138 BCE - 78 BCE: Life of Lucius Cornelius Sulla.

107 BCE - 100 BCE: Gaius Marius reforms the Roman army.

91 BCE - 89 BCE: Social War between Rome and its Italian allies. Italians want Roman Citizenship and equal share in power. Only won by Rome by granting the Italian wishes.

88 BCE: Mithridates Rebellion and massacre of Latin speaking Ephesians by Sulla.

88 BCE: Mithridates attacks and detroys the island of Delos.

88 BCE - 87 BCE: First Civil War between Marius and Sulla. First march on Rome by Sulla.

87 BCE: The second battle of Chaeronea. The armies of Mithridates VI Eupator led by his general Archelaos, including a phalanx of freed slaves, was defeated by a Roman army led by Lucius Cornelius Sulla, in spite of the supremacy in cavalry of the Pontic army.

86 BCE: The Roman general Sulla sacks Athens and the port of Piraeus.

86 BCE: Siege of Athens by the Roman general Sulla. Agora is destroyed.

84 BCE: Sulla mints new silver and gold coins to pay his army.

83 BCE: Pompey fights under the Roman dictator Sulla.

83 BCE - 82 BCE: Sulla's second march on Rome. Mass Proscriptions.

82 BCE - 80 BCE: Volterra is besieged and sacked by Roman general Sulla.

81 BCE: Sulla significantly curbs the powers of the Roman tribuni plebis.

80 BCE: Sulla sacks Pompeii following a rebellion and founds the 'Colony of Venus', resettling 4-5,000 war veterans.

80 BCE: Sulla is persuaded to give Pompey his first triumph in Rome.

80 BCE: Sulla moves the Olympic Games to Rome for a single Olympiad.