Roman Timeline

1. Marius and Sulla were Roman saviors
2. There is a great deal of hostility between the patricians and the plebeians
3. They are both sent as generals to control land disputes throughout Italy
4. Troops are very loyal to their own leader
5. The first civil war is between Marius's army and Sulla's army
• Sulla threatens to march on the city of Rome
• Sulla wins the battle and Marius has to flee Rome
6. Julius Caesar runs for senate
• His family is the Jull
7. The highest position in the senate is the consul
8. Caesar has to either go back to trial in Rome or go to Rome with his army, thus starting a civil war
9. Caesar crosses the Rubicon and says in Latin, "the die has been cast" - "Alea iacta est"
10. The battle of Pharsalus was a decisive battle during the civil, Caesar wins and beats Pompey the Great of Rome
11. Caesar has an affair with Cleopatra , the pharaoh of Egypt, thus making Rome and Egypt allies
12. He comes back to Rome a hero and named dictator for life
13. Octavian and Mark Antony have defeated the Tyrannicides(people involved or the actual killing of a tyrant)
14. Octavian was Julius Caesar's nephew
• He was named Caesar's heir when Caesar died
• In his will, Caesar adopts Octavian as his son
• Octavian refers to himself as Caesar's son from now on
15. O an MA form an alliance
• Together with Lepidus they for the Second Triumvirate
• They split up the world of Rome amongst themselves
• O gets the West(Italy and to the west)
• MA gets Greece and Egypt
• Lepidus gets the east
• He gets out of the picture
16. MA forms an alliance with Cleopatra of Egypt
• They have an affair
17. MA and C go to war with Octavian
• It is a large sea battle
• Octavian and his right-hand man, Marcus Agrippa defeat the navy of MA and C
• MA commits suicide
• C goes back to Egypt and commits suicide
• She lets a poisonous snake in her bed to bite her
18. Octavian goes back to Rome to lead and is renamed Augustus
19. He becomes the first emperor of Rome
20. The senate gives him great power and the Empire is ended
21. He is the first emperor and the first of the Julio-Claudian dynasty
• The emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty are:
• Augustus
• Tiberius
• Caligula - assassinated SUETONIUS
• Claudius
• Nero - burns down half of Rome - assassinated(forced to commit suicide)
22. After Augustus dies his heirs are not as decent as he was
• Augustus wanted peace restored in Rome
• The heirs were rather mean people