Dates Flashcards
Revolt of Spartacus in Italy
71-73 BC
Pompey and Crassus consuls
70 BC
Gaius Julius Caesar consul
59 BC
Caesar begins first five-year command in Gaul
58 BC
Caesar’s conquest of Britain
55-54 BC
Crassus killed at Carrhae against Parthians
53 BC
Gaul made a province
51 BC
Senate declares marital law against Caesar
7 Jan. 49 BC
Caesar crosses the Rubicon River, thereby declaring civil war
11 Jan. 49 BC
Pompey defeated at Pharsalus by Caesar
48 BC
Caesar assassinated
15 March 44 BC
Brutus and Cassius defeated at Philippi by Octavian
42 BC
Battle of Actium
2 Sept. 31 BC
Octavian hands back all power to senate
13 Jan. 27 BC
Senate bestows title Augustus on Octavian
16 Jan. 27 BC
Clades Variana and end of major Roman expansion
9 AD
Death of Augustus
14 AD
Africa Nova
45 BC
Annexed by Caesar, Numidia
Augustus allowed it to revert o a vassal kingdom, bequeathed to Juba II
De-annexation of Cisalpine Gaul
40 BCE
• The governor of Transalpine Gaul died, his son left it to Octavian
• Designated for Antony per the Triumviral agreements
• Bequeathal of the province to Octavian gave him an opportunity to seize and challenge Antony’s authority there
• By accepting this Octavian was not honoring the arrangement
• Octavian closed Brundisium to Antony, so he besieged it
Africa Proconsularis
27 BC
• Another great supplier of grain
• Though a senatorial province, was allowed to keep 1 legion
• Carthage was rebuilt and became the chief city
Egypt
31 BC
Annexed after the suicide of Antony and Cleopatra
• The richest of all Augustan annexations and a producer of 1/3 the grain supplies
• No one was allowed to enter Egypt without the permission of the princeps
• Governed by equestrian prefects
Lusitania
19 BC
The west part of Father Spain, an imperial province
Baetica
19 BC
the south part of Father Spain, a senatorial province
Tarraconensis
19 BC
used to be called Nearer Spain, imperial province
