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90 BC
 
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A three-year war, known as the Social War, breaks out between Rome and her Italian allies     
-88 BC
 
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The Roman general Sulla takes the unprecedented step of marching upon Rome with a Roman army, to restore his own faction to power      
-86 BC
 
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Sulla, campaigning to the east, besieges Athens and then allows his army to loot the city      
-82 BC
 
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Sulla takes Rome for the second time, after a battle at the Colline Gate, and then publishes his lethal 'proscriptions'       
53 BC
 
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Crasssus is killed at Carrhae, in Turkey, when the Parthians defeat his army, largely thanks to their brilliance as mounted archers       
52 BC
 
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In his winter quarters Julius Caesar writes The Gallic War, an account of his own achievements in suppressing the Gauls        
49 BC
 
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Julius Caesar crosses the river Rubicon (the southern boundary of Gaul) with his army – and in doing so launches a civil war       
48 BC
 
    
Civil war breaks out in Egypt between Ptolemy XIII and his sister Cleopatra, each scheming to become sole ruler       
42 BC
 
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Octavian and Mark Antony defeat the armies of Brutus and Cassius at Philippi, after which Brutus and Cassius commit suicide        
31 BC
 
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Octavian defeats the forces of Antony and Cleopatra (both are at sea with their fleets) in a battle off the Greek coast at Actium