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<p>This is a <b> timeline of Roman history</b>, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Kingdom" title="Roman Kingdom">Roman Kingdom</a> and <a href="/wiki/Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Republic</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empires</a>. To read about the background of these events, see <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome">Ancient Rome</a> and <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Byzantine_Empire" title="History of the Byzantine Empire">History of the Byzantine Empire</a>.
</p><p>Following tradition, this timeline marks the deposition of <a href="/wiki/Romulus_Augustulus" title="Romulus Augustulus">Romulus Augustulus</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople" title="Fall of Constantinople">Fall of Constantinople</a> as the end of Rome in the west and east, respectively. See <a href="/wiki/Third_Rome" class="mw-redirect" title="Third Rome">Third Rome</a> for a discussion of claimants to the succession of Rome.
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<div class="toc"> <b>Millennia</b>: <a href="#1st_millennium_BC">1st <small>BC</small></a> <b>·</b> <a href="#1st_millennium">1st–2nd</a></div>
<div class="toc"> <b>Centuries</b>: <a href="#7th_century_BC">7th <small>BC</small></a> <b>·</b> <a href="#6th_century_BC">6th <small>BC</small></a> <b>·</b> <a href="#5th_century_BC">5th <small>BC</small></a> <b>·</b> <a href="#4th_century_BC">4th <small>BC</small></a> <b>·</b> <a href="#3rd_century_BC">3rd <small>BC</small></a> <b>·</b> <a href="#2nd_century_BC">2nd <small>BC</small></a> <b>·</b> <a href="#1st_century_BC">1st <small>BC</small></a> <b>·</b> <a href="#1st_century">1st</a> <b>·</b> <a href="#2nd_century">2nd</a> <b>·</b> <a href="#3rd_century">3rd</a> <b>·</b> <a href="#4th_century">4th</a> <b>·</b> <a href="#5th_century">5th</a> <b>·</b> <a href="#6th_century">6th</a> <b>·</b> <a href="#7th_century">7th</a> <b>·</b> <a href="#8th_century">8th</a> <b>·</b> <a href="#9th_century">9th</a> <b>·</b> <a href="#10th_century">10th</a> <b>·</b> <a href="#11th_century">11th</a> <b>·</b> <a href="#12th_century">12th</a> <b>·</b> <a href="#13th_century">13th</a> <b>·</b> <a href="#14th_century">14th</a> <b>·</b> <a href="#15th_century">15th</a></div>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="8th_and_7th_centuries_BC">8th and 7th centuries BC</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Roman_history&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: 8th and 7th centuries BC"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div>
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<td><a href="/wiki/754_BC" title="754 BC">754 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Alba_Longa" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Alba Longa">Battle of Alba Longa</a>. King of <a href="/wiki/Alba_Longa" title="Alba Longa">Alba Longa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Amulius" title="Amulius">Amulius</a>, who had previously usurped power is defeated and killed along with his sons by his Brother <a href="/wiki/Numitor" title="Numitor">Numitor</a>, and great-nephew <a href="/wiki/Romulus" title="Romulus">Romulus</a>, who led a sizable warband.
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<td><a href="/wiki/753_BC" title="753 BC">753 <small>BC</small></a></td>
<td>21 April</td>
<td><a href="/wiki/Founding_of_Rome" title="Founding of Rome">Rome was founded</a>. According to Roman legend, <a href="/wiki/Romulus" title="Romulus">Romulus</a> was the founder and first <a href="/wiki/King_of_Rome" title="King of Rome">King of Rome</a>, establishing the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Kingdom" title="Roman Kingdom">Roman Kingdom</a>.
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<td rowspan="2" valign="top"><a href="/wiki/752_BC" title="752 BC">752 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><a href="/wiki/Romulus" title="Romulus">Romulus</a>, first king of <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome">Rome</a>, celebrates the first <a href="/wiki/Roman_triumph" title="Roman triumph">Roman triumph</a> after his victory over the <a href="/wiki/Caenina_(Town)" class="mw-redirect" title="Caenina (Town)">Caeninenses</a>, following the <a href="/wiki/Rape_of_the_Sabine_Women" title="Rape of the Sabine Women">Rape of the Sabine Women</a>. He celebrates a further triumph later in the year over the <a href="/wiki/Antemnae" title="Antemnae">Antemnates</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Livy-AUC-1-10_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Livy-AUC-1-10-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>Rome's first <a href="/wiki/Colonia_(Roman)" title="Colonia (Roman)">colonies</a> were established.<sup id="cite_ref-Livy-AUC-1-10_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Livy-AUC-1-10-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<td><a href="/wiki/715_BC" title="715 BC">715 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><a href="/wiki/Numa_Pompilius" title="Numa Pompilius">Numa Pompilius</a> became the second King of Rome.
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<td><a href="/wiki/673_BC" title="673 BC">673 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><a href="/wiki/Tullus_Hostilius" title="Tullus Hostilius">Tullus Hostilius</a> became the third King of Rome.
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<td><a href="/wiki/667_BC" title="667 BC">667 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><a href="/wiki/Byzantium" title="Byzantium">Byzantium</a> was founded by <a href="/wiki/Megara" title="Megara">Megarian</a> colonists.
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<td rowspan="2" valign="top"><a href="/wiki/642_BC" title="642 BC">642 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><a href="/wiki/Tullus_Hostilius" title="Tullus Hostilius">Tullus Hostilius</a> died.
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<td>The Curiate Assembly, one of the <a href="/wiki/Legislative_Assemblies_of_the_Roman_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Legislative Assemblies of the Roman Kingdom">legislative assemblies of the Roman Kingdom</a>, elected <a href="/wiki/Ancus_Marcius" title="Ancus Marcius">Ancus Marcius</a> King of Rome.
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<td><a href="/wiki/617_BC" class="mw-redirect" title="617 BC">617 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><a href="/wiki/Ancus_Marcius" title="Ancus Marcius">Ancus Marcius</a> died.
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<td><a href="/wiki/616_BC" title="616 BC">616 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td>The Curiate Assembly elected <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Tarquinius_Priscus" title="Lucius Tarquinius Priscus">Lucius Tarquinius Priscus</a> King of Rome.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="6th_century_BC">6th century BC</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Roman_history&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: 6th century BC"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div>
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<td><a href="/wiki/575_BC" title="575 BC">575 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td>The <a href="/wiki/Senate_of_the_Roman_Kingdom" title="Senate of the Roman Kingdom">Senate</a> accepted the <a href="/wiki/Regent" title="Regent">regent</a> <a href="/wiki/Servius_Tullius" title="Servius Tullius">Servius Tullius</a> as <a href="/wiki/King_of_Rome" title="King of Rome">King</a> of Rome.
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<td><a href="/wiki/535_BC" title="535 BC">535 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><a href="/wiki/Servius_Tullius" title="Servius Tullius">Servius Tullius</a> was murdered by his daughter <a href="/wiki/Tullia_Minor" title="Tullia Minor">Tullia Minor</a> and her husband <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Tarquinius_Superbus" title="Lucius Tarquinius Superbus">Lucius Tarquinius Superbus</a>, who declared himself King of Rome on the steps of the <i><a href="/wiki/Curia_Hostilia" title="Curia Hostilia">Curia Hostilia</a></i>.
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<td rowspan="5" valign="top"><a href="/wiki/509_BC" title="509 BC">509 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td>The <a href="/wiki/Patrician_(ancient_Rome)" title="Patrician (ancient Rome)">patrician</a> <a href="/wiki/Lucretia" title="Lucretia">Lucretia</a> was raped by <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Tarquinius_Superbus" title="Lucius Tarquinius Superbus">Lucius Tarquinius Superbus'</a> son <a href="/wiki/Sextus_Tarquinius" title="Sextus Tarquinius">Sextus Tarquinius</a>.
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Overthrow_of_the_Roman_monarchy" title="Overthrow of the Roman monarchy">Overthrow of the Roman monarchy</a></i>: Following <a href="/wiki/Lucretia" title="Lucretia">Lucretia's</a> suicide, <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Junius_Brutus" title="Lucius Junius Brutus">Lucius Junius Brutus</a> called the Curiate Assembly, one of the <a href="/wiki/Legislative_Assemblies_of_the_Roman_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Legislative Assemblies of the Roman Kingdom">legislative assemblies of the Roman Kingdom</a>. The latter agreed to the overthrow and expulsion of <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Tarquinius_Superbus" title="Lucius Tarquinius Superbus">Lucius Tarquinius Superbus</a> and to a provisional constitution under which two <a href="/wiki/Roman_consul" title="Roman consul">consuls</a> acted as a joint <a href="/wiki/Executive_(government)" title="Executive (government)">executive</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Curiate_Assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="Curiate Assembly">Curiate Assembly</a> held legislative power, and swore never again to let a <a href="/wiki/King_of_Rome" title="King of Rome">King</a> rule Rome. It further elected Lucius Junius Brutus and <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Tarquinius_Collatinus" title="Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus">Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus</a>, Lucretia's husband, as consuls.
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Silva_Arsia" title="Battle of Silva Arsia">Battle of Silva Arsia</a></i>: <a href="/wiki/Tarquinia" title="Tarquinia">Tarquinian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Veii" title="Veii">Veientine</a> forces loyal to <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Tarquinius_Superbus" title="Lucius Tarquinius Superbus">Lucius Tarquinius Superbus</a> were defeated in the <a href="/wiki/Silva_Arsia" title="Silva Arsia">Silva Arsia</a> by a Roman army. <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Junius_Brutus" title="Lucius Junius Brutus">Lucius Junius Brutus</a> was killed. <a href="/wiki/Publius_Valerius_Publicola" class="mw-redirect" title="Publius Valerius Publicola">Publius Valerius Publicola</a>, returning to Rome with the spoils of war, was awarded the first <a href="/wiki/Roman_Triumph" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Triumph">Roman Triumph</a> on March 1.
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<td>The <a href="/wiki/Roman_consul" title="Roman consul">consul</a> <a href="/wiki/Publius_Valerius_Publicola" class="mw-redirect" title="Publius Valerius Publicola">Publius Valerius Publicola</a> promulgated a number of liberal reforms, including opening the office of consul to all Roman citizens and placing the treasury under the administration of appointed <a href="/wiki/Quaestor" title="Quaestor">quaestors</a>.
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<td>13 September</td>
<td>The <a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Jupiter_Optimus_Maximus" title="Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus">Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus</a> was ceremonially dedicated to the <a href="/wiki/Capitoline_Triad" title="Capitoline Triad">Capitoline Triad</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/508_BC" title="508 BC">508 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Roman%E2%80%93Etruscan_Wars" title="Roman–Etruscan Wars">Roman–Etruscan Wars</a></i>: A <a href="/wiki/Clusium" title="Clusium">Clusian</a> army failed to conquer <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/504_BC" title="504 BC">504 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Roman%E2%80%93Sabine_wars" title="Roman–Sabine wars">Roman–Sabine wars</a></i>: Roman victory over the sabines in the battle of 504 BC by consul Publicus.
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<td><a href="/wiki/501_BC" title="501 BC">501 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td>In the face of a potential <a href="/wiki/Sabines" title="Sabines">Sabine</a> invasion, the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Senate" title="Roman Senate">Senate</a> passed a <i><a href="/wiki/Senatus_consultum" title="Senatus consultum">senatus consultum</a></i> authorizing the <a href="/wiki/Roman_consul" title="Roman consul">consuls</a> to appoint a <a href="/wiki/Roman_dictator" title="Roman dictator">dictator</a>, a magistrate who held absolute power during a national emergency. The dictator would in turn appoint the <i><a href="/wiki/Magister_equitum" title="Magister equitum">Magister equitum</a></i>, the commander of the <a href="/wiki/Roman_cavalry" title="Roman cavalry">cavalry</a>. The consuls <a href="/wiki/Titus_Larcius" title="Titus Larcius">Titus Larcius</a> and <a href="/wiki/Postumus_Cominius_Auruncus" title="Postumus Cominius Auruncus">Postumus Cominius Auruncus</a> selected the former as dictator.
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<td><a href="/wiki/496_BC" title="496 BC">496 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Lake_Regillus" title="Battle of Lake Regillus">Battle of Lake Regillus</a></i>: <a href="/wiki/Latin_League" title="Latin League">Latin League</a> invasion near modern <a href="/wiki/Frascati" title="Frascati">Frascati</a> which sought to reinstall <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Tarquinius_Superbus" title="Lucius Tarquinius Superbus">Lucius Tarquinius Superbus</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/494_BC" title="494 BC">494 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><a href="/wiki/First_secessio_plebis" title="First secessio plebis"><i>First</i> secessio plebis</a>:
<p><a href="/wiki/Lucius_Sicinius_Vellutus" title="Lucius Sicinius Vellutus">Lucius Sicinius Vellutus</a>, the <i><a href="/wiki/Plebs" class="mw-redirect" title="Plebs">plebs</a></i> abandoned <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a> for the nearby <a href="/wiki/Monte_Sacro" class="mw-redirect" title="Monte Sacro">Monte Sacro</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/471_BC" title="471 BC">471 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td>After a law allowing organization of the <i><a href="/wiki/Plebs" class="mw-redirect" title="Plebs">plebs</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Roman_tribe" title="Roman tribe">tribe</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Plebeian_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Plebeian Council">Plebeian Council</a> was reorganized by tribes rather than <a href="/wiki/Curia" title="Curia">curiae</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/459_BC" title="459 BC">459 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td>Under popular pressure, the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Senate" title="Roman Senate">Senate</a> increased the <a href="/wiki/Tribune_of_the_Plebs" class="mw-redirect" title="Tribune of the Plebs">tribunes of the <i>plebs</i></a> from two to ten.
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<td><a href="/wiki/458_BC" title="458 BC">458 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td>During the first dictatorship of <a href="/wiki/Cincinnatus" class="mw-redirect" title="Cincinnatus">Cincinnatus</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Aequi" title="Aequi">Aequians</a> staged an offensive, breaking a truce. Cincinnatus defeated the Aquians at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mount_Algidus" title="Battle of Mount Algidus">Battle of Mount Algidus</a> and after a triumph, returned to his farm after sixteen days.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<td rowspan="2" valign="top"><a href="/wiki/449_BC" title="449 BC">449 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td>Resolutions of the <a href="/wiki/Plebeian_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Plebeian Council">Plebeian Council</a> were given the full force of law subject to <a href="/wiki/Roman_Senate" title="Roman Senate">Senate</a> veto.
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<td>The second of two <a href="/wiki/Decemviri" title="Decemviri">decemviri</a>, specially-elected ten man commissions, issued the last of the <a href="/wiki/Twelve_Tables" title="Twelve Tables">Twelve Tables</a>, the fundamental laws of the Republic.
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<td><a href="/wiki/447_BC" title="447 BC">447 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td>The <a href="/wiki/Tribal_Assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="Tribal Assembly">Tribal Assembly</a> was established, and granted the right to elect <a href="/wiki/Quaestor" title="Quaestor">quaestors</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/445_BC" title="445 BC">445 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Lex_Canuleia" title="Lex Canuleia">Lex Canuleia</a>:</i> Marriage between <a href="/wiki/Patrician_(ancient_Rome)" title="Patrician (ancient Rome)">patricians</a> and <a href="/wiki/Plebs" class="mw-redirect" title="Plebs">plebeians</a> was legalized.
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<td rowspan="2" valign="top"><a href="/wiki/443_BC" title="443 BC">443 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td>The offices of the <i><a href="/wiki/Tribuni_militum_consulari_potestate" class="mw-redirect" title="Tribuni militum consulari potestate">Tribuni militum consulari potestate</a></i> were established. A <a href="/wiki/Collegium_(ancient_Rome)" title="Collegium (ancient Rome)">collegium</a> of three <a href="/wiki/Patrician_(ancient_Rome)" title="Patrician (ancient Rome)">patrician</a> or <a href="/wiki/Plebs" class="mw-redirect" title="Plebs">plebeian</a> <a href="/wiki/Tribune" title="Tribune">tribunes</a>, one each from specific <a href="/wiki/Roman_tribe" title="Roman tribe">Roman tribes</a> (the Titienses, the Ramnenses, and the Luceres), would hold the power of the <a href="/wiki/Roman_consul" title="Roman consul">consuls</a> from year to year, subject to the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Senate" title="Roman Senate">Senate</a>.
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<td>The office of the <a href="/wiki/Roman_censor" title="Roman censor">censor</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Patrician_(ancient_Rome)" title="Patrician (ancient Rome)">patrician</a> magistrate responsible for conducting the <a href="/wiki/Census" title="Census">census</a> in years without a <a href="/wiki/Roman_consul" title="Roman consul">consul</a>, was established.
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<td><a href="/wiki/439_BC" title="439 BC">439 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td>Cincinnatus was called upon to accept a second dictatorship by the patricians to prevent <a href="/wiki/Spurius_Maelius" title="Spurius Maelius">Spurius Maelius</a> from seizing power; the patricians suspected Spurius of using wheat to purchase the support of the plebeians, to set himself up as a king. <a href="/wiki/Gaius_Servilius_Ahala" title="Gaius Servilius Ahala">Gaius Servilius Ahala</a> was appointed <a href="/wiki/Magister_equitum" title="Magister equitum">magister equitum</a> in order to stop Maelius; following an attack by Maelius, Ahala slew him. Cincinnatus again resigned his dictatorship and returned to his farm after 21 days.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<td><a href="/wiki/435_BC" title="435 BC">435 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><a href="/wiki/Capture_of_Fidenae_(435_BC)" title="Capture of Fidenae (435 BC)">Fidenae</a>, an important trade post on the Tiber, was captured from the Veii.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<td><a href="/wiki/408_BC" title="408 BC">408 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td>The <i><a href="/wiki/Tribuni_militum_consulari_potestate" class="mw-redirect" title="Tribuni militum consulari potestate">Tribuni militum consulari potestate</a></i> held office.
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<td rowspan="2" valign="top"><a href="/wiki/396_BC" title="396 BC">396 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Veii" title="Battle of Veii">Battle of Veii</a></i>: Roman forces led by the <a href="/wiki/Roman_dictator" title="Roman dictator">dictator</a> <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Furius_Camillus" title="Marcus Furius Camillus">Marcus Furius Camillus</a> conquered <a href="/wiki/Veii" title="Veii">Veii</a>.
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<td>Roman soldiers first earned a salary ("salary" from Latin for "salt").
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<td><a href="/wiki/394_BC" title="394 BC">394 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td>The <a href="/wiki/Roman_consul" title="Roman consul">consuls</a> held office.
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<td><a href="/wiki/391_BC" title="391 BC">391 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td>The <i><a href="/wiki/Tribuni_militum_consulari_potestate" class="mw-redirect" title="Tribuni militum consulari potestate">Tribuni militum consulari potestate</a></i> held office.
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<td rowspan="2" valign="top"><a href="/wiki/390_BC" title="390 BC">390 <small>BC</small></a></td>
<td>18 July</td>
<td><i><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Allia" title="Battle of the Allia">Battle of the Allia</a></i>: The <a href="/wiki/Senones" title="Senones">Senones</a> routed a Roman force at the confluence of the rivers <a href="/wiki/Allia" title="Allia">Allia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tiber" title="Tiber">Tiber</a>.
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<td>The <a href="/wiki/Senones" title="Senones">Senones</a> sacked <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a>. Among other artifacts, books were destroyed. The history of Rome up to this point had to be mostly reconstructed and is sometimes unreliable or mythological.
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<td><a href="/wiki/367_BC" title="367 BC">367 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td>The <a href="/wiki/Roman_consul" title="Roman consul">consulship</a> was reintroduced.
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<td rowspan="2" valign="top"><a href="/wiki/366_BC" title="366 BC">366 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><a href="/wiki/Lucius_Sextius" class="mw-redirect" title="Lucius Sextius">Lucius Sextius</a> was elected the first <a href="/wiki/Plebs" class="mw-redirect" title="Plebs">plebeian</a> <a href="/wiki/Roman_consul" title="Roman consul">consul</a>.
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<td>The office of <i><a href="/wiki/Praetor" title="Praetor">Praetor</a></i>, which took the <a href="/wiki/Judiciary" title="Judiciary">judiciary</a> responsibilities of the <a href="/wiki/Roman_consul" title="Roman consul">consul</a> and could be held only by a <a href="/wiki/Patrician_(ancient_Rome)" title="Patrician (ancient Rome)">patrician</a>, was established.
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<td rowspan="2" valign="top"><a href="/wiki/351_BC" title="351 BC">351 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td>The first <a href="/wiki/Plebs" class="mw-redirect" title="Plebs">plebeian</a> <a href="/wiki/Roman_dictator" title="Roman dictator">dictator</a> was elected.
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<td>The first <a href="/wiki/Plebs" class="mw-redirect" title="Plebs">plebeian</a> <a href="/wiki/Roman_censor" title="Roman censor">censor</a> was elected.
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<td rowspan="2" valign="top"><a href="/wiki/343_BC" title="343 BC">343 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Samnite_Wars" title="Samnite Wars">Samnite Wars</a></i>: Rome marched against the <a href="/wiki/Samnites" title="Samnites">Samnites</a>, probably after an appeal from the <a href="/wiki/Campanians" title="Campanians">Campanians</a>.
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mount_Gaurus" title="Battle of Mount Gaurus">Battle of Mount Gaurus</a></i>: A <a href="/wiki/Samnites" title="Samnites">Samnite</a> force was routed by a Roman army near <a href="/wiki/Mount_Barbaro" title="Mount Barbaro">Mount Barbaro</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/342_BC" title="342 BC">342 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td>The <i><a href="/wiki/Leges_Genuciae" title="Leges Genuciae">Leges Genuciae</a></i> were passed, banning a person from holding two offices at the same time, or during any ten-year period; charging interest on loans was also banned.
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<td><a href="/wiki/341_BC" title="341 BC">341 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i>Samnite Wars</i>: The <a href="/wiki/Roman_Senate" title="Roman Senate">Senate</a> agreed a peace, following an appeal by the <a href="/wiki/Samnites" title="Samnites">Samnite</a> to a previous treaty of friendship.
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<td><a href="/wiki/340_BC" title="340 BC">340 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Latin_War" title="Latin War">Latin War</a></i>: The <a href="/wiki/Latin_League" title="Latin League">Latin League</a> invaded <a href="/wiki/Samnium" title="Samnium">Samnium</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/339_BC" title="339 BC">339 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td>A law was passed which required the election of at least one <a href="/wiki/Plebs" class="mw-redirect" title="Plebs">plebeian</a> <a href="/wiki/Roman_censor" title="Roman censor">censor</a> every five years.
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<td><a href="/wiki/338_BC" title="338 BC">338 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i>Latin War</i>: Rome defeated the <a href="/wiki/Latin_League" title="Latin League">Latin League</a> armies.
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<td><a href="/wiki/337_BC" title="337 BC">337 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td>The first <a href="/wiki/Plebs" class="mw-redirect" title="Plebs">plebeian</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Praetor" title="Praetor">Praetor</a></i> was elected.
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<td><a href="/wiki/328_BC" title="328 BC">328 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i>Samnite Wars</i>: Rome declared war on the <a href="/wiki/Samnites" title="Samnites">Samnites</a> after their failure to prevent their subjects raiding <a href="/wiki/Fregellae" title="Fregellae">Fregellae</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/321_BC" title="321 BC">321 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Caudine_Forks" title="Battle of the Caudine Forks">Battle of the Caudine Forks</a></i>: After being trapped in a mountain pass near <a href="/wiki/Caudium" title="Caudium">Caudium</a> without a water supply, Roman forces were allowed to retreat by a <a href="/wiki/Samnites" title="Samnites">Samnite</a> army.
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<td><a href="/wiki/315_BC" title="315 BC">315 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Lautulae" title="Battle of Lautulae">Battle of Lautulae</a></i>: A decisive <a href="/wiki/Samnites" title="Samnites">Samnite</a> victory near <a href="/wiki/Terracina" title="Terracina">Terracina</a> split Roman territory in two.
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<td><a href="/wiki/311_BC" title="311 BC">311 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i>Samnite Wars</i>: The <a href="/wiki/Etruscan_civilization" title="Etruscan civilization">Etruscans</a> laid siege to <a href="/wiki/Sutri" title="Sutri">Sutri</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/310_BC" title="310 BC">310 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Lake_Vadimo_(310_BC)" title="Battle of Lake Vadimo (310 BC)">Battle of Lake Vadimo (310 BC)</a></i>: Rome inflicted a substantial military defeat on the <a href="/wiki/Etruscan_civilization" title="Etruscan civilization">Etruscans</a> at <a href="/wiki/Lake_Vadimo" title="Lake Vadimo">Lake Vadimo</a>
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<td><a href="/wiki/308_BC" title="308 BC">308 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i>Samnite Wars</i>: The <a href="/wiki/Umbri" title="Umbri">Umbri</a>, <a href="/wiki/Picentes" title="Picentes">Picentes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Marsi" title="Marsi">Marsi</a> joined the <a href="/wiki/Samnites" title="Samnites">Samnites</a> against Rome.
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<td><a href="/wiki/306_BC" title="306 BC">306 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td>The <a href="/wiki/Hernici" title="Hernici">Hernici</a> declared their independence from Rome.
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<td>Rome conquered the <a href="/wiki/Aequi" title="Aequi">Aequi</a>.
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<td><i>Samnite Wars</i>: The treaty of friendship between the Romans and <a href="/wiki/Samnites" title="Samnites">Samnites</a> was restored.
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<td><a href="/wiki/300_BC" title="300 BC">300 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td>The <i><a href="/wiki/Lex_Ogulnia" title="Lex Ogulnia">Lex Ogulnia</a></i> was passed, allowing <a href="/wiki/Plebs" class="mw-redirect" title="Plebs">plebeians</a> to become priests.
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<td rowspan="2" valign="top"><a href="/wiki/298_BC" title="298 BC">298 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i>Samnite Wars</i>: Rome declared war on the <a href="/wiki/Samnites" title="Samnites">Samnites</a> after an appeal by the <a href="/wiki/Lucani_(ancient_people)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lucani (ancient people)">Lucani</a>.
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<td><i>Samnite Wars</i>: Rome captured the <a href="/wiki/Samnites" title="Samnites">Samnite</a> cities of <a href="/wiki/Bojano" title="Bojano">Bojano</a> and <a href="/wiki/Castel_di_Sangro" title="Castel di Sangro">Castel di Sangro</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/297_BC" title="297 BC">297 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tifernum" title="Battle of Tifernum">Battle of Tifernum</a></i>: A Roman army defeated a numerically superior <a href="/wiki/Samnites" title="Samnites">Samnite</a> force at <a href="/wiki/Citt%C3%A0_di_Castello" title="Città di Castello">Città di Castello</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/295_BC" title="295 BC">295 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sentinum" title="Battle of Sentinum">Battle of Sentinum</a></i>: A Roman army decisively defeated a numerically superior force of <a href="/wiki/Samnites" title="Samnites">Samnites</a>, <a href="/wiki/Etruscan_civilization" title="Etruscan civilization">Etruscans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Umbri" title="Umbri">Umbri</a> and <a href="/wiki/Senones" title="Senones">Senones</a> in coalition at <a href="/wiki/Sentinum" title="Sentinum">Sentinum</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Roman_consul" title="Roman consul">consul</a> <a href="/wiki/Publius_Decius_Mus_(consul_312_BC)" title="Publius Decius Mus (consul 312 BC)">Publius Decius Mus (consul 312 BC)</a> was killed.
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<td><a href="/wiki/294_BC" title="294 BC">294 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i>Samnite Wars</i>: Roman and <a href="/wiki/Samnites" title="Samnites">Samnite</a> forces battled at <a href="/wiki/Lucera" title="Lucera">Lucera</a>.
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<td rowspan="2" valign="top"><a href="/wiki/293_BC" title="293 BC">293 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Aquilonia" title="Battle of Aquilonia">Battle of Aquilonia</a></i>: A Roman army destroyed the majority of <a href="/wiki/Samnites" title="Samnites">Samnite</a> forces, probably in modern <a href="/wiki/Agnone" title="Agnone">Agnone</a>.
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<td>A census counted about 270,000 residents of Rome.
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<td><a href="/wiki/291_BC" title="291 BC">291 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i>Samnite Wars</i>: Rome conquered and colonized the <a href="/wiki/Samnites" title="Samnites">Samnite</a> city of <a href="/wiki/Venosa" title="Venosa">Venosa</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/290_BC" title="290 BC">290 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i>Samnite Wars</i>: The last effective <a href="/wiki/Samnites" title="Samnites">Samnite</a> resistance was eliminated.
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Conflict_of_the_Orders" title="Conflict of the Orders">Conflict of the Orders</a></i>: A <i><a href="/wiki/Secessio_plebis" title="Secessio plebis">secessio plebis</a></i> took place.
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<td><i>Conflict of the Orders</i>: The <i><a href="/wiki/Lex_Hortensia" title="Lex Hortensia">Lex Hortensia</a></i> was passed, made resolutions of the <a href="/wiki/Plebeian_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Plebeian Council">Plebeian Council</a> (<a href="/wiki/Plebiscites" class="mw-redirect" title="Plebiscites">plebiscites</a>) binding on all Romans, they formally only applied to plebeians.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<td><a href="/wiki/283_BC" title="283 BC">283 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Lake_Vadimo_(283_BC)" title="Battle of Lake Vadimo (283 BC)">Battle of Lake Vadimo (283 BC)</a></i>: A Roman army defeated a combined force of <a href="/wiki/Etruscan_civilization" title="Etruscan civilization">Etruscans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Boii" title="Boii">Boii</a> and <a href="/wiki/Senones" title="Senones">Senones</a> near <a href="/wiki/Lake_Vadimo" title="Lake Vadimo">Lake Vadimo</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/281_BC" title="281 BC">281 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><a href="/wiki/Taranto" title="Taranto">Taranto</a> appealed to <a href="/wiki/Epirus_(ancient_state)" title="Epirus (ancient state)">Epirus</a> for aid against Rome.
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<td rowspan="2" valign="top"><a href="/wiki/280_BC" title="280 BC">280 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Pyrrhic_War" title="Pyrrhic War">Pyrrhic War</a></i>: An <a href="/wiki/Epirus_(ancient_state)" title="Epirus (ancient state)">Epirote</a> army of some 25,000 landed at <a href="/wiki/Taranto" title="Taranto">Taranto</a>.
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Heraclea" title="Battle of Heraclea">Battle of Heraclea</a></i>: A <a href="/wiki/Magna_Graecia" title="Magna Graecia">Greek</a> coalition force led by the <a href="/wiki/Epirus_(ancient_state)" title="Epirus (ancient state)">Epirote</a> king <a href="/wiki/Pyrrhus_of_Epirus" title="Pyrrhus of Epirus">Pyrrhus of Epirus</a> defeated a Roman army after their deployment of war elephants at <a href="/wiki/Heraclea_Lucania" title="Heraclea Lucania">Heraclea Lucania</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/279_BC" title="279 BC">279 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Asculum" title="Battle of Asculum">Battle of Asculum</a></i>: A <a href="/wiki/Magna_Graecia" title="Magna Graecia">Greek</a> force led by the <a href="/wiki/Epirus_(ancient_state)" title="Epirus (ancient state)">Epirote</a> king <a href="/wiki/Pyrrhus_of_Epirus" title="Pyrrhus of Epirus">Pyrrhus</a> defeated a Roman army at modern <a href="/wiki/Ascoli_Satriano" title="Ascoli Satriano">Ascoli Satriano</a>, despite suffering heavy losses.
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<td><a href="/wiki/275_BC" title="275 BC">275 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Beneventum_(275_BC)" title="Battle of Beneventum (275 BC)">Battle of Beneventum (275 BC)</a></i>: Roman and <a href="/wiki/Epirus_(ancient_state)" title="Epirus (ancient state)">Epirote</a> armies met in a bloody battle at <a href="/wiki/Benevento" title="Benevento">Benevento</a>.
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<td rowspan="2" valign="top"><a href="/wiki/272_BC" title="272 BC">272 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i>Pyrrhic War</i>: <a href="/wiki/Pyrrhus_of_Epirus" title="Pyrrhus of Epirus">Pyrrhus</a> withdrew with his army to <a href="/wiki/Epirus" title="Epirus">Epirus</a>.
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<td><i>Pyrrhic War</i>: <a href="/wiki/Taranto" title="Taranto">Taranto</a> surrendered to Rome.
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<td><a href="/wiki/267_BC" title="267 BC">267 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td>The number of <a href="/wiki/Quaestor" title="Quaestor">quaestors</a> was raised from four to ten.
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<td><a href="/wiki/264_BC" title="264 BC">264 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Messana" title="Battle of Messana">Battle of Messana</a></i>: A Roman force defeated a <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Carthage" title="Ancient Carthage">Carthaginian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Syracuse,_Sicily" title="Syracuse, Sicily">Siracusani</a> garrison at <a href="/wiki/Messina" title="Messina">Messina</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/242_BC" title="242 BC">242 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td>The office of the <i>praetor qui inter peregrinos ius dicit</i>, a <i><a href="/wiki/Praetor" title="Praetor">Praetor</a></i> with jurisdiction over foreigners, was created.
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<td><a href="/wiki/241_BC" title="241 BC">241 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/First_Punic_War" title="First Punic War">First Punic War</a></i>: <a href="/wiki/Sicily" title="Sicily">Sicily</a> was organized as the <a href="/wiki/Roman_province" title="Roman province">province</a> of <a href="/wiki/Sicilia_(Roman_province)" title="Sicilia (Roman province)">Sicilia</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/238_BC" title="238 BC">238 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Mercenary_War" title="Mercenary War">Mercenary War</a></i>: <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Carthage" title="Ancient Carthage">Carthage</a> surrendered its claims on <a href="/wiki/Sardinia" title="Sardinia">Sardinia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Corsica" title="Corsica">Corsica</a> to Rome.
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<td><a href="/wiki/229_BC" title="229 BC">229 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Illyrian_Wars" class="mw-redirect" title="Illyrian Wars">Illyrian Wars</a></i>: Rome invaded the territory of the <a href="/wiki/Ardiaei" title="Ardiaei">Ardiaei</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/228_BC" title="228 BC">228 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i>Illyrian Wars</i>: The <a href="/wiki/Ardiaei" title="Ardiaei">Ardiaei</a> surrendered some territory, including strategically significant ports, to Rome, ending the war.
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<td><a href="/wiki/225_BC" title="225 BC">225 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Telamon" title="Battle of Telamon">Battle of Telamon</a></i>: A Roman army decisively defeated a <a href="/wiki/Gauls" title="Gauls">Gallic</a> invasion near modern <a href="/wiki/Talamone" title="Talamone">Talamone</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Roman_consul" title="Roman consul">consul</a> <a href="/wiki/Gaius_Atilius_Regulus_(consul_225_BC)" title="Gaius Atilius Regulus (consul 225 BC)">Gaius Atilius Regulus</a> was killed.
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<td><a href="/wiki/219_BC" title="219 BC">219 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i>Illyrian Wars</i>: Rome invaded <a href="/wiki/Hvar" title="Hvar">Hvar</a>.
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<td rowspan="2" valign="top"><a href="/wiki/218_BC" title="218 BC">218 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Second_Punic_War" title="Second Punic War">Second Punic War</a></i>: A <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Carthage" title="Ancient Carthage">Carthaginian</a> army departed <a href="/wiki/Cartagena,_Spain" title="Cartagena, Spain">Cartagena</a>.
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<td><i>Illyrian Wars</i>: <a href="/wiki/Demetrius_of_Pharos" title="Demetrius of Pharos">Demetrius of Pharos</a> fled to <a href="/wiki/Macedonia_(ancient_kingdom)" title="Macedonia (ancient kingdom)">Macedonia</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/216_BC" title="216 BC">216 <small>BC</small></a></td>
<td>2 August</td>
<td><i><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cannae" title="Battle of Cannae">Battle of Cannae</a></i>: The <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Carthage" title="Ancient Carthage">Carthaginian</a> <a href="/wiki/General_officer" title="General officer">general</a> <a href="/wiki/Hannibal" title="Hannibal">Hannibal</a> decisively defeated a numerically superior Roman force at <a href="/wiki/Cannae" title="Cannae">Cannae</a>.
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<td rowspan="2" valign="top"><a href="/wiki/214_BC" title="214 BC">214 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/First_Macedonian_War" title="First Macedonian War">First Macedonian War</a></i>: A <a href="/wiki/Macedonia_(ancient_kingdom)" title="Macedonia (ancient kingdom)">Macedonian</a> fleet captured <a href="/wiki/Oricum" title="Oricum">Oricum</a>.
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Syracuse_(214%E2%80%93212_BC)" class="mw-redirect" title="Siege of Syracuse (214–212 BC)">Siege of Syracuse (214–212 BC)</a></i>: Rome laid siege to <a href="/wiki/Syracuse,_Sicily" title="Syracuse, Sicily">Syracuse</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/212_BC" title="212 BC">212 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i>Siege of Syracuse (214–212 BC)</i>: Roman forces breached the inner citadel of <a href="/wiki/Syracuse,_Sicily" title="Syracuse, Sicily">Syracuse</a> and slaughtered its inhabitants.
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<td><a href="/wiki/205_BC" title="205 BC">205 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i>First Macedonian War</i>: Rome and <a href="/wiki/Macedonia_(ancient_kingdom)" title="Macedonia (ancient kingdom)">Macedonia</a> signed the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Phoenice" title="Treaty of Phoenice">Treaty of Phoenice</a>, according to which Macedonia renounced its alliance with <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Carthage" title="Ancient Carthage">Carthage</a> in exchange for Roman recognition of its gains in <a href="/wiki/Illyria" title="Illyria">Illyria</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/204_BC" title="204 BC">204 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i>Second Punic War</i>: The <a href="/wiki/Roman_consul" title="Roman consul">consul</a> <a href="/wiki/Scipio_Africanus" title="Scipio Africanus">Scipio Africanus</a> landed an invasion fleet at <a href="/wiki/Utica,_Tunisia" title="Utica, Tunisia">Utica</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/202_BC" title="202 BC">202 <small>BC</small></a></td>
<td>19 October</td>
<td><i><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Zama" title="Battle of Zama">Battle of Zama</a></i>: A Roman army decisively defeated <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Carthage" title="Ancient Carthage">Carthage</a>, probably near modern <a href="/wiki/Sakiet_Sidi_Youssef" title="Sakiet Sidi Youssef">Sakiet Sidi Youssef</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/201_BC" title="201 BC">201 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i>Second Punic War</i>: <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Carthage" title="Ancient Carthage">Carthage</a> accepted Roman conditions for peace, including disarmament, a war indemnity of ten thousand talents, and the cession of <a href="/wiki/Carthaginian_Iberia" title="Carthaginian Iberia">Iberia</a>, ending the war.
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<td><a href="/wiki/200_BC" title="200 BC">200 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Second_Macedonian_War" title="Second Macedonian War">Second Macedonian War</a></i>: A Roman fleet arrived in <a href="/wiki/Illyria" title="Illyria">Illyria</a> to relieve a <a href="/wiki/Macedonia_(ancient_kingdom)" title="Macedonia (ancient kingdom)">Macedonian</a> siege of <a href="/wiki/Abydos_(Hellespont)" title="Abydos (Hellespont)">Abydos</a>.
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<td rowspan="3" valign="top"><a href="/wiki/197_BC" title="197 BC">197 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td>The <a href="/wiki/Roman_province" title="Roman province">provinces</a> of <a href="/wiki/Hispania_Ulterior" title="Hispania Ulterior">Hispania Ulterior</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hispania_Citerior" title="Hispania Citerior">Hispania Citerior</a> were organized.
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<td>The number of <a href="/wiki/Quaestor" title="Quaestor">quaestors</a> was increased to twelve.
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<td>The number of <i><a href="/wiki/Praetor" title="Praetor">Praetors</a></i> was increased to six.
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<td><a href="/wiki/196_BC" title="196 BC">196 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i>Second Macedonian War</i>: <a href="/wiki/Macedonia_(ancient_kingdom)" title="Macedonia (ancient kingdom)">Macedonia</a> surrendered its conquests in Greece and agreed to pay a war indemnity, ending the war.
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<td><a href="/wiki/192_BC" title="192 BC">192 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Roman%E2%80%93Seleucid_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman–Seleucid War">Roman–Seleucid War</a></i>: The <a href="/wiki/Seleucid_Empire" title="Seleucid Empire">Seleucid Empire</a> invaded Greece.
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<td><a href="/wiki/188_BC" title="188 BC">188 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i>Roman–Seleucid War</i>: The <a href="/wiki/Seleucid_Empire" title="Seleucid Empire">Seleucid Empire</a> signed the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Apamea" title="Treaty of Apamea">Treaty of Apamea</a>, under which it surrendered all territory west of the <a href="/wiki/Taurus_Mountains" title="Taurus Mountains">Taurus Mountains</a> to the Roman <a href="/wiki/Client_state" title="Client state">clients</a> Rhodes and <a href="/wiki/Attalid_dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Attalid dynasty">Pergamon</a> and agreed to disarm its navy and pay a war indemnity of fifteen thousand talents of silver to Rome.
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<td><a href="/wiki/180_BC" title="180 BC">180 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td>The <i><a href="/wiki/Lex_Villia_annalis" class="mw-redirect" title="Lex Villia annalis">Lex Villia annalis</a></i>, which established minimum ages for high office and required a minimum of two years in private life between offices, was passed.
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<td><a href="/wiki/172_BC" title="172 BC">172 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Third_Macedonian_War" title="Third Macedonian War">Third Macedonian War</a></i>: Rome declared war on <a href="/wiki/Macedonia_(ancient_kingdom)" title="Macedonia (ancient kingdom)">Macedonia</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/167_BC" title="167 BC">167 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i>Third Macedonian War</i>: The <a href="/wiki/Macedonia_(ancient_kingdom)" title="Macedonia (ancient kingdom)">Macedonian</a> <a href="/wiki/King" title="King">king</a> <a href="/wiki/Perseus_of_Macedon" title="Perseus of Macedon">Perseus of Macedon</a> was captured. Macedonia was divided into four districts subject to Rome.
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<td><a href="/wiki/155_BC" title="155 BC">155 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Lusitanian_War" title="Lusitanian War">Lusitanian War</a></i>: The <a href="/wiki/Lusitanians" title="Lusitanians">Lusitanians</a> of <a href="/wiki/Hispania_Ulterior" title="Hispania Ulterior">Hispania Ulterior</a> rebelled against Rome.
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<td><a href="/wiki/150_BC" title="150 BC">150 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Fourth_Macedonian_War" title="Fourth Macedonian War">Fourth Macedonian War</a></i>: An <a href="/wiki/Andriscus" title="Andriscus">Andriscus</a> rebelled against Rome, claiming to be <a href="/wiki/Perseus_of_Macedon" title="Perseus of Macedon">Perseus's</a> son and the rightful <a href="/wiki/King" title="King">king</a> of <a href="/wiki/Macedonia_(ancient_kingdom)" title="Macedonia (ancient kingdom)">Macedonia</a>.
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<td rowspan="2" valign="top"><a href="/wiki/149_BC" title="149 BC">149 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Third_Punic_War" title="Third Punic War">Third Punic War</a></i>: Rome declared war on <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Carthage" title="Ancient Carthage">Carthage</a>.
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<td>The <i><a href="/wiki/Lex_Calpurnia" class="mw-redirect" title="Lex Calpurnia">Lex Calpurnia</a></i> was passed, establishing a <i><a href="/wiki/Praetor" title="Praetor">Praetor</a></i>-led court to hear appeals against extortionate taxes levied by governors in the <a href="/wiki/Roman_province" title="Roman province">provinces</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/148_BC" title="148 BC">148 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i>Fourth Macedonian War</i>: <a href="/wiki/Andriscus" title="Andriscus">Andriscus</a> was surrendered to Rome to be executed.
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<td rowspan="4" valign="top"><a href="/wiki/146_BC" title="146 BC">146 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i>Third Punic War</i>: Roman forces breached the city of <a href="/wiki/Carthage" title="Carthage">Carthage</a>, burned it, and enslaved its surviving inhabitants.
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Achaean_War" title="Achaean War">Achaean War</a></i>: Roman forces decisively defeated the armies of the <a href="/wiki/Achaean_League" title="Achaean League">Achaean League</a> at <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Corinth_(146_BC)" title="Battle of Corinth (146 BC)">Corinth</a>.
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<td>The <a href="/wiki/Roman_province" title="Roman province">province</a> of <a href="/wiki/Macedonia_(Roman_province)" title="Macedonia (Roman province)">Macedonia</a> was organized.
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<td>The <a href="/wiki/Roman_province" title="Roman province">province</a> of <a href="/wiki/Africa_(Roman_province)" title="Africa (Roman province)">Africa</a> was organized on captured <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Carthage" title="Ancient Carthage">Carthaginian</a> territory.
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<td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/139_BC" title="139 BC">139 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i>Lusitanian War</i>: The <a href="/wiki/Lusitanians" title="Lusitanians">Lusitanian</a> leader <a href="/wiki/Viriatus" class="mw-redirect" title="Viriatus">Viriatus</a> was assassinated by his three <a href="/wiki/Ambassador" title="Ambassador">ambassadors</a> to Rome <a href="/wiki/Audax,_Ditalcus_and_Minurus" title="Audax, Ditalcus and Minurus">Audax, Ditalcus and Minurus</a>.
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Ballot_laws_of_the_Roman_Republic" title="Ballot laws of the Roman Republic">Lex Gabinia tabellaria</a></i>: required a secret ballot in elections of all magistrates.
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<td><a href="/wiki/133_BC" title="133 BC">133 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td>The <a href="/wiki/Tribune_of_the_Plebs" class="mw-redirect" title="Tribune of the Plebs">Tribune of the Plebs</a> <a href="/wiki/Tiberius_Gracchus" title="Tiberius Gracchus">Tiberius Gracchus</a> was beaten to death by a mob of <a href="/wiki/Roman_Senate" title="Roman Senate">senators</a> led by the <i><a href="/wiki/Pontifex_Maximus" class="mw-redirect" title="Pontifex Maximus">Pontifex Maximus</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Publius_Cornelius_Scipio_Nasica_Serapio_(consul_138_BC)" class="mw-redirect" title="Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio (consul 138 BC)">Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio (consul 138 BC)</a>.
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<td rowspan="2" valign="top"><a href="/wiki/121_BC" title="121 BC">121 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td>The <a href="/wiki/Roman_province" title="Roman province">province</a> of <a href="/wiki/Gallia_Narbonensis" title="Gallia Narbonensis">Gallia Narbonensis</a> was organized.
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<td>The first <i><a href="/wiki/Senatus_consultum_ultimum" title="Senatus consultum ultimum">Senatus consultum ultimum</a></i> was passed, granting the <a href="/wiki/Roman_consul" title="Roman consul">consul</a> <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Opimius" title="Lucius Opimius">Lucius Opimius</a> emergency powers to defeat the partisans of <a href="/wiki/Gaius_Gracchus" title="Gaius Gracchus">Gaius Gracchus</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/112_BC" title="112 BC">112 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Jugurthine_War" title="Jugurthine War">Jugurthine War</a></i>: Rome declared war on <a href="/wiki/Numidia" title="Numidia">Numidia</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/107_BC" title="107 BC">107 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><a href="/wiki/Gaius_Marius" title="Gaius Marius">Gaius Marius</a> was elected <a href="/wiki/Roman_consul" title="Roman consul">consul</a>.
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<td rowspan="2" valign="top"><a href="/wiki/106_BC" title="106 BC">106 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><a href="/wiki/Gaius_Marius" title="Gaius Marius">Marius</a> was reelected <a href="/wiki/Roman_consul" title="Roman consul">consul</a>.
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<td><i>Jugurthine War</i>: The <a href="/wiki/Numidia" title="Numidia">Numidian</a> king <a href="/wiki/Jugurtha" title="Jugurtha">Jugurtha</a> was imprisoned in the <a href="/wiki/Mamertine_Prison" title="Mamertine Prison">Mamertine Prison</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/105_BC" title="105 BC">105 <small>BC</small></a></td>
<td>6 October</td>
<td><i><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Arausio" title="Battle of Arausio">Battle of Arausio</a></i>: A coalition of the <a href="/wiki/Cimbri" title="Cimbri">Cimbri</a> and <a href="/wiki/Teutons" title="Teutons">Teutons</a> inflicted a serious defeat on the Roman army at modern <a href="/wiki/Orange,_Vaucluse" title="Orange, Vaucluse">Orange</a>. Some hundred thousand Roman soldiers were killed.
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<td><a href="/wiki/104_BC" title="104 BC">104 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><a href="/wiki/Gaius_Marius" title="Gaius Marius">Marius</a> was elected <a href="/wiki/Roman_consul" title="Roman consul">consul</a> for the first of three years in a row.
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<td><a href="/wiki/102_BC" title="102 BC">102 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Aquae_Sextiae" title="Battle of Aquae Sextiae">Battle of Aquae Sextiae</a></i>: Rome decisively defeated the forces of the <a href="/wiki/Teutons" title="Teutons">Teutons</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ambrones" title="Ambrones">Ambrones</a> and killed some ninety thousand soldiers and civilians.
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<td><a href="/wiki/101_BC" title="101 BC">101 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Vercellae" title="Battle of Vercellae">Battle of Vercellae</a></i>: An invasion of Italy by the <a href="/wiki/Cimbri" title="Cimbri">Cimbri</a> was decisively defeated by a numerically inferior Roman force. Some hundred thousand Cimbri soldiers and civilians were killed along with their king <a href="/wiki/Boiorix" title="Boiorix">Boiorix</a>.
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<td>100 BC
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<td>12-13 July
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<td><a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Julius Caesar</a> was born
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<td rowspan="2" valign="top"><a href="/wiki/100_BC" title="100 BC">100 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><a href="/wiki/Gaius_Marius" title="Gaius Marius">Marius</a> was elected <a href="/wiki/Roman_consul" title="Roman consul">consul</a>.
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<td>10 December</td>
<td>Assassins hired by <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Appuleius_Saturninus" title="Lucius Appuleius Saturninus">Lucius Appuleius Saturninus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gaius_Servilius_Glaucia" title="Gaius Servilius Glaucia">Gaius Servilius Glaucia</a> beat to death <a href="/wiki/Gaius_Memmius_(proconsul_of_Macedonia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaius Memmius (proconsul of Macedonia)">Gaius Memmius</a>, a candidate for the <a href="/wiki/Roman_consul" title="Roman consul">consulship</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/91_BC" title="91 BC">91 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Social_War_(91%E2%80%9387_BC)" title="Social War (91–87 BC)">Social War (91–87 BC)</a></i>: The Roman <a href="/wiki/Client_state" title="Client state">clients</a> in Italy the <a href="/wiki/Marsi" title="Marsi">Marsi</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Paeligni" title="Paeligni">Paeligni</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Vestini" title="Vestini">Vestini</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Marrucini" title="Marrucini">Marrucini</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Picentes" title="Picentes">Picentes</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Frentani" title="Frentani">Frentani</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Hirpini" title="Hirpini">Hirpini</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Iapyges" class="mw-redirect" title="Iapyges">Iapyges</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pompeii" title="Pompeii">Pompeii</a>, <a href="/wiki/Venosa" title="Venosa">Venosa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lucania" title="Lucania">Lucania</a> and <a href="/wiki/Samnium" title="Samnium">Samnium</a> rebelled against Rome.
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<td rowspan="2" valign="top"><a href="/wiki/88_BC" title="88 BC">88 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td>Sulla's march on Rome: The <a href="/wiki/Roman_consul" title="Roman consul">consul</a> <a href="/wiki/Sulla" title="Sulla">Sulla</a> led an army of his partisans across the <a href="/wiki/Pomerium" title="Pomerium">pomerium</a> into <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a>.
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<td><i>Social War (91–89 BC)</i>: The war ended.
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<td><a href="/wiki/87_BC" title="87 BC">87 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/First_Mithridatic_War" title="First Mithridatic War">First Mithridatic War</a></i>: Roman forces landed at <a href="/wiki/Epirus" title="Epirus">Epirus</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/85_BC" title="85 BC">85 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i>First Mithridatic War</i>: A peace was agreed between Rome and <a href="/wiki/Pontus_(kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pontus (kingdom)">Pontus</a> under which the latter returned to its pre-war borders.
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<td rowspan="2" valign="top"><a href="/wiki/83_BC" title="83 BC">83 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Sulla%27s_civil_war" title="Sulla's civil war">Sulla's civil war</a></i>: <a href="/wiki/Sulla" title="Sulla">Sulla</a> landed with an army at <a href="/wiki/Brindisi" title="Brindisi">Brindisi</a>.
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Second_Mithridatic_War" title="Second Mithridatic War">Second Mithridatic War</a></i>: The Roman general <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Licinius_Murena_(praetor_88_BC)" title="Lucius Licinius Murena (praetor 88 BC)">Lucius Licinius Murena</a> invaded <a href="/wiki/Pontus_(kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pontus (kingdom)">Pontus</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/82_BC" title="82 BC">82 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i>Sulla's civil war</i>: <a href="/wiki/Sulla" title="Sulla">Sulla</a> was declared <a href="/wiki/Roman_dictator" title="Roman dictator">dictator</a>.
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<td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/81_BC" title="81 BC">81 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i>Second Mithridatic War</i>: <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Licinius_Murena_(praetor_88_BC)" title="Lucius Licinius Murena (praetor 88 BC)">Murena</a> withdrew from <a href="/wiki/Pontus_(kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pontus (kingdom)">Pontus</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/Sulla" title="Sulla">Sulla</a> resigns <a href="/wiki/Roman_dictator" title="Roman dictator">dictatorship</a> after enacting numerous reforms in the same year.
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<td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/80_BC" title="80 BC">80 <small>BC</small></a>
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<td>Final <a href="/wiki/Roman_consul" title="Roman consul">consulship</a> of <a href="/wiki/Sulla" title="Sulla">Sulla</a>, he leaves Rome once the year is over.
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Sertorian_War" title="Sertorian War">Sertorian War</a></i>: <a href="/wiki/Quintus_Sertorius" title="Quintus Sertorius">Quintus Sertorius</a> landed on the <a href="/wiki/Iberian_Peninsula" title="Iberian Peninsula">Iberian Peninsula</a> in support of a <a href="/wiki/Lusitanians" title="Lusitanians">Lusitanian</a> rebellion.
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<td rowspan="2" valign="top"><a href="/wiki/73_BC" title="73 BC">73 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Third_Mithridatic_War" title="Third Mithridatic War">Third Mithridatic War</a></i>: <a href="/wiki/Pontus_(kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pontus (kingdom)">Pontus</a> invaded <a href="/wiki/Bithynia" title="Bithynia">Bithynia</a>.
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Third_Servile_War" title="Third Servile War">Third Servile War</a></i>: Some seventy <a href="/wiki/Gladiator" title="Gladiator">gladiators</a>, slaves of <a href="/wiki/Lentulus_Batiatus" class="mw-redirect" title="Lentulus Batiatus">Lentulus Batiatus</a> in <a href="/wiki/Capua" title="Capua">Capua</a>, made a violent escape.
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<td><a href="/wiki/72_BC" title="72 BC">72 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i>Sertorian War</i>: <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Perpenna_Vento" class="mw-redirect" title="Marcus Perpenna Vento">Marcus Perpenna Vento</a>, by now the leader of the Romans in revolt in <a href="/wiki/Iberian_Peninsula" title="Iberian Peninsula">Iberia</a>, was executed by the general <a href="/wiki/Pompey" title="Pompey">Pompey</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/71_BC" title="71 BC">71 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i>Third Servile War</i>: The slaves in rebellion were decisively defeated by Roman forces near <a href="/wiki/Petelia" title="Petelia">Petelia</a>. Their leader <a href="/wiki/Spartacus" title="Spartacus">Spartacus</a> was killed.
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<td><a href="/wiki/66_BC" title="66 BC">66 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td>The last of the <a href="/wiki/Cilician_pirates" title="Cilician pirates">Cilician pirates</a> were wiped out by <a href="/wiki/Pompey" title="Pompey">Pompey</a>.
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<td rowspan="4" valign="top"><a href="/wiki/63_BC" title="63 BC">63 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i>Third Mithridatic War</i>: Defeated, the <a href="/wiki/Pontus_(kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pontus (kingdom)">Pontic</a> king <a href="/wiki/Mithridates_VI_of_Pontus" class="mw-redirect" title="Mithridates VI of Pontus">Mithridates VI of Pontus</a> ordered his friend and bodyguard to kill him.
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_(63_BC)" title="Siege of Jerusalem (63 BC)">Siege of Jerusalem (63 BC)</a></i>: <a href="/wiki/Pompey" title="Pompey">Pompey</a> conquered <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a> and entered the <a href="/wiki/Holy_of_Holies" title="Holy of Holies">Holy of Holies</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Second_Temple" title="Second Temple">Second Temple</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a> was elected <a href="/wiki/Roman_consul" title="Roman consul">consul</a>.
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Second_Catilinarian_conspiracy" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Catilinarian conspiracy">Second Catilinarian conspiracy</a></i>: A conspiracy led by the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Senate" title="Roman Senate">senator</a> <a href="/wiki/Catiline" title="Catiline">Catiline</a> to overthrow the Republic was exposed before the Senate. The five conspirators present were summarily executed in the <a href="/wiki/Mamertine_Prison" title="Mamertine Prison">Mamertine Prison</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/60_BC" title="60 BC">60 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><a href="/wiki/Pompey" title="Pompey">Pompey</a> joined a political alliance, the so-called <a href="/wiki/First_Triumvirate" title="First Triumvirate">First Triumvirate</a>, with the <a href="/wiki/Roman_consul" title="Roman consul">consul</a> <a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Julius Caesar</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Roman_censor" title="Roman censor">censor</a> <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Licinius_Crassus" title="Marcus Licinius Crassus">Marcus Licinius Crassus</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/59_BC" title="59 BC">59 <small>BC</small></a>
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<td><a href="/wiki/Roman_consul" title="Roman consul">Consulship</a> of <a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Julius Caesar</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/58_BC" title="58 BC">58 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Gallic_Wars" title="Gallic Wars">Gallic Wars</a></i>: Roman forces barred the westward migration of the <a href="/wiki/Helvetii" title="Helvetii">Helvetii</a> across the <a href="/wiki/Rh%C3%B4ne" title="Rhône">Rhône</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/55_BC" title="55 BC">55 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar%27s_invasions_of_Britain" title="Julius Caesar's invasions of Britain">1st Invasion of Britain</a></i>: Julius Caesar's first invasion of Britain.
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<td><a href="/wiki/54_BC" title="54 BC">54 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar%27s_invasions_of_Britain" title="Julius Caesar's invasions of Britain">2nd Invasion of Britain</a></i>: Julius Caesar's second invasion of Britain.
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<td><a href="/wiki/53_BC" title="53 BC">53 <small>BC</small></a></td>
<td>6 May</td>
<td><i><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Carrhae" title="Battle of Carrhae">Battle of Carrhae</a></i>: A <a href="/wiki/Parthian_Empire" title="Parthian Empire">Parthian</a> army decisively defeated a numerically superior Roman invasion force near <a href="/wiki/Harran" title="Harran">Harran</a>. <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Licinius_Crassus" title="Marcus Licinius Crassus">Crassus</a> was killed.
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<td><a href="/wiki/50_BC" title="50 BC">50 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i>Gallic Wars</i>: The last <a href="/wiki/Gauls" title="Gauls">Gaulish</a> rebels were defeated.
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<td><a href="/wiki/49_BC" title="49 BC">49 <small>BC</small></a></td>
<td>10 January</td>
<td><i><a href="/wiki/Caesar%27s_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Caesar's Civil War">Caesar's Civil War</a></i>: <a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Julius Caesar</a> illegally crossed the <a href="/wiki/Rubicon" title="Rubicon">Rubicon</a> into Italy with his army.
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<td><a href="/wiki/48_BC" title="48 BC">48 <small>BC</small></a></td>
<td>4 January</td>
<td><i>Caesar's Civil War</i>: <a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Caesar</a> landed at <a href="/wiki/Durr%C3%ABs" title="Durrës">Durrës</a> in pursuit of <a href="/wiki/Pompey" title="Pompey">Pompey</a> and his partisans the <a href="/wiki/Optimates" class="mw-redirect" title="Optimates">optimates</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/46_BC" title="46 BC">46 <small>BC</small></a></td>
<td>November</td>
<td><a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Caesar</a> left Africa for <a href="/wiki/Iberian_Peninsula" title="Iberian Peninsula">Iberia</a> in pursuit of <a href="/wiki/Pompey" title="Pompey">Pompey</a>'s sons <a href="/wiki/Gnaeus_Pompeius_(son_of_Pompey_the_Great)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gnaeus Pompeius (son of Pompey the Great)">Gnaeus Pompeius</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sextus_Pompey" title="Sextus Pompey">Sextus Pompey</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/44_BC" title="44 BC">44 <small>BC</small></a></td>
<td>15 March</td>
<td><i><a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Julius_Caesar" title="Assassination of Julius Caesar">Assassination of Julius Caesar</a></i>: <a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Caesar</a> was assassinated in the <a href="/wiki/Theatre_of_Pompey" title="Theatre of Pompey">Theatre of Pompey</a> by a conspiracy of <a href="/wiki/Roman_Senate" title="Roman Senate">senators</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/43_BC" title="43 BC">43 <small>BC</small></a></td>
<td>27 November</td>
<td>The <i><a href="/wiki/Lex_Titia" title="Lex Titia">Lex Titia</a></i> was passed, granting the <a href="/wiki/Second_Triumvirate" title="Second Triumvirate">Second Triumvirate</a> of <a href="/wiki/Octavian" class="mw-redirect" title="Octavian">Octavian</a> (later known as <a href="/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustus</a>), <a href="/wiki/Mark_Antony" title="Mark Antony">Mark Antony</a> and <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Aemilius_Lepidus_(triumvir)" class="mw-redirect" title="Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (triumvir)">Marcus Aemilius Lepidus</a> the power to make and annul laws and appoint magistrates.
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<td rowspan="2" valign="top"><a href="/wiki/42_BC" title="42 BC">42 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Liberators%27_civil_war" title="Liberators' civil war">Liberators' civil war</a></i>: <a href="/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mark_Antony" title="Mark Antony">Antony</a> led some thirty <a href="/wiki/Roman_legion" title="Roman legion">legions</a> to northern Greece in pursuit of <a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Caesar</a>'s assassins <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Junius_Brutus_the_Younger" class="mw-redirect" title="Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger">Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gaius_Cassius_Longinus" title="Gaius Cassius Longinus">Gaius Cassius Longinus</a>.
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<td>23 October</td>
<td><i><a href="/wiki/Liberators%27_civil_war" title="Liberators' civil war">Liberators' civil war</a></i>: Brutus committed suicide after being defeated in battle.
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<td><a href="/wiki/39_BC" title="39 BC">39 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><a href="/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustus</a> marries <a href="/wiki/Livia_Drusilla" class="mw-redirect" title="Livia Drusilla">Livia Drusilla</a>, biological mother of <a href="/wiki/Tiberius" title="Tiberius">Tiberius</a> making <a href="/wiki/Tiberius" title="Tiberius">Tiberius</a> the step-son of <a href="/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustus</a>.
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<td rowspan="2" valign="top"><a href="/wiki/33_BC" title="33 BC">33 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Antony%27s_Parthian_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Antony's Parthian War">Antony's Parthian War</a></i>: A campaign led by <a href="/wiki/Mark_Antony" title="Mark Antony">Antony</a> against the <a href="/wiki/Parthian_Empire" title="Parthian Empire">Parthian Empire</a> ended in failure.
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<td>The <a href="/wiki/Second_Triumvirate" title="Second Triumvirate">Second Triumvirate</a> expired.
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<td><a href="/wiki/31_BC" title="31 BC">31 <small>BC</small></a></td>
<td>2 September</td>
<td><i><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Actium" title="Battle of Actium">Battle of Actium</a></i>: Forces loyal to <a href="/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustus</a> defeated <a href="/wiki/Mark_Antony" title="Mark Antony">Antony</a> and his lover <a href="/wiki/Cleopatra" title="Cleopatra">Cleopatra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Queen_regnant" title="Queen regnant">queen</a> of <a href="/wiki/Ptolemaic_Kingdom" title="Ptolemaic Kingdom">Egypt</a>, in a naval battle near <a href="/wiki/Actium" title="Actium">Actium</a>.
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<td rowspan="3" valign="top"><a href="/wiki/30_BC" title="30 BC">30 <small>BC</small></a></td>
<td>1 August</td>
<td><i><a href="/wiki/Final_War_of_the_Roman_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="Final War of the Roman Republic">Final War of the Roman Republic</a></i>: <a href="/wiki/Mark_Antony" title="Mark Antony">Antony</a>'s forces defected to <a href="/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustus</a>. He committed suicide.
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<td>30 August</td>
<td><a href="/wiki/Cleopatra" title="Cleopatra">Cleopatra</a> committed suicide, probably in Roman custody and by snakebite.
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<td>The <a href="/wiki/Roman_province" title="Roman province">province</a> of <a href="/wiki/Egypt_(Roman_province)" class="mw-redirect" title="Egypt (Roman province)">Egypt</a> was organized. <a href="/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustus</a> took the title <a href="/wiki/Pharaoh" title="Pharaoh">pharaoh</a>.
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<td rowspan="2" valign="top"><a href="/wiki/29_BC" title="29 BC">29 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><a href="/wiki/Moesia" title="Moesia">Moesia</a> was annexed to Rome.
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Cantabrian_Wars" title="Cantabrian Wars">Cantabrian Wars</a></i>: Rome deployed some eighty thousand soldiers against the <a href="/wiki/Cantabri" title="Cantabri">Cantabri</a> in <a href="/wiki/Iberian_Peninsula" title="Iberian Peninsula">Iberia</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/27_BC" title="27 BC">27 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td>The <a href="/wiki/Roman_Senate" title="Roman Senate">Senate</a> granted <a href="/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustus</a> the titles <i><a href="/wiki/Augustus_(honorific)" class="mw-redirect" title="Augustus (honorific)">augustus</a></i>, majestic, and <i><a href="/wiki/Princeps" title="Princeps">princeps</a></i>, first.
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<td><a href="/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustus</a> indicated his nephew <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Claudius_Marcellus_(Julio-Claudian_dynasty)" class="mw-redirect" title="Marcus Claudius Marcellus (Julio-Claudian dynasty)">Marcus Claudius Marcellus (Julio-Claudian dynasty)</a> as his chosen successor by marrying him to his only daughter <a href="/wiki/Julia_the_Elder" title="Julia the Elder">Julia the Elder</a>.
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<td>The Roman <a href="/wiki/Client_state" title="Client state">client</a> <a href="/wiki/Amyntas_of_Galatia" title="Amyntas of Galatia">Amyntas of Galatia</a> died. <a href="/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustus</a> organized his territory as the <a href="/wiki/Roman_province" title="Roman province">province</a> of <a href="/wiki/Galatia_(Roman_province)" title="Galatia (Roman province)">Galatia</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/24_BC" title="24 BC">24 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td>Augustus' campaigns against the Cantabrians in <a href="/wiki/Hispania_Tarraconensis" title="Hispania Tarraconensis">Hispania Tarraconensis</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Cantabrian_Wars" title="Cantabrian Wars">Cantabrian Wars</a>, ended.
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Coinage_reform_of_Augustus" title="Coinage reform of Augustus">Coinage reform of Augustus</a></i>: <a href="/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustus</a> centralized the minting of and reformed the composition and value of the Roman currency.
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<td><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Claudius_Marcellus_(Julio-Claudian_dynasty)" class="mw-redirect" title="Marcus Claudius Marcellus (Julio-Claudian dynasty)">Marcellus</a> died.
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<td><a href="/wiki/21_BC" title="21 BC">21 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><a href="/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustus</a> married <a href="/wiki/Julia_the_Elder" title="Julia the Elder">Julia</a> to his <a href="/wiki/General_officer" title="General officer">general</a> <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Vipsanius_Agrippa" title="Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa">Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/19_BC" title="19 BC">19 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><i>Cantabrian Wars</i>: The last major combat operations ended. The <a href="/wiki/Cantabri" title="Cantabri">Cantabri</a> and <a href="/wiki/Astures" title="Astures">Astures</a> were pacified.
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<td><a href="/wiki/17_BC" title="17 BC">17 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><a href="/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustus</a> adopted the sons of <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Vipsanius_Agrippa" title="Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa">Agrippa</a> and <a href="/wiki/Julia_the_Elder" title="Julia the Elder">Julia</a>, his grandsons <a href="/wiki/Gaius_Caesar" title="Gaius Caesar">Gaius Caesar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Caesar" title="Lucius Caesar">Lucius Caesar</a>, as his own sons.
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<td><a href="/wiki/16_BC" title="16 BC">16 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><a href="/wiki/Raetia" title="Raetia">Raetia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Noricum" title="Noricum">Noricum</a> were conquered and annexed to Rome.
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<td><i><a href="/wiki/Germanic_Wars" class="mw-redirect" title="Germanic Wars">Germanic Wars</a></i>: Roman forces crossed the <a href="/wiki/Rhine" title="Rhine">Rhine</a> into <a href="/wiki/Germania" title="Germania">Germania</a>.
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<td><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Vipsanius_Agrippa" title="Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa">Agrippa</a> died of fever.
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<td><a href="/wiki/11_BC" title="11 BC">11 <small>BC</small></a></td>
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<td><a href="/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustus</a> married <a href="/wiki/Julia_the_Elder" title="Julia the Elder">Julia</a> to his <a href="/wiki/General_officer" title="General officer">general</a> and stepson <a href="/wiki/Tiberius" title="Tiberius">Tiberius</a>.
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