Post by Gandalf on Sept 19, 2021 13:39:11 GMT -5
A timeline for ease of use for new or returning players.
102 BCE: The Year of Marius and Catulus
- Gaius Marius defeats the Teutones at Aquae Sextiae, though is slain during the battle. Quintus Lutatius Catulus is similarly killed in a Cimbrian ambush that destroys half his force.
- Marcus Aemilius Lepidus and Quintus Sertorius are elected as suffect Consuls for the remaining year, and are both dispatched to conclude the conflict.
- Sertorius prevents the Cimbri from crossing into Italy at the Padus River. Lepidus crosses the Alps and defeats their Tigrini allies at the Tanarus river, with Lucius Cornelius Sulla slaying the Gallic chieftain in single combat.
- Gaius Fabius Maximus Atellus is sent to Sicily to finish prosecuting the Second Servile War.
- Lucius Apuleius Saturninus and Gaius Mamilius Vitulus convene the Plebeian Council and pass various populist measures, chiefly aimed at securing land for Rome’s poor and their veterans.
- Sertorius and Lepidus link up their forces and defeat the Cimbri forces utterly at Cremona. The Consuls celebrate a joint triumph in Rome later that year, with games being held to conclude their consulship.
- Lepidus secures a command in Gaul for the next year. Sertorius uses the Plebeian Council, convened by his ally Saturninus, to secure the command of both Macedonia and Asia for his next term.
- Elections begin. The famed orator Lucius Licinius Crassus and the veteran Manius Papirius Mugillanus win the Consulship for the following year.
101 BCE: The year of Crassus and Mugillanus
- Marcus Aemilius Lepidus is forced to put down a Gallic rebellion prompted by the presence of new Latin colonies on their lands.
- Quintus Sertorius conducts a successful punitive expedition against the Bastarnae which takes up much of the year, and resolves a dispute over the Cappadocian succession between Pontus and Bithynia.
- Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix subdues the rebellious Gallaecian tribes without bloodshed and restores Roman authority in Northern Hispania. Hailed Imperator, he returns to celebrate a triumph late in the year.
- Lucius Appuleius Saturninus attempts to pass a slew of populist laws, only to be impeded by fellow Tribune Quintus Metellus Pius. A brawl develops in the Plebeian council which culminates in a failed attempt on Metellus’ life.
- Saturninus is barred from the Senate after the Consuls declare Saturninus’ populist measures void due to poor omens. Tensions rise in Rome as Saturninus recruits armed mobs to harass senators.
- Fabius Maixmus concludes the Servile War in Sicily by completely crushing the rebels and restoring order to the province.
- The so called ‘Saturnine Conspiracy’ kicks off when Metellus Pius attempts to disrupt unsanctioned public games held by Saturninus and Vitulus. The disturbance turns into a riot, which results in Pius being captured and Saturninus’ gladiators being let loose on the city. With the Tribune swiftly securing control over Rome, most of the Senate flees the city, with only Consul Crassus remaining to organise a defence of the Capitoline Hill.
- In the following days, the conspiracy unravels. Unable to secure the Capitoline Hill and capture the State Treasury, Saturninus’ puppet government is equally unable to stamp its authority over the nearby legions. Before long, Consul Mugillanus returns with a hastily assembled milita to retake the city, which Saturninus gives up with little effort. After a short skirmish on the Aventine, the conspirators abandon Rome. The Tribune and his conspirators flee south to secure the allegiance of a nearby legion, aiming to use it to retake the city. However, Saturninus is arrested by the returned Fabius Maximus, and commits suicide in his custody.
- The remaining conspirators flee to Brundisium, where Saturninus’ erstwhile ally Sertorius resides with the veteran second legion, having swiftly returned to Italy during the crisis. As the year concludes, the Consuls oversee elections to ensure Republican government returns to normalcy. The conspirators are declared enemies of the state, while Sertorius is ordered to lay down his command and return to the city for trial.
100 BCE: The Year of Sulla and Maximus Atellus
- Fabius Maximus agrees a truce with Sertorius that leads to the disbandment of his arms and his retirement from politics, albeit he keeps his honour property intact.
- Lucius Cornelius Sulla is given command over a campaign against the pirates in Crete, and sets off late in the year.
- Pro-Consul Lepidus provokes a war with the Aquitani Gauls, leading to several minor engagements. Eventually, he succeeds in taking their capital at Burdigala, which is ruthlessly sacked and the tribe massacres. Aquitania is annexed by Roma.
- Pro-Consul Crassus invades the Kingdom of Cappadocia, breaking the treaty that the previous governor signed with Mithridates of Pontus.
- Several reforms are passed aimed at punishing the Saturnine Conspirators and preventing such occurrences from happening again.
- Late in the year, Mithridates of Pontus invades Bithynia, surprising the locals and capturing the entire kingdom in two weeks. Nicomedia is betrayed from the inside and opens the gates to Mithridates, who declares war on Rome. Another Pontic army invades Cappadocia in the same month.
- Lepidus returns from Gaul and is elected Consul for the next year. Atellus, in a break from convention, is easily re-elected to office.
99 BCE: The Year of Lepidus and Fabius Maximus Atellus
- The Italians begin agitating for their civic rights publicly within the city of Rome. Tribune Decianus begins championing their cause.
- Quintus Metellus Pius prosecutes the Saturnine traitors Regulus and Vitulus. Both are condemned to death, with Vitulus being thrown from the Tarpeian Rock as in the old days.
- Mithridates invades Asia and brings Pergamon under his control. Crassus loses a few engagements and is driven into Cilicia with his army intact.
- The Greeks revolt at the instigation of Mithridates. Pro-Consul Mugillanus begins a back and forth war with the rebels, eventually coming to besiege Athens.
- Sulla swiftly subdues Crete with overwhelming force and takes control of his province of Cilicia. He marches north to take control of Cappadocia, with Mithridates retreating to the Pontic interior. A force of Auxiliaries under Marcus Aemilius Lepidus the Younger begins retaking the Asian cities.
- Decianus places a veto on all public business, lasting for an entire month. This only is lifted after Consul Atellus tried radically to strip the Tribune of office in the plebeian council. In response, Decianus wins over the mob by passing a popular grain dole bill and then lifting the veto.
- Quintus Metellus Pius holds Saturnalia celebrations that marvel the entire city with their extravagance.
- Pro-Consul Mugillanus is disastrously defeated by Greeks outside the walls of Athens. After slaying Greek emissaries on neutral ground, the Pro-Consul was punished by the Gods and lost his entire army, including a legionary standard. All of Greece declares for the rebellion.
- Lepidus re-runs for Consul. He is joined by moderate pro-Italic politician Marcus Antonius.
98 BCE: The Year of Lepidus and Antonius.
- A rebellion begins against Roman rule in Africa.
- Sulla defeats Mithridates at Zela, in Pontus. The Romans begin invading Pontus.
- Fabius Maximus is dispatched to end the Greek revolt, which is now claiming Thessaly and encroaching on Macedon.
102 BCE: The Year of Marius and Catulus
- Gaius Marius defeats the Teutones at Aquae Sextiae, though is slain during the battle. Quintus Lutatius Catulus is similarly killed in a Cimbrian ambush that destroys half his force.
- Marcus Aemilius Lepidus and Quintus Sertorius are elected as suffect Consuls for the remaining year, and are both dispatched to conclude the conflict.
- Sertorius prevents the Cimbri from crossing into Italy at the Padus River. Lepidus crosses the Alps and defeats their Tigrini allies at the Tanarus river, with Lucius Cornelius Sulla slaying the Gallic chieftain in single combat.
- Gaius Fabius Maximus Atellus is sent to Sicily to finish prosecuting the Second Servile War.
- Lucius Apuleius Saturninus and Gaius Mamilius Vitulus convene the Plebeian Council and pass various populist measures, chiefly aimed at securing land for Rome’s poor and their veterans.
- Sertorius and Lepidus link up their forces and defeat the Cimbri forces utterly at Cremona. The Consuls celebrate a joint triumph in Rome later that year, with games being held to conclude their consulship.
- Lepidus secures a command in Gaul for the next year. Sertorius uses the Plebeian Council, convened by his ally Saturninus, to secure the command of both Macedonia and Asia for his next term.
- Elections begin. The famed orator Lucius Licinius Crassus and the veteran Manius Papirius Mugillanus win the Consulship for the following year.
101 BCE: The year of Crassus and Mugillanus
- Marcus Aemilius Lepidus is forced to put down a Gallic rebellion prompted by the presence of new Latin colonies on their lands.
- Quintus Sertorius conducts a successful punitive expedition against the Bastarnae which takes up much of the year, and resolves a dispute over the Cappadocian succession between Pontus and Bithynia.
- Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix subdues the rebellious Gallaecian tribes without bloodshed and restores Roman authority in Northern Hispania. Hailed Imperator, he returns to celebrate a triumph late in the year.
- Lucius Appuleius Saturninus attempts to pass a slew of populist laws, only to be impeded by fellow Tribune Quintus Metellus Pius. A brawl develops in the Plebeian council which culminates in a failed attempt on Metellus’ life.
- Saturninus is barred from the Senate after the Consuls declare Saturninus’ populist measures void due to poor omens. Tensions rise in Rome as Saturninus recruits armed mobs to harass senators.
- Fabius Maixmus concludes the Servile War in Sicily by completely crushing the rebels and restoring order to the province.
- The so called ‘Saturnine Conspiracy’ kicks off when Metellus Pius attempts to disrupt unsanctioned public games held by Saturninus and Vitulus. The disturbance turns into a riot, which results in Pius being captured and Saturninus’ gladiators being let loose on the city. With the Tribune swiftly securing control over Rome, most of the Senate flees the city, with only Consul Crassus remaining to organise a defence of the Capitoline Hill.
- In the following days, the conspiracy unravels. Unable to secure the Capitoline Hill and capture the State Treasury, Saturninus’ puppet government is equally unable to stamp its authority over the nearby legions. Before long, Consul Mugillanus returns with a hastily assembled milita to retake the city, which Saturninus gives up with little effort. After a short skirmish on the Aventine, the conspirators abandon Rome. The Tribune and his conspirators flee south to secure the allegiance of a nearby legion, aiming to use it to retake the city. However, Saturninus is arrested by the returned Fabius Maximus, and commits suicide in his custody.
- The remaining conspirators flee to Brundisium, where Saturninus’ erstwhile ally Sertorius resides with the veteran second legion, having swiftly returned to Italy during the crisis. As the year concludes, the Consuls oversee elections to ensure Republican government returns to normalcy. The conspirators are declared enemies of the state, while Sertorius is ordered to lay down his command and return to the city for trial.
100 BCE: The Year of Sulla and Maximus Atellus
- Fabius Maximus agrees a truce with Sertorius that leads to the disbandment of his arms and his retirement from politics, albeit he keeps his honour property intact.
- Lucius Cornelius Sulla is given command over a campaign against the pirates in Crete, and sets off late in the year.
- Pro-Consul Lepidus provokes a war with the Aquitani Gauls, leading to several minor engagements. Eventually, he succeeds in taking their capital at Burdigala, which is ruthlessly sacked and the tribe massacres. Aquitania is annexed by Roma.
- Pro-Consul Crassus invades the Kingdom of Cappadocia, breaking the treaty that the previous governor signed with Mithridates of Pontus.
- Several reforms are passed aimed at punishing the Saturnine Conspirators and preventing such occurrences from happening again.
- Late in the year, Mithridates of Pontus invades Bithynia, surprising the locals and capturing the entire kingdom in two weeks. Nicomedia is betrayed from the inside and opens the gates to Mithridates, who declares war on Rome. Another Pontic army invades Cappadocia in the same month.
- Lepidus returns from Gaul and is elected Consul for the next year. Atellus, in a break from convention, is easily re-elected to office.
99 BCE: The Year of Lepidus and Fabius Maximus Atellus
- The Italians begin agitating for their civic rights publicly within the city of Rome. Tribune Decianus begins championing their cause.
- Quintus Metellus Pius prosecutes the Saturnine traitors Regulus and Vitulus. Both are condemned to death, with Vitulus being thrown from the Tarpeian Rock as in the old days.
- Mithridates invades Asia and brings Pergamon under his control. Crassus loses a few engagements and is driven into Cilicia with his army intact.
- The Greeks revolt at the instigation of Mithridates. Pro-Consul Mugillanus begins a back and forth war with the rebels, eventually coming to besiege Athens.
- Sulla swiftly subdues Crete with overwhelming force and takes control of his province of Cilicia. He marches north to take control of Cappadocia, with Mithridates retreating to the Pontic interior. A force of Auxiliaries under Marcus Aemilius Lepidus the Younger begins retaking the Asian cities.
- Decianus places a veto on all public business, lasting for an entire month. This only is lifted after Consul Atellus tried radically to strip the Tribune of office in the plebeian council. In response, Decianus wins over the mob by passing a popular grain dole bill and then lifting the veto.
- Quintus Metellus Pius holds Saturnalia celebrations that marvel the entire city with their extravagance.
- Pro-Consul Mugillanus is disastrously defeated by Greeks outside the walls of Athens. After slaying Greek emissaries on neutral ground, the Pro-Consul was punished by the Gods and lost his entire army, including a legionary standard. All of Greece declares for the rebellion.
- Lepidus re-runs for Consul. He is joined by moderate pro-Italic politician Marcus Antonius.
98 BCE: The Year of Lepidus and Antonius.
- A rebellion begins against Roman rule in Africa.
- Sulla defeats Mithridates at Zela, in Pontus. The Romans begin invading Pontus.
- Fabius Maximus is dispatched to end the Greek revolt, which is now claiming Thessaly and encroaching on Macedon.