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Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus ( 180 BC113 BC ) was a Roman politician and general of the 2nd century BC.
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* 43 BC – Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is wounded.
In 138 BC, the Roman general Decimus Junius Brutus sought to dispose of the myth, as it impeded his military campaigns in the area.
Two years after, in 137 BC Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus led a successful campaign against the Lusitani, reaching as far north as the Minho river.
Romans scored other victories with proconsul Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus and Gaius Marius ( elected in 113 BC ), but still the Lusitani resisted with a long guerilla war ; they later joined Sertorius ' ( a renegade Roman General ) troops ( around 80 BC ) and were finally defeated by Augustus ( around 28-24 BC ).
* 44 BC – Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
Antony, left as sole Consul, surrounded himself with a bodyguard of Caesar's veterans and forced the senate to transfer to him the province of Cisalpine Gaul, which was then administered by Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus, one of the conspirators.
* Consuls are Decimus Valerius Asiaticus and Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus.
* Decimus Junius Silanus Torquatus and Quintus Haterius Antoninus become Roman consuls.
* March 15 ( the Ides of March ) – Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome, is assassinated by a group of Roman senators, amongst them Gaius Cassius Longinus, Marcus Junius Brutus, and Caesar's Massilian naval commander, Decimus Brutus.
He was defeated by two other candidates, Decimus Junius Silanus and Lucius Licinius Murena, ultimately crushing his political ambitions.
* Gallic War: Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus defeats the Veneti of Brittany: The Gallics lost most of their swanships to the Romans at the battle in modern-day Quiberon Bay.
In the civil war following Caesar's assassination, the city was besieged once again, this time by Mark Antony, in 44 BC, and defended by Decimus Junius Brutus.
* Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus — commander and another one of Caesar's assassins.
* Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus — commander and consul of Hispania Ulterior from 138 BC to 136 BC.
* Decimus Junius Juvenalis ( 1st & 2nd centuries AD ), poet, satirist
He was claimed as an ancestor of the Roman gens Junia, including Marcus Junius Brutus and Decimus Junius Brutus, the most famous of Caesar's assassins.
In 138 BC the Roman chieftain Decimus Junius Brutus put an end to the myth told by the Galicians when, on crossing the river, he began to call each one of his legionnaires by their names from the opposite bank.
Servilia's second marriage was with Decimus Junius Silanus, with whom she had three daughters ; Junia Prima, Junia Secunda, and Junia Tertia.
* Decimus Junius Silanus, the consul of 62 BC
Decimus Junius Brutus crossing the " Lethes " ( Limia River today ).
He had a son also named Decimus Junius Brutus, consul in 77 BC, and his grandson was Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus.
Decimus and Brutus
Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered shortly after.
* April 14 – Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Caesar's assassin Decimus Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, but is then immediately defeated by the army of the other consul, Hirtius.
** Antony is again defeated in the Battle of Mutina by a coalition of Octavian, Decimus Brutus, and the two consuls of the year.
Antony joints with Aemilius Lepidus, soon after Decimus Brutus is killed by brigands.
* Decimus Brutus, Roman statesman ( murdered ) ( b. c. 85 BC )
* December – Antony besieges Brutus Albinus in Mutina ( Modena ), with Octavian, an ally of Decimus, who is one of his uncle's assassins, close by.
Decimus Brutus — victor over the Veneti ( see 56 BC ) — is in charge of the fleet to blockade the harbor.
Decimus and Callaicus
Brutus Callaicus, Decimus
de: Decimus Iunius Brutus Callaicus
fr: Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus
For this reason, since they were very hard to fight with, the Callaicans themselves have not only furnished the surname for the man who defeated the Lusitanians Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus, Roman general but they have also brought it about that now, already, the most of the Lusitanians are called Callaicans.
** The expedition and conquest of Gallaecia ( north of Portugal and Galicia ), from 135 and 132 BC, led by Consul Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus.
* Decimus Junius M. f. M. n. Brutus Callaicus, consul in 138 BC.
** First big Roman campaign deep inside present Portuguese territory led by Consul Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus.
His defeat of a combined army of 60, 000 Lusitanians, Gauls, and Callaici earned Decimus a " triumph " and the cognomen Callaicus.
** The Roman Senate grants Praetor Decimus Junius Brutus the title Callaicus for his campaigns in Gallaecia.
Decimus and BC
It was not until 174 BC that the Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who presented himself as the earthly embodiment of Zeus, revived the project and placed the Roman architect Decimus Cossutius in charge.
Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus ( 14 January 38 BC – 14 September 9 BC ), born Decimus Claudius Drusus also called Drusus, Drusus I, Nero Drusus, or Drusus the Elder was a Roman politician and military commander.
* Decimus Laberius ( 105 – 43 BC ), writer of mimes
His mother was Sempronia Tuditani, wife of Decimus Junius Brutus who was consul in 77 BC.
When Caesar returned to Rome as dictator after the final defeat of the Republican faction in the Battle of Munda ( 45 BC ), Marcus Brutus joined the conspiracy against Caesar, after being convinced by Cassius and Decimus Brutus.
In 44 BC, he was made ( Decimus ) praetor peregrinus by personal appointment of Caesar and was destined to be the governor of Cisalpine Gaul in the following year.
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