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Jugurthan War (111 BC) - events| 116 BC | Numidia | While a Roman senatorial commission is examining his claim to the Numidian throne at some length, the claimant Jugurtha, the nephew of King Masinissa, defeats his surviving rival, Masinissa's grandson, at Cirta; he also massacres some of the Italian merchants there. | | 111 BC | Rome, Numidia | The Roman Senate finally takes action against King Jugurtha of Numidia, by sending one of the consuls, Calpurnius Bestia, to subjugate him. However, Bestia achieves little and makes peace. | | 110 BC | Rome, Numidia | The Roman army, under the consul Albinus, pursues King Jugurtha of Numidia into the Numidian desert, in north Africa, but is trapped and made to ‘pass under the yoke’ (divested of its weapons and made to walk under a ‘yoke’ of spears held by the enemy). The consuls Bestia and Albinus are exiled by the Romans. | | 106 BC | Numidia, Rome | Lucius Cornelius Sulla, the Roman commander Gaius Marius' quaestor, persuades King Bocchus of Mauritania to turn against King Jugurtha of Numidia, who is lured to a conference and kidnapped. Sulla has the scene of capture carved on his signet ring and makes no secret of his jealousy of Marius. |
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