Timeline of the Roman Republic
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Updated: 15 Dec 2018
CSTS B207: Hellenistic/Rom.Repub.Hist.
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Created byElinor Berger
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Rome becomes a republicHannibal invades ItalySpartacus the gladiator leads the slaves
in an uprising.Illyrian WarsBattle of CannaeFirst Macedonian WarSiege of Syracuse (214-212 BCE)First Macedonian War: Treaty of PhoeniceSecond Punic War:
The consul of Scipio Africanus
landed an invasion fleet at UticaBattle of ZamaSecond Punic War:
Carthage accepted Roman
conditions for peace, end of the warSecond Macedonian WarThe provinces of Haspania
Ulterior and Hispania Citerior
were organizedThe number of quaestors was
increased to 12The number of Praetors
was increased to sixSecond Macedonian War:
Macedonia surrendered conquests
in Greece and agreed to pay war
indemnity, ending the warRoman-Seleucid War:
The Seleucid Empire invaded GreeceRoman-Seleucid War:
The Seleucid Empire signed the
Treaty of ApameaThe Lex Villia annalis was passedThird Macedonian War:
Rome declared war on MacedoniaThird Macedonian War:
The Macedonian king Perseus
of Macedon was capturedThe Lusitanian War:
The Lusitanians of Hispania
Ulterior rebelled against RomeFourth Macedonian War:
An Andriscus rebelled against Rome,
claiming to be Perseus' son and the r
ightful king of MacedoniaThird Punic War:
Rome declared war on CarthageThe Lex Calpurnia was passed, establishing a
Praetor-led court to hear appeals against
extortionate taxes levied by governors in the
provincesFourth Macedonian War:
Andriscus was surrendered to Rome to be
executedThird Punic War: Roman forces breached the
city of Carthage, burned it, and enslaved its
surviving inhabitantsBattle of Corinth: Roman forces decisively
defeated the armies of the Achaean League at
CorinthProvince of Macedonia is organizedProvince of Africa is organized on captured
Carthaginian territoryLusitanian War: The Lusitianian leader Viriatus
was assassinated by his three ambassadors to
Rome Audax, Ditalcus, and MinurusLex Gabinia tabellaria:
required secret ballot in elections of all
magistratesThe Tribune of the Plebs Tiberius Gracchus was
beaten to death by a mob of senators led by the
Pontifex Maximus Publius Cornelius Sciptio
Nasica Serapio (consul 138 BCE)The province of Gallia Narbonensis was
organizedThe first Senatus consultum ultimum was
passed, granting the consul Lucius Opimius
emergency powers to defeats partisans of Gaius
GracchusJugurthine War:
Rome declared war on NumidiaGaius Marius was elected consulMarius instituted the Marian reforms of the
military, among them the establishment of a
standing army and the recruitment of non-
property ownersMarius re-elected consulJugurthine War: The Numidian king Jugurtha was
imprisoned in Mamertine PrisonBattle of Arausio: A coalition of the Cimbri and
Teutons inflicted a serious defeat on the Roman
army at modern Orange. Some hundred
thousand Roman soldiers were killed.Marius was elected consul for the first of three
years in a rowBattle of Aquae Sextiae: Rome decisively
defeated the forces of the Teutons and
Ambrones and killed some ninety thousand
soldiers and civiliansBattle of Vercellae: An invasion of Italy by the
Cimbri was decisively defeated by a numerically
inferior Roman force. Some hundred thousand
Cimbri soldiers and civilians were killed along
with their king BoiorixMarius is elected consulAssassins hired by Marius's political allies Lucius
Appuleius Saturninus and Gaius Servilius
Glaucia beat to death Gaius Memmius (tribune),
a candidate for the consulshipSocial War (91-88 BCE): The Roman clients in
Italy the Marsi, the Paeligni, the Vestini, the
Marrucini, the Picentes, the Frentani, the Hirpini,
the Iapyges, Pompeii, Venose, Luciana, and
Samnium rebelled against RomeSulla's first civil war: The consul Sulla led an
army of his partisans across the pomerium into
RomeEnd of the Social WarFirst Mithridatic War:
Roman forces landed in EpirusFirst Mithridatic War:
A peace was agreed between Rome and Pontus
under which the latter returned to its prewar
brothersSulla's second civil war:
Sulla declared dictatorSecond Mithridatic War:
Murena withdrew from PontusSulla resigns dictatorship after enacting
numerous reforms in the same yearFinal consulship of Sulla, he leaves Rome once
the year is overThird Mithridatic War:
Pontus invaded BithyniaThird Servile War: Some seventy gladiators,
slaves of Lentulus Batiatus in Capua, made a
violent escapeSertorian War: Marcus Perpenna Vento, by now
the leader of the Romans in revolt in Iberia, was
executed by the general PompeyThird Servile War: The slaves in rebellion were
decisively defeated by Roman forces near
Petelia. Their leader Spartacus was killed.The last of the Cilician pirates
were wiped out by PompeyThird Mithridatic War:
Defeated, the Pontic king Mithridates VI of
Pontus ordered his friend and body guard to kill
himSiege of Jerusalem: Pompey conquered
Jerusalem and entered the Holy of Holies of the
Second TempleCicero was elected consulSecond Catilinarian conspiracy:
A conspiracy led by the senator Catiline to
overthrow the Republic was exposed before the
Senate. The five conspirators present were
summarily executed in the Mamertine PrisonPompey joined a political alliance, the so-
called First Triumvirate, with the consul Julius
Caesar and the censor Marcus Licinius CrassusConsulship of Julius CaesarGallic Wars: Roman forces barred the westward
migration of the Helvetii across the RhoneBattle of Carrhae: A Parthian army decisively
defeated a numerically superior Roman invasion
force near Harran. Crassus was killedGallic Wars:
The last Gaulish rebels were defeatedCaesar's Civil War:
Caesar illegally crossed the Rubicon into Italy
with his armyCaesar's Civil War:
Caesar landed at Durres in pursuit of Pompey
and his partisans the optimatesCaesar left Africa for Iberia in pursuit of
Pompey's sons Gnaeus Pompeius (son of
Pompey the Great) and Sextus PompeyAssassination of Julius Caesar: Caesar was
assassinated in the Theatre of Pompey by a
conspiracy of senators
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