{"slug": "jugurtha", "label": "Jugurtha", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugurtha", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q156173", "qid": "Q156173", "description": "King of Numidia", "entries": 12, "years": 11, "span": [-159, -103], "span_label": ["160 BCE", "104 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 7}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "numidia", "label": "Numidia", "shared": 7}, {"slug": "gaius-marius", "label": "Gaius Marius", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ancient-rome", "label": "Ancient Rome", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "roman-triumph", "label": "Roman triumph", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "germanic-peoples", "label": "Germanic peoples", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "roman-senate", "label": "Roman Senate", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "spain", "label": "Spain", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "carthage", "label": "Carthage", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "douro", "label": "Douro", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-republic", "label": "Roman Republic", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -159, "year_label": "160 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Jugurtha, King of Numidia (d. 104 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1266100355#Births", "title": "160 BC", "revid": 1266100355, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -133, "year_label": "134 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Scipio Aemilianus, victor of Carthage, takes command in Spain against the Numantians. He recruits 20,000 men and 40,000 allies, including Numidian cavalry under Jugurtha. Scipio, an expert in sieges, builds a ring of seven forts and a ditch palisade before beginning the Siege of Numantia. The perimeter of the circumvallations is twice as long as that of the city. The river Durius (Douro), enables the defenders to be supplied by small boats.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1175484109#Roman_Republic", "title": "134 BC", "revid": 1175484109, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -117, "year_label": "118 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Micipsa dies and Numidia, following the king's wish, is divided into three parts, a third each ruled by Micipsa's own sons, Adherbal and Hiempsal I, and the king's adopted son, Jugurtha.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1328734696#Numidia", "title": "118 BC", "revid": 1328734696, "section": "Events › By place › Numidia"}}, {"year": -112, "year_label": "113 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Cirta is besieged by Jugurtha.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1259352573#Numidia", "title": "113 BC", "revid": 1259352573, "section": "Events › By place › Numidia"}}, {"year": -111, "year_label": "112 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Roman Senate declares war against Jugurtha following the Siege of Cirta (ends 105 BC).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326020931#Roman_Republic", "title": "112 BC", "revid": 1326020931, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -110, "year_label": "111 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Jugurtha, king of Numidia, bribes the commander Lucius Calpurnius Bestia and Roman friends to secure easy terms. He is given a safe conduct to Rome in order to account for his actions in the Roman Senate. Jugurtha contemptuously bribes his way through all difficulties.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1207645086#Roman_Republic", "title": "111 BC", "revid": 1207645086, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -109, "year_label": "110 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Jugurtha, king of Numidia, defeats a Roman army under Aulus Postumius Albinus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1288515743#Roman_Republic", "title": "110 BC", "revid": 1288515743, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -107, "year_label": "108 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Roman forces under Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus defeat the forces of Jugurtha of Numidia at the Battle of the Muthul, with Gaius Marius as a subordinate.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1314084077#Roman_Republic", "title": "108 BC", "revid": 1314084077, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -106, "year_label": "107 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Gaius Marius, to whom the putative Marian reforms of the Roman army are commonly attributed, arrives in North Africa to lead the war against Jugurtha, with a young quaestor named Lucius Cornelius Sulla as a subordinate.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325703654#Roman_Republic", "title": "107 BC", "revid": 1325703654, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -104, "year_label": "105 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Lucius Cornelius Sulla secures the capture of Jugurtha. His success is made possible by the treachery of Bocchus I, king of Mauretania, and this ends the Jugurthine War (which began in 112 BC).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1225571066#Roman_Republic", "title": "105 BC", "revid": 1225571066, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -103, "year_label": "104 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Rome enacts a state of emergency, as the way to Italy lays open to the Germanic invaders. Gaius Marius, the conqueror of Jugurtha, is elected consul for the second time. He celebrates his triumph over Jugurtha, who is led in the procession and thrown into the Tullianum where he dies of starvation.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1305141071#Roman_Republic", "title": "104 BC", "revid": 1305141071, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -103, "year_label": "104 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Jugurtha, king of Numidia (execution by Rome) (b. c. 160 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1305141071#Deaths", "title": "104 BC", "revid": 1305141071, "section": "Deaths"}}]}