Cimbrian War 112 BC–100 BC

Roman Republic ⚔ Cimbri, Teutons

Key battles

• Battle of Noreia (111 BC)
• Battle of Burdigala (106 BC)
• Battle of Arausio (104 BC)
• Battle of Aquae Sextiae (101 BC)
• Battle of Vercellae (100 BC)

Who lived through the Cimbrian War

Well-known people alive during 112 BC–100 BC:

• Cicero (106 BC–42 BC) — Roman statesman, lawyer, orator, and philosopher (106–43 BC)
• Sima Qian (144 BC–85 BC) — 2nd-century BCE Chinese historian and writer
• Sulla (137 BC–77 BC) — Roman dictator and general
• Tigranes the Great (139 BC–54 BC) — king of Armenia
• Marcus Terentius Varro (115 BC–26 BC) — Roman scholar, polymath and author (116–27 BC)
• Marcus Licinius Crassus (114 BC–52 BC) — member of the First Triumvirate
• Emperor Wu of Han (155 BC–86 BC) — seventh emperor of the Han dynasty of China (157 BC–87 BC)
• Gaius Marius (157 BC–85 BC) — Roman general, statesman and military reformer (157-86 BC)
• Mithridates VI of Pontus (133 BC–62 BC) — ruler of the Kingdom of Pontus from 120 to 63 BC
• Posidonius (134 BC–50 BC) — Greek Stoic philosopher (c.135 – c.51 BC)
• Catiline (107 BC–61 BC) — Roman politician, senator and soldier (c.108–62 BC)
• Ptolemy XII Auletes (116 BC–50 BC) — 1st-century BC Egyptian pharaoh
• Ptolemy IX Lathyros (141 BC–80 BC) — king of Egypt
• Jugurtha (159 BC–103 BC) — King of Numidia
• Cleopatra III of Egypt (160 BC–100 BC) — queen of Egypt from 142 to 131 BC and again from 127 to 116 BC
• Ptolemy X Alexander I (139 BC–87 BC) — King of Egypt
• Ptolemy VII Neos Philopator (161 BC–) — Egyptian pharaoh
• Lucullus (116 BC–56 BC) — ancient Roman statesman and general
• Lucius Cornelius Cinna (134 BC–83 BC) — ancient Roman politician, consul in 87, 86, 85 and 84 BC, father-in-law of Julius Caesar
• Berenice III (113 BC–) — queen of Egypt
• Dionysius Thrax (169 BC–89 BC) — ancient Greek grammarian
• Alexander Jannaeus (126 BC–75 BC) — second king of the Hasmonean dynasty of Judea
• Aglaonike (199 BC–99 BC) — ancient Greek astronomer, daughter of Hegetor
• Gaius Lucilius (179 BC–101 BC) — 2nd-century BC Roman satirist
• Quintus Sertorius (122 BC–) — Roman rebel leader (Sertorian War)

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