Seleucus VI Epiphanes (c. 115 – 94 BC) was a Seleucid monarch who reigned as King of Syria between 96 and 94 BC during the Hellenistic period. He was the son of Antiochus VIII and his Egyptian wife Tryphaena. A period of civil war between his father and his uncle Antiochus IX ended in 96 BC when his father was assassinated. Antiochus IX then occupied the capital Antioch while Seleucus VI established his power base in western Cilicia. After his uncle was killed, Seleucus VI became the master of the capital but shared Syria with his brother Demetrius III and his cousin Antiochus X. According to the ancient historian Appian, Seleucus VI was a violent ruler. He taxed his dominions extensively to support his wars, and resisted allowing the cities a measure of autonomy, as former kings allowed. His reign did not last long; in 94 BC, he was expelled from Antioch by Antiochus X, who followed him to the Cilician city of Mopsuestia, where his attempts to raise money led to riots that eventually claimed his life. Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seleucus_VI_Epiphanes> _______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries: 1797: French Revolutionary Wars: British forces commanded by Lieutenant-General Ralph Abercromby invaded the Spanish colonial port of San Juan, Puerto Rico. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_San_Juan_%281797%29> 1907: Minas Geraes, the first of three Brazilian dreadnought battleships, was laid down, sparking a vastly expensive South American naval arms race with Argentina and Chile. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_American_dreadnought_race> 1951: The Peak District was designated the first national park in the United Kingdom. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_District> 1971: Ustaše-affiliated Croatian separatists attacked the Yugoslav embassy in Stockholm, fatally shooting the ambassador, Vladimir Rolović. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Yugoslav_Embassy_shooting> _____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day: implacable: 1. Not able to be placated or appeased. 2. Impossible to prevent or stop; inexorable, unrelenting, unstoppable. 3. Adamant; immovable. <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/implacable> ___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:   I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.   --Gospel of John <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gospel_of_John>