Tiberius Gracchus' reform and murder
A tribune's murder opens Rome's century of civil wars
In 133 BC the tribune Tiberius Gracchus passed a law to hand public land occupied by the rich over to poor citizens. Senators and their followers clubbed him to death on the Capitol; historians date the decline of the Roman Republic from this murder.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Africa
- 149 BC–146 BC Third Punic War — 16 years earlier
Asia
- c. 138 BC–126 BC Zhang Qian's mission to the West — 5 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Emperor Wu of Han (aged 23)
- Sima Qian (aged 12)
- Zhang Qian (aged 31)
- Mithridates VI Eupator (aged 2)