89 B.C. Olympiad 172.4Click on the links in the lists of references to go to the sources for each event
| 1 | ETR The senate garrisons the sea coast between Cumae and Rome with freedmen.
* Read Appian's account @ ~Appian:BCiv_1.49'a;* Macrob:Sat_1.11'32.L |
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| 2 | An Italian force attempts to encourage revolt in Etruria, but is defeated by Pompeius.
@ +Appian:BCiv_1.50'a; {CAH_9'124.} |
| 3 | Marius is forced by ill health to give up his command.
@ ~Plut:Mar_33'6; {CAH_9'124.} |
| 4 | C.Titius (? Titinius) leads a mutiny in Cato's army.
@ DioCass_fr.100'1. |
| 5 | Cato is defeated and killed by the Marsi near Lake Fucinus.
* Read Livy's account @ +[Liv]:Per_75'a;* Vell_2.16'4; +Appian:BCiv_1.50'a; Eutrop_5.3'2; +Oros_5.18'24;L {CAH_9'124; OCD_poppaedius.} |
| 6 | ITA {29 April -R} Sulla captures and destroys Stabiae.
@ #Plin:HN_3'70;L {CAH_9'125.} |
| 7 | ETR Vettius Scato meets and talks informally with Pompeius.
@ +Cic:Phil_12'27. |
| 8 | Pompeius defeats the Marsi.
* Read Livy's account @ +[Liv]:Per_74'a;* +Appian:BCiv_1.52'a; {OCD_vettius.} |
| 9 | Vettius is killed by his slave after being captured by the Romans.
@ Sen:Ben_3.23'5; Macrob:Sat_1.11'24.L |
| 10 | Q.Varius is found guilty under the terms of his own law.
@ ~Cic:Brut_305;L ValMax_8.6'4;L {CAH_9'115; OCD_v.} |
| 11 | ROM The senate suspends trials under the lex Varia because of the war situation.
@ Ascon_74'a.L |
| 12 | The Lex Papiria Plautia grants further citizenship rights to the Italians.
* Read Cicero's account @ [Cic]:RhetHer_3'2;L Cic:Arch_7;* Vell_2.17'1; {CAH_9'126; OCD_plautius.} |
| 13 | The praetor A.Sempronius Asellio is murdered after attempting to help debtors.
* Read Appian's account @ +[Liv]:Per_74'a-b; ValMax_9.7'4;L ~Appian:BCiv_1.54'a-d;* ~Oros_5.18'27-29;L {CAH_9'787.} |
| 14 | MAC The Thracians, led by their king Sothinus, invade Macedonia, but are forced back by C.Sentius.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:Pis_84;* Diod_37.5a'1; +[Liv]:Per_74'b, 76'b; ~Oros_5.18'30.L |
| 15 | PON << Nicomedes invades Pontus, with the support of the Roman envoys.
* Read Appian's account @ Sall:Hist_4.69'10; ~Appian:Mith_11'b-12'a,* 'b, 14'a, 57'b; DioCass_fr.99'1; {CAH_9'144; Green_560.} |
| 16 | CIS << Sex.Caesar(?) dies at Asculum, and is succeeded in his command by C.Baebius.
@ ~Appian:BCiv_1.48'c; {MRR_2'21.} |
| 17 | ITA The Roman admiral Albinus is killed in a mutiny at Pompeii.
* Read Plutarch's account @ +[Liv]:Per_75'a; ValMax_9.8'3;L Plut:Sull_6'16;* Polyaen_8.9'1; +Oros_5.18'22.L |
| 18 | Sulla defeats the Samnites under Cluentius near Nola.
* Read Appian's account @ Cic:Div_1'72,L 2'65;L +[Liv]:Per_75'a; ValMax_1.6'4;L Plin:HN_22'12;L Flor_2.6'13;L +Appian:BCiv_1.50'b-d;* +Oros_5.18'23;L {CAH_9'124.} |
| 19 | Sulla subdues the Hirpini.
* Read Appian's account @ +[Liv]:Per_75'b; +Appian:BCiv_1.51'a-b;* [Vict]:VirIll_75'5.L |
| 20 | Sulla invades Samnium and captures Bovianum.
@ +Appian:BCiv_1.51'b-c; {CAH_9'1255.} |
| 21 | << Carbo defeats the Lucanians.
@ Flor_2.6'13.L |
| 22 | Cosconius defeats the Samnites under Trebatius near Canusium.
* Read Appian's account @ ~Diod_37.2'8; +[Liv]:Per_75'a; +Appian:BCiv_1.52'a-b;* {CAH_9'125.} |
| 23 | The Romans capture Herculaneum and besiege Pompeii.
@ Vell_2.16'2; {CAH_9'125.} |
| 24 | {June 11 -R} T.Didius is defeated and killed by the Italians.
@ #Ovid:Fast_6'567-568;L {OCD_d.} |
| 25 | The Italian general Marius Egnatius is killed by the Romans.
@ +[Liv]:Per_75'a. |
| 26 | ETR Pompeius defeats a large force of Italians near Asculum, after which Vidacilius commits suicide.
* Read Appian's account @ Vell_2.21'1; ~Appian:BCiv_1.48'a-b;* ~Oros_5.18'21;L {CAH_9'125.} |
| 27 | AS1 Mithridates sends Pelopidas to complain to the Roman envoys in Asia about Nicomedes' aggression.
* Read Appian's account @ Sall:Hist_4.69'10; ~Appian:Mith_12'a-14'c;* {CAH_9'144; Green_560.} |
| 28 | PAL Demetrius Akairos defeats Alexander near Shechem.
* Read Josephus' account @ (?) Qumran_4Q169'1; Joseph:BJ_1'92-95,* ~:AJ_13'376-378; {Shortly before Demetrius was defeated by Philippus.} |
| 29 | ITA Some slaves rescue their mistress after Grumentum is captured.
@ Sen:Ben_3.23'2-4; Macrob:Sat_1.11'23;L {Grumentum may have been captured by the Roman army which Gabinius led into Lucania.} |
| 30 | A.Gabinius is defeated and killed in Lucania.
* Read Livy's account @ ~[Liv]:Per_76'a;* +Oros_5.18'25.L |
| 31 | ETR Sulpicius subdues the Marrucini.
* Read Livy's account @ ~[Liv]:Per_76'a;* +Oros_5.18'25;L {CAH_9'124.} |
| 32 | The Romans besiege Pinna, a city of the Vestini.
@ ValMax_5.4e'7.L |
| 33 | The Vestini surrender to Pompeius.
* Read Livy's account @ +[Liv]:Per_75'a,* 76'a; +Appian:BCiv_1.52'a; +Oros_5.18'25;L {CAH_9'124.} |
| 34 | The Paeligni surrender to Pompeius.
@ ~[Liv]:Per_76'a. |
| 35 | CAP Mithridates expels Ariobarzanes from Cappadocia.
* Read Appian's account @ ~[Liv]:Per_76'b; Appian:Syr_48'a, :Mith_10'b,* 15'a, 57'c; Festus:Brev_11'3; {CAH_9'144; OCD_a.} |
| 36 | ROM Sulla returns to Rome to stand as a candidate for consul.
* Read Livy's account @ ~Diod_37.25'1; +[Liv]:Per_75'b;* Vell_2.17'3; +Appian:BCiv_1.51'c; {CAH_9'125; OCD_s.} |
| 37 | CIS Pompeius grants Latin status to the Transpadanes.
@ Ascon_3'a-b;L Plin:HN_3'138;L {CAH_9'126.} |
| 38 | ETR Document: CIL_848-861,L 875, 877, sling shots from Asculum.
@ ROL_p212. |
| 39 | ETR Pompeius captures and sacks Asculum.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Cic:Clu_21; ~[Liv]:Per_76'a, 85'a; Vell_2.21'1; (?) Tac:Ann_13'6; Plut:Pomp_4'2-3;* Flor_2.6'14;L Gell_15.4'3;L ~Oros_5.18'18-20,L '26;L {CAH_9'125; OCD_p.} |
| 40 | ROM C.Caesar attempts to stand as a candidate in the consular elections, but is stopped by Sulpicius.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:HarResp_43,* :Brut_226;L Ascon_25'a-b;L Quint_6.3'75; {CAH_9'166; OCD_c.} |
| 41 | PON Mithridates and the Romans make preparations for a new war.
* Read Appian's account @ ~Appian:Mith_17'a-c;* ~Just_38.3'5-7. |
| 42 | ETR {17 Nov. -R} Document: CIL_709,L in which Pompeius grants Roman citizenship to a squadron of Spanish horsemen.
@ ROL_p272; {CAH_9'126.} |
| 43 | Pompeius grants Roman citizenship to P.Caesius of Ravenna.
@ Cic:Balb_50. |
| 44 | ROM Q.Metellus, as praetor, enrols the poet Archias as a Roman citizen.
@ Cic:Arch_7-8; {MRR_2'20.} |
| 45 | The lex Plautia alters the composition of juries.
@ +Ascon_79'a-b;L {CAH_9'114-115; OCD_p.} |
| 46 | Papirius Carbo passes a law which sets the weight of an as at half an ounce.
@ Plin:HN_33'46;L {MRR_2'25.} |
| 47 | << C.Vettienus is punished for trying to avoid serving in the Roman army.
@ ValMax_6.3'3.L |
| 48 | The censors P.Crassus and L.Caesar impose curbs on luxury goods such as scent and wine.
@ ~Plin:HN_13'24,L 14'95;L {CAH_9'787; OCD_crassus.} |
| 49 | {25 December -R} The triumph of Pompeius Strabo, over the Picentes of Asculum.
* Read Dio's account @ #FastTr_p107; Vell_2.65'3; ValMax_6.9'9;L Ascon_14'b;L Plin:HN_7'135;L Gell_15.4'3;L DioCass_43.51'4-5,* 49.21'3; {CAH_9'126; OCD_p.} |
| 50 | AS1 ?? Document: OGI_438, an inscription in honour of Herostratus.
@ Sherk1_58. |
| 51 | ITA << Volcanic fires appear for several days on the islands of Lipara and Hiera.
@ Plin:HN_2'238.L |
| 52 | ITA == Document: CIL_590,L a new constitution granted to Tarentum.
@ ROL_p438. |
| 53 | ROM == The censors do not carry out a census of Roman citizens.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:Arch_11;* +FastCap_p74. |
| 54 | ++ The childhood of T.Pomponius Atticus.
@ Nepos:Att_1'1-4. |
| 55 | CIS == The floruit of the dramatist L.Pomponius of Bononia.
@ +Hieron:Chron_1928. |
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