Lucius Cornelius Sulla - Chronology

Chronology

• c. 138 BC – Born in Rome
• 107-05 BC – Quaestor and pro quaestore to Gaius Marius in the war with Jugurtha in Numidia
• 106 BC – End of Jugurthine War
• 104 BC – legatus to Marius cos.II in Gallia Transalpina
• 103 BC – tribunus militum in army of Marius cos.III in Gallia Transalpina
• 102-01 BC – legatus to Quintus Lutatius Catulus consul and pro consule in Gallia Cisalpina
• 101 BC – took part in the defeat of the Cimbri at the battle of Vercellae
• 97 BC – Praetor urbanus
• 96 BC – Commander of Cilicia province pro consule
• 90-89 BC – senior officer in the Social War as legatus pro praetore
• 88 BC –
  • Holds the consulship (for the first time) with Quintus Pompeius Rufus as colleague
  • Invades Rome and outlaws Gaius Marius
• 87 BC – Command of Roman armies to fight King Mithridates of Pontus
• 86 BC – Sack of Athens, Battle of Chaeronea, Battle of Orchomenus
• 85 BC – Liberation of Macedonia, Asia and Cilicia provinces from Pontic occupation
• 84 BC – Reorganization of Asia province
• 83 BC – Returns to Italy and undertakes civil war against the factional Marian government
• 83-82 BC – War with the followers of Gaius_Marius_the_Younger and Cinna
• 82 BC – Victory at the Battle of the Colline Gate
• 82/1 BC – Appointed "dictator legibus faciendis et rei publicae constituendae causa"
• 81 BC – Resigns the dictatorship before the end of the year
• 80 BC – Holds the consulship (for the second time) with Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius as colleague
• 79 BC – Retires from political life, refusing the post consulatum provincial command of Gallia Cisalpina he was allotted as consul, but retaining the curatio for the reconstruction of the temples on the Capitoline Hill
• 78 BC – Dies, perhaps of an intestinal ulcer. Funeral held in Rome