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Sulla

Roman dictator and general

23 dated entries naming Sulla, drawn from 17 separate years between 138 BCE and 67 BCE. 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

  • 138 BCELucius Cornelius Sulla, Roman general and statesman (died 78 BC)source
  • 107 BCEGaius 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.source
  • 105 BCELucius 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).source

1st century BC

  • 97 BCESulla displays a lion hunt for the first time in games at Rome.source
  • 94 BCELucius Cornelius Sulla is elected praetor urbanus.source
  • 92 BCEIn the first diplomatic contact between Rome and Parthia, Sulla meets with a Parthian envoy, resulting in the parties recognizing the Euphrates as a common frontier.source
  • 88 BCEAugust: The consul Lucius Cornelius Sulla becomes the first Roman commander to march on Rome with his army and to capture the city by force. This extraordinary act is prompted by his desire to maintain his proconsular command for the First Mithridatic War in Asia Minor. Sulla then murdered his enemy P. Sulpicius Rufus and forced Gaius Marius to flee to Africa.source
  • 87 BCEFirst Mithridatic War: Siege of Athens (87–86 BC) – Sulla arrives in Greece and from Autumn besieges Athens. He orders Lucius Licinius Lucullus to raise a fleet from Rome's allies around the eastern Mediterranean.source
  • 86 BCEThe Roman forces of Lucius Cornelius Sulla defeat the Pontic forces of Archelaus in the Battle of Chaeronea.source
  • 86 BCEFaustus Cornelius Sulla, Roman senator, son of the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla (died 46 BC)source
  • 86 BCEMarch 1 – Siege of Athens (87–86 BC) ends when Sulla captures Athens from the Pontic army, removing the tyrant Aristion.source
  • 85 BCEFirst Mithridatic War: Lucius Cornelius Sulla again defeats Archelaus in the decisive Battle of Orchomenus.source
  • 83 BCESpring – Lucius Cornelius Sulla returns to Italy from his campaigns in Greece and lands with his legions unopposed at Brundisium. He defeats the popular forces of Gaius Norbanus in the Battle of Mount Tifata.source
  • 82 BCEGaius Carrinas, Roman politician and general (executed by order of Sulla)source
  • 82 BCEQuintus Valerius Soranus, Roman politician and Latin poet (executed by order of Sulla)source
  • 82 BCEMarcus Marius Gratidianus, Roman praetor and politician (executed by order of Sulla)source
  • 82 BCEGaius Marcius Censorinus, Roman politician and general (executed by order of Sulla)source
  • 82 BCEApril: Sulla defeats the consul Gaius Marius the Younger at the Battle of Sacriportus, and takes control of Rome.source
  • 81 BCESulla is appointed dictator, executes his political enemies in a series of proscriptions, and implements aristocratic reforms to the Roman government.source
  • 80 BCEBattle of the Baetis River: A force of Populares exiles under Sertorius defeat the legal Roman army of Lucius Fulfidias in Hispania, starting the Sertorian War; Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius takes command on behalf of Sulla.source
  • 79 BCESulla renounces his dictatorship.source
  • 78 BCELucius Cornelius Sulla, Roman general and statesman (born 138 BC)source
  • 67 BCEJulius Caesar marries Pompeia, a granddaughter of Sullasource

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