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Pompey

Roman general and statesman (106–48 BC)

32 dated entries naming Pompey, drawn from 24 separate years between 135 BCE and 62 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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2nd century BC

  • 135 BCEPompeius Strabo, Roman consul and father of Pompeius Magnus (d. 87 BC)source
  • 106 BCESeptember 29 – Pompey the Great, Roman general and politician (d. 48 BC)source

1st century BC

  • 83 BCEGnaeus Pompeius, age 22, raises, on his own initiative, a private army of three legions from his father's veterans and clientelae in Picenum.source
  • 83 BCETigranes the Great, King of Armenia was invited by a faction in the Seleucid civil wars, entered Syria and effectively ended Seleucid rule. Though a weakened Seleucid monarchy was briefly restored after Roman victories, ongoing instability led Pompey to abolish the dynasty and annex Syria as a Roman province in 63 BC.source
  • 82 BCEPompey is ordered by Sulla to stamp out Marian rebels in Sicily and Africa, after his campaigns in he gets the insulting nickname of adulescentulus carnifex, the "teenage butcher".source
  • 77 BCEMarcus Aemilius Lepidus, Roman proconsul of Transalpine Gaul and leader of the Populares faction in the senate, is defeated by Quintus Lutatius Catulus at the Milvian bridge outside Rome. The remnants of the rebels are wiped out by Pompey in Etruria.source
  • 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).source
  • 75 BCEIn the Roman province of Hispania Citerior an army of Sertorian rebels under Quintus Sertorius himself defeats a republican army under Pompey the Great at the Battle of Sucro.source
  • 75 BCEIn the Roman province of Hispania Citerior a republican army under Pompey the Great defeats an army of Sertorian rebels at the Battle of Valentia.source
  • 75 BCEGaius Memmius, brother-in-law of Pompey the Great, died at the Battle of Saguntum.source
  • 67 BCEDuring Pompey's war against the pirates, he raises a fleet of 500 warships and fights with great success.source
  • 65 BCEPompey the Great subjugates the kingdom of Iberia and makes Colchis a Roman province.source
  • 65 BCETigranes of Armenia is defeated and captured by Pompey, thus ending all hostilities on the northeastern frontier of Rome.source
  • 64 BCEPompey destroys the kingdom of Pontus; king Mithridates VI commits suicide after escaping to the Crimea.source
  • 63 BCEPompey conquers the people of Phonecia, Coele-Syria, and Judea for the Roman Republic.source
  • 61 BCEPompey returns to Rome with a triumph in honor of his for victories in the eastern provinces.source
  • 60 BCECreation of the First Triumvirate, an informal political alliance between Julius Caesar, Pompey the Great and Marcus Licinius Crassus (or 59 BC).source
  • 59 BCEThe First Triumvirate: Caesar, Pompey and Crassus form an unofficial alliance (or 60 BC).source
  • 56 BCEThe three Roman politician-generals of the First Triumvirate — Caesar, Pompey and Crassus — meet at the Luca Conference at the town of Luca (modern Lucca, in Tuscany), near Pisa, where they renewed their fraying political alliance, and further cemented the three men's increasing consolidation of power in the Roman Republic.source
  • 55 BCEConsuls Marcus Licinius Crassus and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus pass the Lex Trebonia.source
  • 55 BCEConsuls: Marcus Licinius Crassus and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus.source
  • 54 BCEPompey builds the first permanent theatre in Rome.source
  • 52 BCEConsuls: Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus.source
  • 51 BCEPompey demands that Julius Caesar lay down his command before he can stand for consul.source
  • 49 BCEJanuary 1 – The Roman Senate receives a proposal from Julius Caesar that he and Pompey should lay down their commands simultaneously. The Senate responds that Caesar must immediately surrender his command.source
  • 48 BCEApril – Siege of Dyrrhachium: Julius Caesar builds a fortified line of entrenchments and besieges Pompey the Great.source
  • 48 BCESeptember 28 – Pompey (the Great), Roman politician (b. 106 BC)source
  • 46 BCEApril 6 – Caesar defeats the combined army of Pompeian followers and Numidians under Metellus Scipio and Juba I of Numidia at Thapsus. After the battle Caesar grants Legio V Alaudae the right to bear the elephant symbol on its shields and standards, for bravery against a charge of elephants.source
  • 45 BCEApril 12 – Gnaeus Pompeius, son of Pompey the Great (executed after the Battle of Munda)source
  • 45 BCEMarch 17 – Civil War: In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the younger in the Battle of Munda. Labienus dies in battle, Pompey the younger is executed, but Sextus Pompey escapes to take command of the remnants of the Pompeian fleet.source
  • 36 BCESeptember 3 – Battle of Naulochus: Agrippa defeats Sextus Pompeius, a son of Pompeius, in a naval engagement off Naulochus. Sextus escapes with 17 ships to Messana and then to Asia Minor.source

1st century

  • 62Lucan writes a history of the conflict between Julius Caesar and Pompey.source

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