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| -88 BC |
| | | The Roman general Sulla takes the unprecedented step of marching upon Rome with a Roman army, to restore his own faction to power | |
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| -82 BC |
| | | Sulla takes Rome for the second time, after a battle at the Colline Gate, and then publishes his lethal 'proscriptions' | |
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| -80 BC |
| | | The 26-year-old Pompey conducts such a successful campaign in Africa that his soldiers hail him as Pompey the Great | |
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| 75 BC |
| | | Julius Caesar, captured by pirates on his way to Rhodes, warns them that he will crucify them - and later keeps his word | |
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| 64 BC |
| | | Pompey takes Antioch and brings Syria under control as a Roman province | |
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| 60 BC |
| | | Julius Caesar persuades Pompey and Crassus to join him in a political alliance to their mutual advantage, known now as the first triumvirate | |
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| 58 BC |
| | | At the end of his year as consul, Caesar travels north to become governor of northern Italy and southern France | |
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| 55 BC |
| | | Julius Caesar makes the first of his two invasions of Celtic Britain | |
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| 54 BC |
| | | Julius Caesar returns to Britain for a second visit, this time reaching north of the Thames into the kingdom of Cassivellaunus | |
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| 53 BC |
| | | Crasssus is killed at Carrhae, in Turkey, when the Parthians defeat his army, largely thanks to their brilliance as mounted archers | |
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