Republican Rome Timeline

Timeline of the Period of the Late Republic of Rome

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N.S. Gill

Updated on July 18, 2018

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Main Wars of the Roman Republic

3rd Century - 200s B.C.

Archimedes' lever engraving from Mechanics Magazine published in London in 1824. PD Courtesy of Wikipedia.

298-290 - The Third Samnite War.
295 - Sentinum.
283 - Lake Vadimonis.
281-272 - Pyrrhus.
280 - Battle of Heraclea led by King Pyrrhus of Epirus
279 - Battle of Asculum (Pyrrhic Victory).
274 - Battle of Beneventum.
272 - Rome mistress of Italy; morality at its height.
264 - Period of foreign conquest begins.
264-241 - First Punic War.
263 - Hiero of Syracuse makes peace with Rome.
262 - Capture of Agrigentum.
260 - Naval victory at Mylae.
257 - Tyndaris.
256 - Ecnomus - Regulus at Clupea.
255 - Defeat of Regulus.
249 - Drepana.
241 - Aegatēs Insulae naval battle with C. Lutatius Catulus. Hamilcar Barca.
240 - Beginning of Roman drama, with Livius Andronicus.
237 - Sardinia and Corsica acquired, and provincial system established.
229-228 - First Illyrian War.
227 - Rome makes Sardinia and Sicily its first provinces.
225-222 - First Gallic War.
222 - Gallia Cisalpina acquired by the battle of Telamon.
220 - Hannibal in Spain.
219 - Second Illyrian War. Saguntum.
218-202 - Second Punic War. Timeline of the 2nd Punic War.
218 - Ticinus - Trebia.
217 - Trasimenus - Casilinum.
216 - Cannae.
212 - Capture of Syracuse. Archimedes.
207 - Baecula - Metaurus.
202 - Zama.
214-205 - First Macedonian War.
204 - Cult of Magna Mater introduced.

Roman Literature Timeline

2nd Century - 100s B.C.

Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, by Noel Halle, 1779 (Musee Fabre). Public Domain. Courtesy of Wikipedia.

200-197 - Second Macedonian War.
198 - Battle of Cynoscephalae.
190 - Magnesia.
186 - Bacchanalia suppressed.
183 - Death of Africanus, Hannibal, and Philopoemen.
171-168 - Third Macedonian War.
168 - Battle of Pydna.
150 - War with Masinissa. The war in Lusitania.
149-146 - Third Punic War.
149 - Death of Cato the Elder.
148-133 - Numantine War.
147-46 - Achaean War.
146 - Destruction of Carthage and Corinth.
143-133 - The Numantine War.
137 - Tiberius Gracchus is Quaestor in Spain.
134-132 - The Servile War.
133 - Tiberius Gracchus murdered.
129 - Death of Scipio Africanus the younger.
126 - Expulsion of allies from Rome.
125 - Revolt of Fregellae
123, 122 - Gaius Gracchus elected tribune. Extension of the Agrarian law. Soldiers equipped at public expense.
121 - Death of Gaius Gracchus.
120 - Accession of Mithradates King of Pontus.
118-104 - The Jugurthine War - Metellus. Marius. Sulla.
108 - Marius elected consul.
105 - Battle of Arausio.
104 - Marius 2nd Consulship. Re-elected every year from 104 - 100 B.C.
102 - Battle of Aquae Sextiae (vs. Teutones).
101 - Battle of Vercellae (vs. Cimbri).
100 - Birth of Julius Caesar. Caesar Timeline.

1st Century - 99-44 B.C.

Julius Caesar. Marble, mid-first century A.D., discovery on the island of Pantelleria. — CC Flickr User euthman. Julius Caesar

90-89 - The Italian or Social War.
88 - Mithradates' massacre of Italians.
87 - Proscriptions under Marius. Sulla goes to Greece.
86 - 7th consulship and death of Marius.
86-84 - Sulla's campaign against Mithradates. (86) Sulla's victory over Mithradates at a Battle of Chaeronea. (85) Sulla's victory at the Battle of Orchomenus.
84 - Death of Cinna.
83 - Sulla returns to Italy. Second Mithridatic War.
82 - Proscriptions under Sulla.
81 - Sulla dictator.
80 - Reforms of Sulla.
79 - Sulla resigns as the dictator. War with Sertorius.
78 - Death of Sulla.
74 - 3rd Mithridatic War.
73-71 - Spartacus.
72 - Sertorius in Spain dies.
72-67 - Campaign of Lucullus against Mithradates.
71 - End of war in Spain.
69 - Battle of Tigranocerta.
67 - Pompey conquers the pirates.
67-61 - Pompey in the East.
64 - Pompey makes Syria a Roman province and takes Jerusalem.
63 - Death of Mithradates. Cicero Consul. Catiline. Pompey returns to Italy.
59 - First Triumvirate formed - Caesar's first Consulship.
59 - The Leges Juliae. Clodius - Cicero's banishment. Cato sent to Cyprus.
58-49 - Caesar in Gaul.
57 - Recall of Cicero - Return of Cato.
53 - Death of Crassus.
52 - Murder of Clodius. The trial of Milo for the murder of Clodius (Cicero unsuccessfully defends Milo).
49 - Caesar crosses the Rubicon causing a civil war.
49 - Siege and capture of Ilerda.
48 (Jan. 4) - Caesar sails from Brundisium.
48 - Victory of Pompey near the seaboard.
48 - (Aug. 9) Pharsalia(Sept. 28) Murder of Pompey.Caesar establishes Cleopatra on the throne of Egypt.
47 - Battle of Zela.
47 (Sept.) - Caesar returns to Rome.
46 (Apr. 4) - Thapsus - Death of Cato the younger.
45 (Mar. 17) - Munda.
44 (Mar. 15= The Ides of March). Murder of Caesar. 44 B.C - was also the year: There was an eruption of Mt - Aetna described by Livy[Reference: "In the Wake of Etna, 44 B.C.," by P - Y - Forsyth. Classical Antiquity, Vol - 7, No - 1 (Apr., 1988), pp - 49-57.]

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