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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.

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.]