The 1st century BC

1,102 sourced entries across 99 documented years, grouped into 11 decades. A century here runs 1900–1999 rather than 1901–2000, so its decades sit inside it exactly.

Decades

By subject

A few of the years

  • 99 BCEConsuls: Aulus Postumius Albinus and Marcus Antonius.
  • 87 BCEMarch 30 – The eight-year-old Liu Fuling becomes emperor, with Huo Guang General-in-Chief and regent.
  • 75 BCEAt the Battle of Saguntum the republican forces on the Iberian Peninsula and the Sertorian rebels fight each other to a draw. Quintus Sertorius is forced to withdraw leaving the battlefield to Pompey and Metellus (the republican commanders).
  • 62 BCEJanuary 5 – The forces of the conspirator Catiline are defeated by the loyal Roman armies of Antonius Hybrida led by Marcus Petreius in the Battle of Pistoria.
  • 50 BCEInitiation Rites of the Cult of Bacchus, detail of a wall painting in the Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii, is made (approximate date).
  • 36 BCEJune – Mark Antony launches a major offensive against the Parthians, in which he marches with 10 legions and 10,000 cavalry to Carana in Anatolia.
  • 24 BCECaesar Augustus becomes Roman Consul for the tenth time. His partner is Gaius Norbanus Flaccus.
  • 12 BCERoman armies based at Xanten, Cologne and Mainz campaign beyond the Rhine.