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1st century BC in the Roman Republic
- Donations of AlexandriaAutumn 34 BC marked the end of Mark Antony's disastrous campaign against Parthia. He had tried to play up his military success against Armenia while…
- Constitutional reforms of AugustusThe constitutional reforms of Augustus reshaped the Roman world without anyone quite noticing a republic had ended. Between 30 BC and 2 BC, the man who would…
- Bellum SiculumOn the 15th of March 44 BC, Julius Caesar lay dead on the floor of the Senate House. His assassination triggered a chain reaction that placed Sextus Pompey's…
- Roman–Gallic warsAround 390 BC, a Gallic chieftain named Brennus led his warriors, the Senones, on a march that ended inside the city of Rome itself.
- First TriumvirateIn 60 BC, three of Rome's most powerful men stood at a political impasse. Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus had returned from the Third Mithridatic War two years…
- Sulla's civil warSulla's civil war tore the Roman Republic apart in the years 83 to 82 BC, a conflict that would end not merely with one side defeated but with one man…
- Assassination of Julius CaesarOn the 15th of March, 44 BC, Julius Caesar walked into the Senate House of Pompey and never walked out. He was stabbed 23 times by a group of senators who…
- Gallic WarsThe Gallic Wars were fought between 58 and 50 BC, and the man at their center claimed to have killed over a million Gauls while losing almost none of his own.
- Battle of ActiumThe Battle of Actium, fought on the 2nd of September 31 BC, decided who would rule the known world. On one side sat Octavian, heir to Julius Caesar's name…
- War of ActiumThe War of Actium ended the Roman Republic, and it began with a will. Octavian had illegally seized the document from the Temple of Vesta, and when he read…
- Cantabrian WarsThe Cantabrian Wars began in 29 BC, the last stand of the last independent Celtic nations of Hispania against the full weight of the Roman Empire.
- Crisis of the Roman RepublicThe Crisis of the Roman Republic began in the blood of a tribune. In 133 BC, Tiberius Gracchus was assassinated by the then-pontifex maximus Scipio Nasica…
- Second TriumvirateThe Second Triumvirate was born on the 27th of November 43 BC, when three men divided the Roman world between them and gave themselves powers no Roman had…
- Battle of CarrhaeMarcus Licinius Crassus, Pompeius Magnus, and Julius Caesar met in Ravenna during March 56 BC to reaffirm their political alliance.
- Catilinarian conspiracyThe Catilinarian conspiracy nearly tore the Roman republic apart in 63 BC, when a failed politician named Lucius Sergius Catilina decided that if the voters…
- Sulla's proscriptionLucius Cornelius Sulla published two lists containing 520 names on the forum in November 82 BC. These white planks displayed the names of senators and…