Sidebilder
PDF
ePub
[blocks in formation]

FIRST CENTURY BEFORE CHRIST.

(100-1.)

THE prominent feature of the century is the great dominion and power of ROME.

ROME becomes mistress of Asia Minor in 64 B. C., and under Pompey now humbles Armenia (but without annexing it), makes Syria a Roman province, and Palestine (with Judæa) a Roman dependency, - extending the Roman power to the Euphrates. Julius Cæsar, the great Roman general, in seven years subdues the whole land of Gaul. Egypt becomes a Roman province in 30 B. C. The Roman Empire begins in 27 B. C., with Octavius as emperor under the title of Augustus Cæsar. Various minor additions are also made to the Roman territory, and at the Christian epoch Rome becomes mistress of all the lands round the Mediterranean.

PARTHIA is a great power, and a formidable rival to Rome.

SYRIA becomes a Roman province in 64 B. C.

JUDEA becomes subject to Rome in 64 B. C.

GAUL is reduced by Julius Cæsar to a Roman province in 51 B. C. EGYPT becomes a Roman province in 30 B. C.

90-88. The Social War.

100 B. C.-A. D. 1.

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.

88. Beginning of the Mithridatic Wars and of the Civil Wars between Marius and Sulla.

82. Sulla declared perpetual Dictator; publishes his proscription. 73-71. Servile War (Spartacus). 70. Battle of Tigranocerta.

66. Mithridates defeated by Pompey, and Pontus reduced to a Roman province.

64. Syria reduced to a Roman province by Pompey.

63. Catiline's conspiracy.

60. The First Triumvirate (Julius Cæsar, Pompey, and Crassus).

58-51. Cæsar's campaigns in Gaul. 55. Cæsar invades Britain.

Roman Conquest.

51. Gaul a Roman province.

Beginning of

49. Civil war begins between Cæsar and Pompey.

48. Battle of Pharsalia. Pompey defeated. 46. Battle of Thapsus.

45. Cæsar declared perpetual Dictator; regulates the Roman calendar.

45. Battle of Munda.

44. Julius Cæsar assassinated. 43. The Second Triumvirate (Octavius Cæsar, Marcus Antonius, and Lepidus). Civil war.

42. Battle of Philippi. Brutus and Cassius overthrown.

31. Battle of Actium. End of the Roman Republic.

30. Egypt reduced to a Roman province. Temple of Janus closed.

27. Octavius becomes Emperor and assumes the title of Augustus Cæsar. 4. Birth of Jesus Christ.

PROMINENT NAMES OF THE CENTURY.

ROME.

Public Men.·

- Marius, Sulla, Sertorius, Lucullus, (Pompey, Cæsar, Crassus, the First Triumvirate,) Cicero, Catiline, Cato (Uticensis), (Octavius, Lepidus, Antony, the Second Triumvirate), Brutus.

Emperor. Augustus.

Poets and Dramatists. Lucretius, Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Tibullus, Propertius, Ovid.

Historians.-Varro, Julius Cæsar, Sallust, Livy, Nepos.

Philosopher and Orator. Cicero.

Greek Geographer. - Strabo.

SYRIA.

Under the dynasty of the Seleucidæ.

EGYPT.

Under the dynasty of the Ptolemies (Cleopatra the last sovereign).

[ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small]
« ForrigeFortsett »