8. The hands of time were turning. The third event recorded is the first death of a ruling monarch.
Volcano Pichincha, descent to the hot spring In 34 CE the tetrarch Philip died, and his tetrarchy, with the newly built capital Caesarea Philippi, stayed without a leader.
9. While the crises so far were soon under control, in 35 CE a crisis began which upset the whole eastern part of the Roman Empire.
It was the year of the death of the Armenian king Artaxias, who was a friend of Rome. The Parthian king Artabanos III. expected the decline of Rome under the emperor Tiberias in his old age; he conquered the Armenian capital Artaxata and appointed his eldest son Arsaces as king (Tacitus, Annals 6, 31ss, Josephus, Antiquities, 18, 4, 4).
Bets were made on the fall of Roman power in the East.