Eleven accredited ambassadors or honorary consuls are resident in the country.

Section 2 provides that the Supreme Court has original jurisdiction in cases affecting ambassadors, ministers and consuls, and also in those controversies which are subject to federal judicial power because at least one state is a party ; the Court has held that the latter requirement is met if the United States has a controversy with a state.

Both consuls are killed ( Hirtius did not die until after the Battle of Mutina ).

* Gaius Caesar and Lucius Aemilius Paullus are appointed consuls.

* Lucius Aelius Lamia and Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus are consuls of Rome.

* Marcus Cocceius Nerva and Gaius Vibius Rufinus are consuls Ex Kal.

* Flavius Dalmatius and Domitius Zenofilus are appointed consuls.

* Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus and Publius Cornelius Scipio are Roman consuls.

Octavius and T. Annius Rufus are this year's consuls

The Carthaginians are led by Hannibal's brother Hasdrubal Barca, and the Roman armies are led by the consuls Marcus Livius Salinator and Gaius Claudius Nero.

The second praetor is appointed to relieve the backlog of judicial business and to give the Republic a magistrate with Imperium who can field an army in an emergency when both consuls are away fighting a war.

These armies are placed under the command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Papus and Gaius Atilius Regulus.

* Two Roman consuls, Spurius Postumius Albinus and Titus Veturius Calvinus, leading an invading force into Samnium, are trapped in a mountain pass known as the Caudine Forks ( Caudium ) near Beneventum, where they can neither advance nor retire, and after a desperate struggle, they are forced to submit to the humiliating terms imposed by the Samnite victor, Gaius Pontius.

The Romans, led by the consuls Lucius Papirius Cursor and Spurius Carvilius Maximus, are victorious.

* No consuls are elected in Rome, but rather military tribunes with consular power are appointed in their stead.

No triumphs are recorded in this year for either of the consuls, hence they are unlikely to have had any victories of great significance or made any deep inroads into Samnium.

Twenty-three years later there are twelve capitularii or consuls, six for the city and six for its suburbs, all of them elected and sworn to do justice in whatever municipal matters were brought before them.

Deputy chiefs of mission, chargés d ' affaires, consuls-general and consuls are always given the style.

Gaius Popillius Laenas ( the alternate spellings Popilius and Laena are fairly common ) twice served as one of the two consuls of the Roman Republic, in 172 and 158 BC.

** first consuls are Lucius Junius Brutus and Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus

** Antony is again defeated in the Battle of Mutina by a coalition of Octavian, Decimus Brutus, and the two consuls of the year.

* Decimus Junius Silanus Torquatus and Quintus Haterius Antoninus become Roman consuls.

* Cossus Cornelius Lentulus, Marcus Asinius Agrippa become consuls.

* 216 BC – Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae – The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.

Expecting Hannibal to advance on Rome, Gnaeus Servilius and Gaius Flaminius ( the new consuls of Rome ) took their armies to block the eastern and western routes Hannibal could use.

Once the Roman Senate resumed their consular elections in 216 BC, they appointed Gaius Terentius Varro and Lucius Aemilius Paullus as consuls.

Encouraged by Cicero, the Senate denounced Antony and in January 43 they granted Octavian imperium ( commanding power ), which made his command of troops legal and sent him to relieve the siege, along with Aulus Hirtius and Gaius Vibius Pansa Caetronianus, the consuls for 43 BC.

Both consuls, Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Gaius Sosius, and a third of the Senate abandoned Rome to meet Antony and Cleopatra in Greece.

Severus ' father was an obscure provincial who held no major political status, but he had two cousins, Publius Septimius Aper and Gaius Septimius Severus, who served as consuls under emperor Antoninus Pius.

* Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna Magnus and Lucius Valerius Messalla Volesus ( or Gaius Ateius Capito ) become Roman consuls.

* Gaius Asinius Pollio and Gaius Antistius Vetus become consuls.

* Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ( Caligula ) and Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo become Roman consuls.

* Gaius Sallustius Crispus Passienus and Titus Statilius Taurus become Roman consuls.

* The Roman consuls Gaius Marius and Manius Aquillius defeat the Cimbri in the Battle of Campi Raudii ( or Battle of Vercellae ).

* August 2 – The Battle of Cannae ( east of Naples ) ends in victory for Hannibal whose 40, 000-man army defeats a Roman force of 70, 000 led by consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus ( who is killed in the battle ) and Gaius Terentius Varro.

Octavian himself resigned shortly after, allowing the appointment of a second pair of suffect consuls ( the original consuls for the year, Caesar's legate Aulus Hirtius and Gaius Vibius Pansa Caetronianus, had died fighting on the Senate's side of the first civil war to follow Caesar's death, that between the Senate and Mark Antony himself ).

It seems that the minimum qualification for the fifth census class ( the lowest one eligible for military service ) was lowered from 11, 000 to 3000 sesterces of property, and already in 109 BC the consuls had had to seek suspension of Gaius Gracchus ' restrictions on the levy.

The army of Carthage under Hannibal decisively defeated a numerically superior army of the Roman Republic under command of the consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.

In 216 BC, elections resumed with Gaius Terentius Varro and Lucius Aemilius Paullus elected as consuls, given command of a newly raised army of unprecedented size, and directed to engage Hannibal.

In the same year ( 321 BC ) the two consuls, leading an invading force into Samnium, were trapped in a mountain pass known as the Caudine Forks where they could neither advance nor retreat, and after a desperate struggle would have been annihilated if they had not submitted to the humiliating terms imposed by the Samnite victor Gaius Pontius.

The majority of the senate were strongly opposed to the proposals ; a justitium ( cessation of public business ) was proclaimed by the consuls, but Marius and Sulpicius fomented a riot, and the consuls, in fear of their lives, withdrew the justitium.