-78

This page relates to the year -78 Calendrier Julien proleptic.

Events

Reign of Manes, king of the Kusana (fine in -58). First Scythian king of the India, it is established with Peshawar and Taxila.

Tigrane of Arménie, after having conquered the Cilicie, the Syria and the septentrional Mésopotamie bases the capital of Tigranocerte on the Top Tigre.

With Rome, Consul At of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Q. Lutatius Catulus.
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus tries to abolish the constitution of Sylla, of which it was in favor in the beginning, and proposes democratic reforms. It runs up against the Sénat, rises but is pushed back with the Pont Milvius.

Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, old in favor of Marius, is presented to the consulate and is elected in spite of the efforts of governmental oligarchy. Sylla and its friends can only reduce his success while giving him for colleague Quintus Lutatius Catulus, one of the main leaders of the party syllanien. Marcus Aemilius Lepidus gives an opinion in a keynote speech where he asks abolition in block of the constitution of Sylla. Catulus makes opposition and the business remains about it there.
With the funeral of Sylla (spring), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus enters in conflict with Catulus, then proposes a series of laws proposing the recall of proscribed, the restitution of the established among to those which had lost it and the re-establishment of the distributions of corn. Catulus opposes its intercession, and only the law frumentaire succeeds in passing. Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, dissatisfied, leaves Rome for Etrurie where it raises an army to make triumph its reform projects constitutional.
the Senate votes the “ sénatus-consultum ultimum ”, the martial law which gives to the consuls the right to condemn without call of the citizens, and uses it against Marcus Aemilius Lepidus.

Sylla with Cumes (born in -138). It receives in Rome of the exceptional funeral and receives the privilege to rest at the Champ de Mars, old the necropolis of the kings (spring).

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