CLASSCIV POLITICS Timeline 80-43 BC

133 BC

Popularis Tiberius Gracchus becomes tribune, attempts to enforce popular agrarian reform law transferring Roman land owned by wealthy landowners to poorer citizens, is brutally murdered in ensuing riots

80 BC

Cicero has his first major case defending Sex. Roscius against Sullan proscriptions

79 BC

Sulla resigns dictatorship (previously had Pompey and Crassus as followers: Crassus led a part of his cavalry and Pompey carried out proscriptions as aedelescens carnifex)

78 BC

Sulla dies

77 BC

Caesar conducts first trial, Pompey arrives in Spain and campaigns for over a decade

73-71 BC

Spartacus slave war (crassus defeats spartacus’s army but pompey takes credit)

70

IN VERREM

Pompey and Crassus co-consuls, get rid of sullan reforms: restores tribunal power,