September 9, 106 B.C. - Picenum (Ancona region) - Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus is born
January(?) 1(?), 104 B.C. - Picenum - Pompey's father, Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, becomes Quaestor
January(?) 1(?), 93 B.C. - Syracusae, Sicily - Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, becomes promagistrate in Sicily
January(?) 1(?), 92 B.C. - Picenum - Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, becomes Praetor
January(?) 1(?), 91 B.C. - Picenum - Pompey begins serving under his father in the Social War
June(?) 1(?), 90 B.C. - Firmum (Città di Fermo, Adriatic Coast) - Battle of Firmum - Victory for Pompeius Strabo. 16-year-old Pompey might have participated, under his father's orders
October(?) 1(?), 90 B.C. - Asculum (Ascoli Piceno, Italy) - In the Autumn, Pompeius Strabo breaks out of Picenum and drives the rebels back to Asculum. He lays siege to the city
November(?) 1(?), 90 B.C. - Etruria - Pompeius Strabo defeats a rebel column trying to march into Etruria, killing 5,000 rebels
January(?) 1(?), 89 B.C. - Rome - Sulla and Pompeius Strabo elected consuls
February(?) 1(?), 89 B.C. - Asculum - Battle of Asculum - decisive roman victory. 17-year-old Pompey participates under his father's orders - Asculum capitulates after Pompeius Strabo defeats an italian relief army of 60,000 men =(START)
March 15, 89 B.C. - Rome - Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, becomes consul after his victory at Asculum
December 27, 89 B.C. - Rome - Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo celebrates a Triumph for his victories against the italian allies
January 5(?), 88 B.C. - Picenum - His father's consulship expires. Pompeius Strabo and all his veteran soldiers retire to Picenum
February(?) 1(?), 87 B.C. - Rome - Cinna returns to Rome and betrays Sulla, sending a tribune to Nola to accuse him of murdering civilians. Cinna's bodyguards break into Pompeius Strabo's house and ransack it
March(?) 1(?), 87 B.C. - Picenum - The Senate requests Strabo's help against Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Cinna. He departs with his army to Rome
June(?) 1(?), 87 B.C. - Outside Rome - Pompeius Strabo fights inconclusively against Cinna's lieutenants Quintus Sertorius and Papirius Carbo during the "Bellum Octavianum"
September(?) 1(?), 87 B.C. - Outside Rome - Strabo and his army camp outside the Coline Gate. In a few days an outbreak of dysentery begins affecting the troops and he gets the disease aswell and dies
January(?) 1(?), 86 B.C. - Picenum - After his father's death, Pompey spends some time in the camp of Cinna, but is treated with suspicion and retires with his legions back to Picenum
February(?) 1(?), 86 B.C. - Picenum - An action is brought against him for "peculatus" under the accusation that he was in possession of booty and cash taken by his father from the siege of Asculum. He is acquitted when it is discovered that the theft was committed by one of his father's freedmen. The judge takes a liking of Pompey and offers his daughter Antistia in marriage
January(?) 1(?), 84 B.C. - Picenum - After his father's death, Pompey spends some time in the camp of Cinna, but was treated with suspicion and retires with his legions back to Picenum
April(?) 1(?), 83 B.C. - While in Picenum (Ancona region) - In the Spring, Sulla returns to Italy with 30,000 veterans from his campaigns in Greece and lands with his legions unopposed at Brundisium
May(?) 1(?), 83 B.C. - Southern Italy - Pompey raises three legions and decides to join Sulla, together with Metellus Pius and Crassus
December(?) 1(?), 83 B.C. - Picenum - While Sulla advances on Rome, Pompey returns to Picenum to fight the anti-sullans there
May(?) 1(?), 82 B.C. - Rome(?) - Sulla sends Metellus Pius to secure the northern parts of Italy, accompanied by young Pompey, Marcus Crassus and Marcus Lucullus
August(?) 1(?), 82 B.C. - Picenum (Ancona region) - Metellus Pius attacks and defeats Gaius Carrinas in Picenum
September(?) 1(?), 82 B.C. - Faventia (Faenza, near Ravenna) - Metellus Pius defeats the consul Papirius Carbo and his general Gaius Norbanus at Faventia
October(?) 1(?), 82 B.C. - Ravenna - Pompey takes Ravenna
November(?) 1(?), 82 B.C. - Rome(?) - Pompey is ordered by Sulla to stamp out democratic rebels in Sicily and Africa
December(?) 1(?), 82 B.C. - Ostia - Pompey sails for Sicily with 120 warships and 6 legions in 800 transport ships
January(?) 1(?), 81 B.C. - Lilybaeum (Marsala), western tip of Sicily - Pompey hunts down the Marian leadership. Papirius Carbo, the Marian Consul, is caught by Pompey's men on Pantellaria Island and taken to Pompey who has him executed
February(?) 1(?), 81 B.C. - Utica, Tunisia - Battle of Utica - Sullan victory
March 12, 81 B.C. - Rome - Pompey is allowed to celebrate a Triumph after his campaigns in Sicily and Africa. He gets the insulting nickname of adulescentulus carnifex, the "teenage butcher".
January(?) 1(?), 77 B.C. - Etruria - Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Roman consul and leader of the democratic party, is defeated by Quintus Lutatius Catulus outside Rome. The remnants of the rebels are wiped out by Pompey in Etruria.
June(?) 1(?), 77 B.C. - Mutina (Modena, Italy) - After assisting Consul Catulus in putting down the rebellion of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Pompey asks to be sent to reinforce Metellus Pius in Hispania. He then recruits an army of 30,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry
October(?) 1(?), 77 B.C. - Gallia Narbonensis (Languedoc/Provence) - Leads his legions to Spain through a welter of carnage in a transalpine war during the Autumn
December(?) 1(?), 77 B.C. - Narbo Martius (Narbonne, France) - Pompey winters at Narbo Martius
April(?) 1(?), 76 B.C. - Col de Petrus - In the Spring, Pompeius marches along the Via Domitia through Gallia Narbonensis crossing the Pyrenees at Col de Petrus to Spain. He joins with Quintus Metellus Pius to suppress the revolt of Quintus Sertorius, but is at first unsuccessful.
August(?) 1(?), 76 B.C. - near Sucro (Alzira, 36km from Valencia) - Battle of Lauron - Sertorius and his rebels defeat Pompey. Sertorius withraws when Metellus Pius arrives with his army
December(?) 1(?), 76 B.C. - Near the Pyrenees - Pompey retreats north of the Ebro River and sets up winter quarters near the Pyrenees
April(?) 1(?), 75 B.C. - Plain of Valentia (Valencia, Hispania) - Pompey moves south to the plain of Valentia
May(?) 1(?), 75 B.C. - Valentia (Valencia, Hispania) - Battle of Valentia - Pompey is victorius against Sertorius' legates Perpenna Vento and Herennius, regaining his prestige. Valentia is taken and sacked
June(?) 1(?), 75 B.C. - Arbalat de la Ribera, Valencia - Battle of Sucro - indecisive. Metellus arrives the following day (probably from Segovia) and joins Pompey
July(?) 1(?), 75 B.C. - Langa de Duero, Soria, North-central Spain - Both armies move north - Battle of Saguntum - indecisive
October(?) 1(?), 75 B.C. - Clunia, near Burgos - In the Autumn, Pompey lays siege to a series of celtiberian towns including Clunia
December(?) 1(?), 75 B.C. - River Duero (Douro) valley - Winter with the Vaccaei
April(?) 1(?), 74 B.C. - Pallantia (Palencia, NW Hispania) - Pompey lays siege to Pallantia but is forced to retreat by Sertorius
May(?) 1(?), 74 B.C. - Calagurris (Calahorra, North central Spain) - Sertorius follows Pompey to Calagurris and defeats him
December(?) 1(?), 74 B.C. - Western Pyrenees - Winter in the western Pyrenees. Pompey sends a letter to the Senate asking for reinforcements
January(?) 1(?), 73 B.C. - River Ebro valley - Metellus Pius receives two more legions. He and Pompey then descend from the Pyrenees to the River Ebro
January(?) 1(?), 72 B.C. - While at the River Ebro Valley - Quintus Sertorius is assassinated by his subordinate, Marcus Perperna, who is in turn defeated by Pompey
June(?) 1(?), 72 B.C. - Calagurris (Calahorra, North central Spain) - Siege of Calagurris and end of the war
January(?) 1(?), 71 B.C. - Foot of the Alps - While returning to Rome, Pompey is ordered to bypass Rome and head south to aid Crassus
June(?) 15(?), 71 B.C. - North of Salerno, Southern Italy - Pompey's legions capture some 5,000 rebels fleeing from the Battle of Silarius River, killing them all
January 1, 70 B.C. - Rome - 36-year-old Pompey becomes Consul and Senator at the same time
January 1(?), 69 B.C. - Rome - Pompey leaves public life after his consulship
January(?) 1(?), 68 B.C. - While in Rome - Cilician pirates launch a raid at the port of Ostia, burning the consular war fleet
January(?) 1(?), 67 B.C. - Rome - The Senate passes a law appointing Pompey commander-in-chief for the war against the pirates who were operating in the Mediterranean, disrupting grain supplies to Rome. The "lex Gabinia" gives Pompey command of the Mediterranean and its coasts for 50 miles inland for three years
February(?) 1(?), 67 B.C. - Ostia(?) - Pompey divides the Mediterranean into 13 zones – six in the West and seven in the East – to each of which he assigns a fleet under an admiral. In total he raises a fleet of 500 warships
March(?) 15(?), 67 B.C. - Western Mediterranean - 40-day campaign in the Western Mediterranean against the pirates
May(?) 1(?), 67 B.C. - Eastern Mediterranean - 49-day campaign in the Eastern Mediterranean against the pirates
June(?) 1(?), 67 B.C. - Korakesion (Alanya, Southern turkish coast) - Battle of Korakesion - Roman victory against the cilician pirates. 20,000 pirates surrender
August(?) 1(?), 67 B.C. - Cilicia (Eastern South coast of Turkey) - Pompey finishes his campaign in just 89 days. He offers the ex-pirates and their families clemency, he settles them in agricultural colonies in eastern Mediterranean lands.
January(?) 1(?), 66 B.C. - While in Cilicia - The lex Manilia, supported by Cicero gives Pompey the Mithradatic Command, replacing L. Lucullus
June(?) 1(?), 66 B.C. - Lycus (Kelkit) River, Turkey (near the Black Sea) - Battle of the Lycus: Pompey the Great decisively defeats Mithridates VI, effectively ending the Third Mithridatic War
September(?) 1(?), 66 B.C. - Artaxata (Artashat, Armenia) - Tigranes II is forced to surrender, by a payment of 6,000 talents, and is reinstated by Pompey as a "friend of the Roman people" to hold Armenia as a buffer zone.
December 1(?), 66 B.C. - Caucasian Albania (Azerbaijan) - Winter quarters in the Kingdom of Albania
April(?) 1(?), 65 B.C. - Iberia (Southern Georgia) - Marches into Iberia in the Spring
May(?) 1(?), 65 B.C. - near the Pelorus River, Iberia - Battle of the Pelorus - Roman victory. Pompey the Great subjugates the kingdom of Iberia. He then marches northwest towards the Kingdom of Colchis (Northern Georgia)
June(?) 1(?), 65 B.C. - Phasis (Poti, Georgia) - Pompey meets with Admiral Servilius and his fleet in Phasis, commanding him to blockade King Mithridates while he returned to Albania (Azerbaijan) to quell a revolt
August?) 1(?), 65 B.C. - Alazani, Azerbaijan - Battle of the Abas - Roman victory. Many of the tribes of the Causasus and Caspian send envoys to conclude peace with Rome
December(?) 1(?), 64 B.C. - Antioch (Antakya, Turkey-Syria border) - Winter at Seleucid Syria's capital of Antioch. Caesar becomes candidate to the consulship at the end of 64 B.C. - Crassus and Pompey support his campaign
January(?) 1(?), 63 B.C. - Damascus, Syria - Arrives in Damascus
April 5, 63 B.C. - While in Damascus - Prince Aristobulus and the Sadducees are besieged in the Temple of Jerusalem by Prince Hyrcanus and King Aretas of Petra, his ally. Aristobulus sends an envoy to Pompey's representative in Syria, Marcus Aemilius Scaurus
October 1(?), 63 B.C. - Jerusalem - Pompey's legions storm Jerusalem after a 3-month siege
December 1(?), 62 B.C. - Brundisium (Brindisi, SE Italy) - Returns to Italy at the end of 62 B.C. He demobilizes the legions, instructing the soldiers to gather again only when it was time for them to march in his triumph
December 15(?), 62 B.C. - Rome(?) - Pompey divorces his wife Mucia almost as soon as he had returned to Italy
September 28, 61 B.C. - Rome - Pompey celebrates his third Triumph, commemorating his victories over the pirates and Mithridates
December 1(?), 60 B.C. - Rome - Caesar, Crassus and Pompey form a political alliance named the "First Triumvirate". Orator Cicero is offered a part of the alliance but declines
May(?) 1(?), 59 B.C. - Rome - In late April or Early May, Caesar marries his daughter Julia to his political ally Pompey
January(?) 1(?), 58 B.C. - Rome - Assumes the position of "praefectus annonae", who oversaw grain deliveries to Rome
April 8, 56 B.C. - Rome - Meeting with Cicero
April 11, 56 B.C. - Rome - Departs for Luca to meet with Julius Caesar
April 13, 56 B.C. - While in on his way to Luca - Caesar invites Crassus and Pompey to renew the First Triumvirate. Caesar meets with Crassus at Ravenna
April 18, 56 B.C. - Luca, Cisalpine Gaul (Lucca, Tuscany) - Five days later, Caesar meets with Pompey at Luca. After these two meetings, Caesar, Crassus and Pompey renew the First Triumvirate and Caesar extends his Governorship of Gaul. The three agree that Pompey and Crassus would again stand for consulship next year
January(?) 1(?), 55 B.C. - Rome - Crassus and Pompey share the consulship
January(?) 1(?), 54 B.C. - Rome - Pompey builds the first permanent theatre in Rome
May(?) 1(?), 52 B.C. - Rome - Pressured by Pompey, Cicero does not participate in a Senate debate on Julius Caesar's campaign in Gaul
May 15, 52 B.C. - Rome - Senate meeting
February 1, 52 B.C. - Rome - After several attempts to hold elections had failed, the Senate passed an emergency decree declaring martial law and authorizing Pompey to levy troops in order to restore order in Rome
February 5, 52 B.C. - Rome - Pompey is elected Consul
January(?) 1(?), 51 - Rome - Pompey orders Julius Caesar to return unarmed to Rome because his term as governor or Gaul had ended and he had to face re-election
January 1, 50 B.C. - Rome - After voting, the Senate demands that both Pompey and Julius Caesar lay down their commands simultaneously
April 15, 50 B.C. - Rome - A senatorial decree requires Julius Caesar and Pompey to contribute one legion each to reinforce the troops in Syria, which was under attack by the neighboring Parthians
December 21, 50 B.C. - Rome - At a public meeting, the tribune Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony) viciously attacks Pompey
January 3, 49 B.C. - Outside Rome - Pompey meets the senators outside Rome, urging them to take decisive action against Caesar
January 7, 49 B.C. - Rome - The Roman Senate declares Julius Caesar a public enemy and appoints Pompey to organize the defence of Italy
January 17, 49 B.C. - Rome - With his legions far from Rome in the south, Pompey realizes he is unable to defend the City. He and most of the Senate leave Rome to Capua
February 19, 49 B.C. - Lucera (near Foggia) - Pompey learns of the impending capitulation of Corfinium and leaves for Canusium (Canosa di Puglia), refusing to bring aid to Corfinium
February 20, 49 B.C. - Canusium (Canosa di Puglia) - Pompey reaches Canusium
February 25, 49 B.C. - Brundisium (Brindisi, SE Italy) - Pompey reaches Brundisium
March 4, 49 B.C. - Brundisium - The consuls sail from Brundisium for Dyrrachium with 30 cohorts
March 17, 49 B.C. - Brundisium - The pompeian fleet returns to brundisium. Pompey and his troops flee to Epirus
March 20(?), 49 B.C. - Epirus (Greece-Albania border) - Lands in Epirus
January 7, 48 B.C. - Macedonia | Apollonia (near Fier, Albania) - While marching from Macedonia to Apollonia, Pompey learns of Caesar's landing
January 10, 48 B.C. - Dyrrhachium (Durrës, Albania) - Julius Caesar marches to Dyrrhachium, but Pompey arrives there first
January 19, 48 B.C. - Dyrrhachium - Pompey sends a messenger to Scipio at Ephesus to send two legions to Macedonia
April 5, 48 B.C. - Asparagium, Genusus River (Shkumnin River, Albania) - Pompey establishes his camp south of Dyrrhachium, at Asparagium, at the Genusus River
July 10, 48 B.C. - Dyrrhachium - Battle of Dyrrhachium - Pompey victory. Caesar moves for Apollonia, with Pompey in pursuit
August 2, 48 B.C. - near Larissa, Greece - Pompey establishes his camp near Larissa and joins forces with Scipio
August 5, 48 B.C. - near Pharsalus (Farsala, Central Greece) - Pompey establishes his camp near Pharsalus
August 9, 48 B.C. - Pharsalus (Farsala, Central Greece) | Larissa - Caesar decisively defeats Pompey (battle of Pharsalus). Pompey flees to Larissa
August 12, 48 B.C. - Amphipolis (Amfipoli, W. of Kavala, Greece) - Pompey arrives at Amphipolis
August 13, 48 B.C. - Amphipolis - Pompey sets sail to Mytilene, to take his wife Cornelia and son Sextus on board
August 16, 48 B.C. - Mytilene, Lesbos Island - Pompey arrives at Mytilene
August 28, 48 B.C. - South coast of Turkey - Pompey reaches the coast of Cilicia and begins rebuilding his army
September 20, 48 B.C. - Cyprus - Pompey crosses to Cyprus
September 24, 48 B.C. - Paphos, Cyprus - Pompey departs for Egypt
September 27, 48 B.C. - Pelusium (30km SE of Port Said, Egypt) - Pompey arrives in Egypt
September 28, 48 B.C. - Pelusium - Pompey is assassinated by advisors of King Ptolemy XIII of Egypt, aged 57, hoping to secure Caesar's favor in the Egyptian civil war against her sister Cleopatra =(END)
