Pompey the Great Born: Rome's Supreme Commander
Pompey the Great conquered vast territories from Spain to Syria, reorganizing the eastern Mediterranean under Roman authority and earning three triumphs before the age of forty-five. His alliance with Julius Caesar through the First Triumvirate briefly stabilized the collapsing Republic, but their eventual rivalry produced the civil war that destroyed Pompey and accelerated Rome's transformation into an empire.
September 29, 106 BC
What Else Happened on September 29
Darío el Grande asciende al trono del Imperio Persa Aqueménida.
Themistocles lured the massive Persian fleet into the narrow straits of Salamis, where the Greeks’ agile triremes systematically dismantled Xerxes’ superior num…
en la isla griega de Salamina se libra la batalla de Salamina.
Pompey paraded captured kings, gold, and a fleet of pirate ships through Rome to mark his third triumph on his forty-fifth birthday. This spectacle cemented his…
Pompey arranged his third Roman triumph to land exactly on his 45th birthday — a scheduling flex that was entirely intentional and entirely him. He paraded the …
sacre du pape Léon Ier.
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