Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Roman province of Sicilia began in 264 BC when Rome intervened against Carthage to assist the Mamertines. This intervention marked the start of the First Punic War without an official declaration of war.
Gaius Flaminius arrived in Sicily in 227 BC as one of the first praetores provinciales. He oversaw the establishment of a provincial structure with two quaestores based at Lilybaeum and Syracuse.
King Antiochus Eunus led the First Servile War between 138 and 132 BC before being vanquished near Messina in 133 BC. Consul Publius Rupilius captured Tauromenium and Enna in 132 BC, and about 20,000 slaves were crucified following the war's end.
Cicero prosecuted Gaius Verres in Rome using speeches known as the Verrines that detail charges of extortion theft and robbery. Verres fled into exile after the trial began because he expected acquittal through manipulation of legal procedures but failed.
Augustus visited Sicily in 22 or 21 BC during an imperial journey and established six coloniae including Syracuse and Tauromenium. He replaced the grain tithe with the stipendium property tax while settling Italian veterans on land to compensate for demographic slumps caused by warfare with Sextus Pompey.