Important Dates in the Roman Republic

509

Tarquin the Arrogant expelled. Republic started

471

Council of the Plebs created

449

Twelve tables set up

390 or 386

Gauls sack Rome

367

Licinian Sextian laws passed

287

5th and last secession of the plebs, Lex Hortensia makes plebiscites apply to all (3rd and last time)

280 - 275

War with Pyrrhus of Epirus

264 - 241

First Punic war

218

Start of the 2nd Punic war

216

Battle of Cannae

215 - 205

First Macedonian war (against Philip V)

203

Hannibal recalled to Carthage

200 - 197

2nd Macedonian war (against Philip V)

196

Flamininus declares the freedom of the greeks

192 - 187

Syrian war (against Antiochus)

171 - 167

3rd Macedonian war (against Perseus)

150 - 148

4th Macedonian war (against Andriscus)

149 - 146

3rd Punic war, Carthage sacked

133

Tiberius Gracchus is tribune

123, 122

Gaius Gracchus is tribune

105

Jugurtha captured by Sulla

102

Marian victory against the Tuetones at Aquae Sextiae

101

Marian victory over the Cimbri at Vercellae

90 - 88

Social war

88

Sulla takes Rome after his command to fight Mithridates was overturned to Marius

86

Marius’ 7th consulship. He dies of natural causes

85

Treaty of Dardanus

82

Sulla captures Rome and makes himself dictator

78

Sulla dies

77 - 72

Pompey in Spain fighting Sertorius

74 - 72

M. Antonius Creticus sent to deal with pirates. Not overly successful. Imperium infinitum

74 - 66

Lucullus fights Mithridates. Successful until mutiny

73 - 71

Spartacus’ revolt

67

Lex Gabinia - Command of pirates to Pompey. Imperium maius

66

Lex Manilia - command of war with Mithridates given to Pompey

60

Unofficial alliance of the first triumvirate (Caesar, Crassus, Pompey)

53

Starts with no consul due to unrest the previous year

52

Revolt of the united Gallic tribes under Vercingetorix. Pompey made sole consul in Rome

49

Caesar invades and takes Rome

48

Caesar is consul, he defeats Pompey at the battle of Pharsalus

46

Battle of Thapsus, Caesar defeats senatorial forces

45

Caesar fights sons of Pompey in Spain, Triumph over fellow Romans

44

Caesar named dictator for life. Then assassinated

43

Octavian marches on Rome and becomes consul after lifting Antony’s siege of the assassins of Caesar. Assassins persecuted. Triumvirate forms

34

Donations of Alexandria

32

Coup of Octavian

31

Battle of Actium

31 - 23

Octavian is consul

27

Octavian declares the restoration of the republic, gains title Augustus