Pompey Timeline

Question 1

89

Answer 1

Serves at Ausculum in the Social war under his father Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo (consul)

Question 2

83

Answer 2

Fights under Sulla

Question 3

81

Answer 3

Given first triumph by Sulla (reluctantly)

Question 4

77

Answer 4

Sent to Spain to deal with unrest caused by Sertorius

Question 5

71

Answer 5

Granted second triumph

Question 6

70

Answer 6

Made consul (with Crassus)

Restores powers of the tribunes
Revives the office of censor

Question 7

67

Answer 7

Given great powers to deal with the pirates of the Mediterranean (Lex Gabinia)

3 year assignment completed in 3 months

Question 8

66

Answer 8

Given great power to deal with Mithridates VII of Pontus (Manilian law)

Question 9

64

Answer 9

Conquers Byblos

Defeats Antiochus XIII, incorporates Stria as a Roman province

Question 10

83

Answer 10

Raises a private army of three legions in Picenum
Scores victories for Sulla
Sulla and Pompey hail each other as imperator

Question 11

82

Answer 11

Defeats the remains of Carbo’s army

Dispatched to Sicily with the imperium of Praetor

Question 12

79

Answer 12

Supports Lepidus for the 78 consulship

Loses the goodwill if Sulla(wipes him from his will)

Question 13

78

Answer 13

Death of Sulla- organises his funeral

Question 14

63

Answer 14

Annexes Suria

Invades Judaea

Question 15

62

Answer 15

Disbands his army

Demands land for his veterans

Question 16

61

Answer 16

Third triumph

Question 17

60

Answer 17

Joins the Triumvirate

Question 18

59

Answer 18

Consulship of Caesar
Makes sure land is available for Pompey’s veterans
Marries Caesar’s daughter Julia

Question 19

106

Answer 19

Born 29 September

Probably Picenum

Question 20

58

Answer 20

Ciceros exile

Clodius begins a campaign of hatred against Pompey

Question 21

55

Answer 21

Second consulship of Crassus and Pompey

Question 22

56

Answer 22

Renewal of the Triumvirate

Conference at Luca

Question 23

53

Answer 23

Death of Crassus in Parthia

Question 24

54

Answer 24

Pompey appointed to govern Spain five years- does from Rome through legates
Death of Julia at childbirth

Question 25

52

Answer 25

Death of Clodius
Elected sole Consul
His spanish assignment extended for 5 more years

Installs the lex de provinciis (5year gap between office and governor)

Question 26

51

Answer 26

Attempts to deprive Caesar of his command

Question 27

50

Answer 27

Pompey and Caesar quaraling
Both asked to relinquish one legion
Pompey nominates one he lent to Caesar
Caesar send two, Pompey retains both

Question 28

49

Answer 28

Tribunes Antony and Cassius veto the deprivation of Caesars power

Pompey given SCU to run the state
Caesar crosses Rubicon
Pompey orders the evacuation of Rome, gets his army to Brundisium

Question 29

57

Answer 29

Secures for 5 years the post of corn supply supremo

Cicero recalled

Question 30

48

Answer 30

Through tactics Caesar scores a victory at Pharsalus

Pompey flees to Egypt where he is murdered

Question 31

46

Answer 31

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus defeated at Munda

Question 32

62

Answer 32

return from the east, requests land for veterans, rejected