| 157 BC |
Born near Arpinum. |
| 133 |
Serves with distinction at the final capitulation of Numantia, in Spain. |
| 128 |
Probable service in Asia as elected military tribune. |
| c.123 |
Quaestor. |
| 119 |
Tribune of the people. Attacks the consul, Lucius Caecilius Metellus, a member of the family whose protegé he was, for opposing his bill to lessen the opportunities of intimidation at voting in the comitia tributa. |
| 115 |
Elected praetor. Acquitted on a technicality of cheating at the polls. |
| 114 |
Governor of Further Spain. |
| c.112 |
Marries Julia, aunt of Julius Caesar. |
| 109 |
Chosen as senior legate by Metellus Numidicus to fight against Jugurtha. |
| 108 |
Elected consul. |
| 107 |
Begins to reorganize recruitment to the army. Voted by comitia tributa to take over Metellus’s command. |
| 106 |
End of wars against Jugurtha. |
| 104 |
Second consulship. |
| 103 |
Third consulship. Saturninus is tribune of the people. |
| 102 |
Fourth consulship. Teutones destroyed. |
| 101 |
Fifth consulship. Cimbri crushed. |
| 100 |
Sixth consulship. Saturninus again tribune, but his violent tactics lead to his death. |
| 99 |
Marius leaves for the east, where at a meeting with Mithridates VI, king of Pontus, he advises the king either to become stronger than Rome, or submit to Rome’s authority. |
| c.97 |
Returns to Rome and builds himself a house near the forum. |
| 91-88 |
Social War between Rome and Italian allies. |
| 88 |
First consulship of Sulla, to whom is assigned the command against Mithridates. Sulpicius Rufus, tribune of the people, passes a law transferring the command to Marius. He is killed, and Marius and his adopted son take flight. |
| 87 |
First consulship of Cinna, who is driven out by his consular colleague, but returns and with Marius captures Rome. Massacres in Rome. |
| 86 |
Seventh consulship of Marius and second of Cinna. Death of Marius 13 January. |
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