1st Triumvirate Timeline

Pompey, Crassus, and Caesar Formed the 1st Triumvirate in 60 B.C.

This 1st Triumvirate timeline fits within the following Timeline:
End of the Republic
Also see:
List of Consuls During the Period
Caesar Timeline for other events in the life of Gaius Julius Caesar
and see Caesar and the First Triumvirate Article

First Triumvirate Timeline

• 83 - Sulla supported by Pompey. Second Mithridatic War
• 82 - Civil War in Italy. See Social War. Sulla wins at Colline Gate. Pompey wins in Sicily. Sulla orders Murena to stop war against Mithridates.
• 81 - Sulla dictator. Pompey defeats Marians in Africa. Sertorius driven from Spain.
• 80 - Sulla consul. Sertorius returns to Spain.
• 79 - Sulla resigns dictatorship. Sertorius beats Metellus Pius in Spain.
• 78 Sulla dies. P. Servilius campaigns against pirates.
• 77 - Perperna joins Sertorius. Catulus and Pompey defeat Lepidus. Pompey appointed to oppose Sertorius. (See Pennell Chapter XXVI. Sertorius.)
• 76 - Sertorius prevails against Metellus and Pompey.
• 75 - Cicero quaestor in Sicily.
• 75-4 - Nicomedes wills Bithynia to Rome. (See Asia Minor Map.)
• 74 - Mark Anthony given command to take care of the pirates. Mithridates invades Bithynia. (See Asia Minor Map.) Lucullus sent to deal with it.
• 73 - Spartacus uprising.
• 72 - Perperna assassinates Sertorius. Pompey defeats Perperna and settles Spain. Lucullus fights Mithridates in Pontus. Mark Anthony loses to Cretan pirates.
• 71 - Crassus defeats Spartacus. Pompey returns from Spain.
• 70 - Crassus and Pompey consuls
• 69 - Lucullus invades Armenia
• 68 - Mithridates returns to Pontus.
• 67 - Lex Gabinia gives Pompey command to take rid the Mediterranean of the pirates.
• 66 - Lex Manilia grants Pompey command against Mithridates. Pompey defeats him. First Catilinarian Conspiracy.
• 65 - Crassus is censor. Pompey in the Caucasus.
• 64 - Pompey in Syria
• 63 - Caesar elected Pontifex Maximus. Conspiracy of Catiline and execution of conspirators. Pompey in Damascus and Jerusalem. Mithridates dies.
• 62 - Death of Catiline. Clodius defiles the Bona Dea. Pompey settles the East and makes Syria a Roman province.
• 61 - Pompey's triumph. Clodius' trial. Caesar is governor of Further Spain. The Allobroges revolt and the Aedui appeal to Rome.
• 60 - Julius Caesar returns from Spain. Forms First Triumvirate with Pompey and Crassus.

See End of the Republic Timeline

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