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PROLOGUE THE TRIUMPH OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC
ONE THE BEASTS OF ITALY
TWO THE STEPCHILDREN OF ROME
THREE DAGGERS IN THE FORUM
FOUR A CITY FOR SALE
FIVE THE SPOILS OF VICTORY
SIX THE GOLDEN EARRING
SEVEN MARIUS’S MULES
EIGHT THE THIRD FOUNDER OF ROME
NINE ITALIA
TEN THE RUINS OF CARTHAGE
ELEVEN THE SPIKED BOOTS
TWELVE CIVIL WAR
THIRTEEN DICTATOR FOR LIFE
146 Aemilianus sacks Carthage
Mummius sacks Corinth
Senate annexes Greece and Africa 139 Secret ballot for electoral assemblies 137 Numantine Affair
Secret ballot for judicial assemblies 135 Beginning of First Servile War in Sicily 134 Aemilianus departs for Numantia
Death of King Attalus of Pergamum 133 Tribunate of Tiberius Gracchus
Passage of
Fall of Numantia
Beginning of Aristonicus’s revolt
Death of Tiberius Gracchus 132 Anti-Gracchan tribunal
End of First Servile War 131 Secret ballot for legislative assemblies 130 End of Aristonicus’s revolt 129 Death of Scipio Aemilianus 125 Fulvius Flaccus proposes Italian citizenship
Revolt of Fregellae 124 Lucius Opimius sacks Fregellae 123 First tribunate of Gaius Gracchus 122 Second tribunate of Gaius Gracchus
Founding of Aquae Sextiae
121
Senate issues first
Suicide of Gaius Gracchus
Battle of Isère River in Gaul 119 Prosecution and suicide of Gaius Carbo
Tribunate of Gaius Marius 118 Founding of city of Narbo 117 Marius fails to win aedileship
Death of King Micipsa of Numidia
Jugurtha assassinates Hiempsal 116 Adherbal appeals to Senate for aid
Opimius leads Roman delegation to Numidia
Marius elected praetor in possibly fraudulent election 115 Praetorship of Marius 114 Scordisci defeat Cato
Marius curbs banditry in Spain 113 Jugurtha attacks Adherbal
Cimbri arrive from north
Cimbri defeat Gnaeus Carbo at Noreia 112 Jugurtha besieges Cirta
Jugurtha kills Adherbal
Jugurtha’s soldiers massacre Italians
Rome declares war on Jugurtha 111 Lucius Bestia leads legions to Numidia
Bestia and Scaurus conclude peace with Jugurtha
Memmius calls Jugurtha to Rome
Prosecution and suicide of Gnaeus Carbo 110 Jugurtha assassinates Massiva 109 Jugurtha defeats Romans and forces legions to pass under the yoke
Mamilian Commission established
Metellus’s first campaign in Numidia
Cimbri return and demand land in Italy
Cimbri defeat legions led by Silanus 108 Marius elected consul
Sulla elected quaestor
Marius recruits soldiers from all classes
Jugurtha and King Bocchus of Mauretania forge alliance 107 First consulship of Marius
Marius campaigns in Numidia
Tigurini defeat legions in Gaul 106 Caepio restores control of courts to the Senate
Caepio “loses” the Tolosa gold
Marius defeats Jugurtha and Bocchus near Cirta
Birth of Cicero
Birth of Pompey the Great 105 Sulla induces Bocchus to hand Jugurtha over to the Romans
Cimbri wipe out legions at Battle of Arausio
Marius elected to second consulship 104 Second consulship of Marius
Triumph of Marius over Jugurtha
Marius reforms legions in Gaul
Beginning of Second Servile War in Sicily
Senate relieves Saturninus of his duties 103 Third consulship of Marius
Saturninus secures land for Marius’s veterans
Mallius and Caepio exiled
Lucullus defeats slave army in Sicily 102 Fourth consulship of Marius
Lucullus demobilizes legions in Sicily
Cimbri, Teutones, and Ambrones migrate south
