Timeline of the Life of Lucius Cornelius Sulla

112	Jugurthine War started - the legions under Quintus Caecilius Metellus had been unsuccessful	26
107	Nominated Quaestor to Gaius Marius	31
	Gaius Marius elected Consul that year
	Marius commanded the Army to prosecute the war against Jugurtha in Numidia in Northern Africa
106	Sulla captured the Numidian king be persuading King Bocchus I of Mauretania
	The publicity boosts Sulla's career
	The publicity annoys Marius
	King Bocchus donated a gilded equestrian statue of Sulla in the Forum
104	Cimbri and Teutones War begins	34
	Marius is the supreme commander
	Sulla is the military tribune during the first half of the campaign
	Sulla is transferred to the army of Marius' colleague to serve as his legatus and is credited as being the main advisor to Quintus Lutatius Catulus.  Catulus was regarded as a hopeless general and incapable of cooperating with Marius
104	Marius is elected Consul for the second time.	34
103	Marius is elected Consul for the third time.	35
102	Marius is elected Consul for the fourth time	36
101	Marius is elected Consul for the fifth time.	37
101	At the Battle of Vercellae, Marius defeats the Cimbri and the Teutones.	37
100	Marius is elected Consul for the sixth time.	38
101	Both Marius and Catulus celebrated triumphs.	37
97	Sulla elected Praetor Urbanus	41
96	The Senate and People of Rome appoint Sulla governor of the province of Cilicia.	42
	Sulla was the first Roman magistrate to meet a Parthian ambassador Orobazus by sitting in between the ambassador of Pontus and Parthia
	The King of Parthia executed Orobazus for being outmanoeuvered by Sulla.
	A Chaldean seer told him that he would die at the height of his fame and fortune.
	He repulsed Tigranes the Great of Armenia from Cappadocia
95	Returned from Cilicia to oppose Marius in the Optimate party	43
91	Tribune Marcus Livius Drusus the Younger intended to grant Roman citizenship to the Socii - Rome's Italian allies.	47
91	Assassins murder tribune Marcus Livius Drusus the Younger	47
	War breaks out with the Italian Allies
	The Optimates, fearing the ascendancy of Marius determine that he should not have overall command of the Army.
	Sulla demonstrated military brilliance as a general outshining Marius and Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo (the father of Pompey)
89	Sulla captured Aeclanum, the chief town of the Hirpini by setting the wooden breastwork on fire	49
	At the battle of Nola, Sulla rescues a legion.  The rescued legion award the highest military honor to Sulla - the Corona Graminea - the Grass Crown
88	The Senate and People of Rome elect Sulla as consul	50
	Sulla marries his daughter, Cornelia Sulla to his son of his colleague Quintus Pompeius Rufus also named Quintus Pompeius Rufus and uncle to Aulus Rufus
88	The Asiatic Vespers - the Greeks slaughter 80,000 Greeks.
	War breaks out in Asia and Greece.
	300,000 Pontic hoplites surround the garrison of Bruttius Sura
	Sulla and Quintus Pompeius Rufus block the legislation of tribune Publius Sulpicius Rufus that would ensure the rapid organization of the Italian Allies within Roman citizenship
	Sulpicius finding an ally in Marius urged his supporters to riot
	Sulla returned from Nola to meet Pompieus Rufus, but Sulpicious followers interrupted the meeting.
	Sulpicius' followers killed the son of Pompeius Rufus and son-in-law to Sulla
	Sulla takes refuge at the house of Marius
	Marius forces Sulla to accept Marius' pro-Italian legislation
	Marius promises to wipe out all of Sulpicius' debts
	Sulpicus used the Assemblies to transfer the Eastern command to Marius
	Sulpicius's supporters ejected the Senators from the Senate so as not to have a Quorum
	Some of the nobles attempt to resist Sulpicius' mob violence
	Sulpicius' gladiators defy the Senators
	Marius envoys announce the change of command.
	Sulla's legionnaires stone the envoys.
	Sulla with 6 of his most loyal legions return to Rome
87	Most of his commanders with the exception of Sulla's kinsman by marriage Lucullus enter the city limits
	Armed gladiators are no match against Roman soldiers
	Marius offers freedom to any slave who will fight for him.
	Three slaves join Marius's cause
	Marius and his followers flee the city
	Sulla returned the Rome.
	Sulla declared Marius and his allies enemies of the state.
	Sulla addressed the Senate in harsh tones justifying his actions
	Sulla reorganized the government
	Sulla then departs for Brundisium
	Sulpicius was betrayed and killed by one of his slaves whom Sulla freed and executed.
	Marius flees to Africa.
	Sulla departs from Italy.
	Sulla lands in Epirus (western Greece)
	Marius returns and controls the city.
	Sulla marches into Attica through Boeotia
	Sulla regains the allegiance of many of the cities in particular Thebes
87	Sulla Lands in Dyrrachium, Greece	51
	Sulla's objective is Athens
	the puppet tyrant Aristion ruled Athens
	Sulla's chief of Staff Lucullus scouted the way
	Lucullus relieved the current commander Bruttius Sura
	Sulla met with the Ambaassadors of all the major cities in Greece except Athens.
	Sulla impressed on them Rome's determination to drive Mithridates out of Greece and Asia
	Sulla marches on Athens
	Sulla lays seige works around Athens and the port city of Piraeus
	Sulla dispatches Lucullus to face Archelaus
	Sulla cut down the scared groves of Greece.  He cut down everything within 100 miles of Athens
	He borrowed money from the temples and Sibyls alike
	Many refugees from Rome find their way to Sulla's camp
	An embassy from Athens treats with Sulla: "I was sent to Athens, not to take lessons, but to reduce rebels to obedience."
	Spies informed him that Aristion neglected the Hepachalcum.
	Sappers brought down 900 feet of wall between the Sacred and Piraeic gates on the southwest of the city
	A midnight sack of Athens began
	Blood flowed in the streets
	Sulla's greek friends Midias and Calliphon and the pleas of Roman senators
	Sulla concentrates his forces against Archelaus in Piraeus.
	Archelaus escapes and links up with Taxiles
	Burns the port city to the ground
86	Sulla intercepts the Pontic Army at a hill called Philoboetus at Mount Parnassus overlooking the Elatean plain	52
	Marius dies the day after his election
	The Pontic Army under Taxiles number 120,000
	Archeluas wanted a war of attrition
	Taxlies had orders to attack at once.
	Sulla ordered his men to dig in and occupy the ruined city of Parapotamii, which was impregnable and commanded the fords on the road to Chaeronea
	Sulla abandoned the fords and moved behin the entrenched palisade
	The Pontic chariots fail to break split the Roman center behind the palisade
	The Ponic Phalanxes also fail
	Archelaus' right wing threatened Sulla's left wing
	Sulla is able to stablize is flank
	Only 10,000 of the Army survive
	Battle of Chaeronea
	Battle of Orchomenus
85	Liberation of Macedonia, Asia and Cilicia provinces from Pontic occupation	53
84	Reorganization of Asia province	54
83	Returns to Italy and undertakes civil war against the factional Marian government	55
83	War with the followers of Caius Marius the younger and Cinna	55
82	Victory at the Battle of the Colline Gate	56
82	Appointed "dictator legibus faciendis et rei publicae constituendae causa"	56
81	Resigns the dictatorship before the end of the year	57
80	Holds the consulship (for the second time) with Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius as colleague	58
79	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	59
78	Dies, perhaps of an intestinal ulcer. Funeral held in Rome	60