adds Osroene (Edessa), Nisibis, Gordyene, Atropatene, and Adiabene
71: After setbacks during the Third Mithridatic War, Mithridates VI of Pontus flees to his son-in-law, who refuses to extradite him to the Romans.
69: the Roman commander Lucullus attacks Armenia and defeats Tigranes at Tigranocerta: Lucullus appoints Antiochus XIII Asiaticus as ruler of Syria
68: Second Armenian defeat at Artaxata
68/67: Tigranes loses Nisibis to the Romans, but he is saved by the recall of Lucullus
Pompey the Great. Louvre, Paris (France)
Tigranes' son Tigranes flees to Lucullus' successor, Pompey the Great
King Tigranes surrenders to Pompey and is forced to give up most of his conquests; in return, he is recognized as friend and ally (amicus et socius) of the Roman people