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**Major Events & Leaders** All dates are BC ([])


 * 146 || * End of the Fourth Macedonian War
 * End of the third Punic War
 * Carthage destroyed
 * Africa is annexed (made a part of Roman Republic)
 * Achaean War begins - war against Greeks. Corinth destroyed by Romans
 * Senate publishes //leges provinciae// - set of regulation for each province
 * First marble temple built ||
 * 144 || * Aquia Marcia aquaduct built ||
 * 143-133 || * Third Celtaberian War ||
 * 142 || * Censorship of Scipio Aemilianus
 * Bridge built over Tiber river ||
 * 137 || * Surrender in Marcinus in Spain ||
 * 135-132 || * Slave revolts - Siciliy ||
 * 133 || * King Attalus bequeaths (hands down, give up) his kingdom to Rome
 * After Octavius opposed Ti. Sempronius Gracchus, a tribune member, Gracchus voted him out of office
 * Gracchus beat to death after land bills passed by P. Cornelius Scipio Nasica ||
 * 131 || * Secret balloting, brought in by tribune Carbo ||
 * 129 || * Illyria annexed ||
 * 124 || * War against Arverni and Allobroges in Gaul ||
 * 123 || * Gracchus passes bill making Senate separate from Ordo Equester (knights) ||
 * 122-121 || * Gallia Narbonensis made a province ||
 * 122 || * Gaius Gracchus employs unemplyed by letting them build roads ||
 * 121 || * Gaius Gracchus murdered. Causes civil disorder ||
 * 113-103 || * Germanic Cimbri and Teutones invade Roman territories ||
 * 112-106 || * Jugurtha sacks Cimbri. Start of Jugnurthine War ||
 * 106 || * Birth of Pompey ||
 * 105 || * Cimbri and Teutones destroy Roman armies at Arausio. ||
 * 104 || * King Jugurtha dies ||
 * 104-101 || * Second Sicilian slave revolt ||
 * 102-101 || * Marius defeats Cimbri and Teutones ||
 * 100 || * Birth of Julius Ceasar ||
 * 93 || * T. Didius completes a victory over the Celtiberians in Spain ||
 * 91-88 || * Social War between Romans and Italians ||
 * 89-85 || * First Mithraditic War ||
 * 88 || * King Mithridates of Pontus invades Greece. 110,000 people die.
 * L. Cornelius Sulla marches upon Rome ||
 * 86 || * Sulla conquers Athens ||
 * 82 || * Birth of Marc Antony ||
 * 81 || * Sulla appointed dictator ||
 * 80 || * Sertonian War ||
 * 79 || * Sulla resigns as dictator ||
 * 78 || * Sulla dies ||
 * 75 || * Caesar captured by pirates ||
 * 74-64 || * Third Mithraditic War ||
 * 73-71 || * Slave war of Spartacus ||
 * 62 || * Ceaesar elected praetor ||
 * 61 || * First Triumvirate - Crassus, Caesar, and Pompey make secret alliance ||
 * 58-51 || * Ceasar wages war against the Gauls ||
 * 55 || * Caesar invades Britannia ||
 * 54 || * Caesar's second invasion of Britannia ||
 * 49-45 || * Civil War between Caesar and Republican forces (Pompey's) ||
 * 48 || * Death of Pompey in Egypt (decapitation) ||
 * 44 || * March 15, Caesar murdered by Brutus, Cassius, and other consuls supporting the Republicans
 * Second Triumvirate - Octavian (Caesar's son/great nephew) forms alliance with Marc Antony and Marcus Lepidus. ||
 * 37 || * Marc Antony married Cleopatra ||
 * 31 || * Battle of Actium. Octavius defeats Marc Antony & Cleopatra. Takes control ||
 * 30 || * Death of Marc Antony and Cleopatra ||
 * 28 || * Octavian named Princeps Senatus. ||
 * 27 || * Octavian names Augustus and Augustus becomes the emperor of Rome, ending the Roman Republic ||