Historical and Political Snippets in Time
The following entries mark events of historical or political significance
over the period 150 B.C. through 101 B.C.
- -150 to -101
- Cato the Elder d. -149 (b. -234)
- Third Punic War (-149 to -146): Roman forces destroy Corinth
(-147; Romans destroy Carthage: of 500,000 inhabitants only
50,000 remain alive; sold into slavery
- War between Sparta and Achaea -147
- Greece comes under Roman control -147
- The Roman Empire in -146 consists of seven provinces: Sicily,
Sardinia and Corsica, the two Spains, Gallia Transalpina,
Africa, and Macedonia
- Judas' successor Jonathan Maccabaeus assassinated -144;
succeeded by Simon Maccabaeus (to -135), who expels Syrians
from Jerusalem
- Asia Minor becomes eighth Roman province -133
- Tiberius Gracchus, Roman reformer, murdered at instigation
of the Senate -133
- Scipio the Younger, destroyer of Carthage, d. -129 (b. -185)
- Gaius Gracchus, brother of Tiberius, elected tribune and
plans wide reforms -123
- Carthage rebuilt -123
- Gaius Gracchus killed in a riot; his reforms abolished -121
- Marcus Licinus Crassus, Roman politician, b. c. -115 (d. -53)
- Chin. army crosses Lop Nor desert, occupies Tarim basin, and
imposes Chin. authority on local rulers (c. -115)
- The Cimbri, an ancient Ger. tribe, leave Jutland, which is
devastated by storms, and reach the Roman province of
Noricum (Carinthia) -113
- War in Africa between Rome and Jugurtha, king of Numidia
(-112 to -105); Marius, assisted by Sulla, defeats Jugurtha
-105
- Lucius Sergius Catilina, Roman politician, b. c. -108 (d. -62)
- Cicero, Roman politician and orator, b. -106 (d. -43)
- Cimbri and Teutones become allies and decide to invade
Italy -103
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