Roman Timeline of the 2nd Century BC

Year	Event
198 BC	Quinctius Flamininus defeats the army of King Phillip in a battle near the Aous River.
197 BC	Revolt of Turdenati in Spain.
197 BC	Second Macedonian War ends with defeat of Philip V by T. Quinctius Flamininus at Cynoscephalae.
197 BC	Number of praetors is raised to six, to cover the growing number of Roman provinces.
196 BC	The city of Smyrna appeals to Rome for help against the attacks of King Antiochus III.
195 BC	Hannibal Barca, exiled from Carthage joins Antiochus.
192 - 188 BC	Syrian War against Antiochus.
191 BC	Antiochus defeated at Thermopylae. Antiochus' fleet defeated off Corycus.
191 BC	Defeat of the Boii by P. Cornelius Scipio Nasica, son of Gn. Scipio and cousin of Scipio Africanus.
191 BC	Rome conquers and annexes what becomes known as the province of Cisalpine Gaul.
190 BC	An army under the command of King Antiochus III of Syria is defeated by Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Eumenes II of Pergamum at Magnesia.
188 BC	Peace of Apamea ends the Syrian War.
187 BC	Construction of the Via Aemilia Lepidi, which still exists today.
187 - 173 BC	Ligurian Wars in Spain.
184 BC	M. Porcius Cato the Elder is elected as censor, and is known afterwards as Cato the Censor.
184 BC	Construction of the first basilica, the Basilica Porcia in Rome.
183 BC	Death of the Roman general P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus, in Laternium, Campania. Death of the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca, who poisons himself in order to avoid capture by the Romans.
181 - 179 BC	First Celtiberian War.
180 BC	The lex Villia annalis is passed by a tribune of the plebs L. Villius.
179 BC	A new bridge into Rome is completed. It is the first stone bridge, and is called the pons Aemilius. A new basilica is built in Rome by L. Aemilius Lepidus to celebrate his consulship. It is called the Basilica Aemilia.
174 BC	The Circus Maximus in Rome is rebuilt after suffering major structural damage.
171 - 168 BC	Third Macedonian War.
169 BC	The lex Voconia de milierum hereditatibus is passed.
168 BC	Defeat of Macedonian King Perseus at Pydna.
168 BC	Historian Polybius is brought to Rome as a hostage from Megalopolis in Greece, and is made a guest of Scipio Aemilianus.
167 BC	Taxation of Roman citizens is abolished. Taxation now falls only upon allies.
167 BC	Epirus plundered. Macedonia divided into four parts, Illyricum into four.
163 BC	Birth of the tribune of the plebs and demagogue Ti. Sempronius Gracchus.
160 BC	Birth of Gaius Sempronius Gracchus. Birth of Numidian King Jugurtha.
157 BC	The Roman general, statesman and 7 time consul, Gaius Marius, is born in the town of Arpinum.
157 - 155 BC	Campaigns in Dalmatia and Pannonia.
154 - 138 BC	Lusitanian War.
153 - 151 BC	Second Celtiberian War.
154 BC	The King of Cyrene, Ptolemy VII Euergetes Physcon, made his will, in which he promised that upon his death his kingdom would be bequeathed upon Rome.
154 BC	The road, the via Cassia, is built.
151 BC	Carthage declares war on King Masinissa of Numidia.
150 BC	Fourth Macedonian War.
149 - 146 BC	The Third Punic War. Siege of Carthage.
149 BC	The work by the Roman writer, philosopher and statesman Cato the Censor, the Origines is published. It is a history of Rome up until that point in time. A lex Calpurnia is passed, which establishes a permanent de repetundis.
148 BC	End of Fourth Macedonian War, which ended with the defeat of Andriscus by Q. Caecilius Metellus.
147 BC	Macedonia annexed as a Roman province,
146 BC	Destruction of Carthage. Africa annexed.
146 BC	Achaean War: Roman wars against the league of Greek cities. Corinth destroyed by the Romans.
146 BC	The senate publishes a set of regulations known as the leges provinciae, which were basically constitutions and laws for each province.
146 BC	The first Roman temple to be built from marble, the temple of Jupiter Strator, is dedicated by Q. Metellus.
144 BC	The aqueduct Aqua Marcia is built.
143 - 133 BC	Third Celtiberian War (also called Numantine War).
142 BC	Censorship of Scipio Aemilianus. Stone bridge over the River Tiber.
138 BC	Birth of the Roman general and dictator, L. Cornelius Sulla in Rome.
137 BC	Defeat and surrender of Mancinus in Spain.
135 BC	Birth of the tribune of the plebs L. Appuleius Saturninus, somewhere in Picenum. Birth of the historian Posidonius of Rhodes.
135 - 132 BC	Slave revolts in Sicily.
133 BC	King Attalus of Pergamum bequeaths his kingdom to Rome in a will upon his death.
133 BC	After opposing the legislation of Ti. Sempronius Gracchus, a fellow tribune named Octavius was voted out of office by Gracchus. This was a precedent in Roman history, as Gracchus was the first tribune to do this.
133 BC	Death of Ti. Sempronius Gracchus after the passing of his land bills. The consular P. Cornelius Scipio Nasica, who was an ardent opponent of Gracchus's legislation and methods, clubbed him to death.
131 BC	A new set of laws, passed by the tribune G. Papirius Carbo, the leges tabellariae, enacted secret balloting in Rome for the first time.
129 BC	Annexation of the Roman Asia Province.
129 BC	The province of Illyria is annexed into the Empire.
125 BC	M. Fulvius Flaccus, an adherent of the ideals of G. Sempronius Gracchus, proposes a bill to enfranchise the Latin citizens of Italy.
124 BC	War against Arverni and Allobroges in Gaul.
124 BC	Birth of the future tribune M. Livius Drusus.
123 - 122 BC	Tribunate of Gaius Gracchus, in which the Senatus consultum ultimum de res publica defendenda is passed (otherwise known as the Senatus Consultum Ultimum, was the ultimate decree, used only in times of crisis).
123 BC	Birth of the Roman rebel General Q. Sertorius, in the town of Nersia, Sabini.
123 BC	The tribune of the plebs G. Sempronius Gracchus passes a bill which makes the senate separate from the Ordo Equester, or the knights.
122 - 121 BC	The Gallic tribe of the Arverni are subjugated by the Roman general Gn. Domitius Ahenobarbus. Gallia Narbonensis made a province.
122 BC	After passing a law in the plebeian assembly, G. Gracchus eliminates most unemployment by engaging the unemployed in building roads.
122 BC	A new city, Colonia Junonia, is ordered to be built on the site of old Carthage. It only lasts 30 years.
122 BC	For the first time, the juries of the courts are taken off of senators and given to the knights of the ordo Equester.
121 BC	Death of Gaius Gracchus, who was murdered in the grove of Furrina, near Rome by a mob lead by the consul L. Opimius, sparking civil disorder.
121 BC	A road, the via Domitia, is built after the conquests of Gn. Domitius Ahenobarbus, and it runs along the coastline of Italy and southern Gaul.
119 BC	Tribunate of G. Marius, abolition of the Gracchus land reforms.
113 - 101 BC	Germanic Cimbri and Teutones invade Roman territories.
113 BC	Cn. Carbo defeated at Noreia by the Cimbri.
112 - 106 BC	Jugurthine War. Jugurtha sacks Cirta.
110 BC	Birth of the Roman statesman and triumvir M. Licinius Crassus.
109 BC	The consul Q. Caecilius Metellus is appointed as the new commander in the Jugurthine War and has some success.
109 BC	Silanus defeated by the Germanics.
107 BC	First consulship of Gaius Marius, who is given command in war against Jugurtha. (First of seven consulships)
107 - 101 BC	G. Marius makes reforms in the Legions.
107 BC	L. Cassius Longus is defeated by the Tigurini near Tolosa.
106 BC	King Jugurtha is betrayed by his brother-in-law King Bocchus of Mauretania. He is captured by the quaestor of Marius, L. Cornelius Sulla.
106 BC	Birth of Pompey the Great, in Picenum. Birth of M. Tullius Cicero, in the town of Arpinum, Latium.
105 BC	Cimbri and Teutones destroy Roman armies at Arausio.
104 BC	Death of King Jugurtha of Numidia.
104 - 100 BC	Second Sicilian slave war.
104 BC	The lex Domitia de sacerdotiis is passed.
102 - 101	Marius proceeds to defeat the German Cimbri and Teutones with Q. Lutatius Catulus Caesar, at the battles of Aquae Sextiae and Vercellae.
101 BC	Cilicia is annexed as a province of Rome.
100 BC	Riots of Saturninus, order restored by Marius.
100 BC	Birth of Gaius Julius Caesar.

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