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Gracchus and office
Tiberius Gracchus only moved to have Marcus Octavius removed from office after a vote was put to the Assembly.
Tiberius Gracchus had taken the office of tribune and was passing laws of reform to help rectify this domestic crisis, though his legislation was empowering the plebs of Roman society.
So Gracchus immediately after entering on office, proposed the enactment of an agrarian law.
Gracchus responded by ultimately having the Plebeian Assembly deprive him of his office and eject him from the Assembly's meeting place in 133 BC.

Gracchus and at
Because the political franchise at the start of the revolution was relatively narrow, the original " Left " represented mainly the interests of the bourgeoisie, the rising capitalist class ( with notable exceptions such as the proto-communist Gracchus Babeuf ).
Florus calls it the urbs urbinum, or capital of Sardinia, and represents it as taken and severely punished by Gracchus, but this statement is wholly at variance with the account given by Livy, of the wars of Gracchus, in Sardinia, according to which the cities were faithful to Rome, and the revolt was confined to the mountain tribes.
** Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, Roman politician, who, as a plebeian tribune, will cause political turmoil in the Republic through his attempts to legislate agrarian reforms ; his political ideals will eventually lead to his death at the hands of supporters of the conservative faction ( Optimates ) of the Roman Senate ( d. 132 BC )
* Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, Roman politician, who, as a plebeian tribune, will cause political turmoil in the Republic through his attempts to legislate agrarian reforms ; his political ideals will eventually lead to his death at the hands of supporters of the conservative faction ( Optimates ) of the Roman Senate ( d. 132 BC )
Tiberius Gracchus ' overruling of the tribunician veto was considered illegal, and his opponents were determined to prosecute him at the end of his one year term, since he was regarded as having violated the constitution and having used force against a tribune.
Only three survived childhood: Sempronia, married to her cousin Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus ; and the brothers Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus, who would defy the political institutions of Rome, with their attempts at popular reforms.
* Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus ( d. 174 BC ), son of the above, elected to the priesthood in 203 BC at a very young age
He would later die there in Pergamon, allegedly at the hands of some of Gracchus ’ supporters.
His first important success was Caius Gracchus, produced at Belfast in 1815 ; and his Virginius, written for Edmund Kean, was first performed in 1820 at Covent Garden.
In 215 BCE, Hanno, the lieutenant of Hannibal, after his defeat at Grumentum by Tiberius Gracchus, threw himself into Bruttium, where he was soon after joined by a body of fresh troops from Carthage under Bomilcar: and from this time he made that region his stronghold, from whence he repeatedly issued to oppose the Roman generals in Lucania and Samnium, while he constantly fell back upon it as a place of safety when defeated or hard pressed by the enemy.
His father Tiberius Gracchus Major was twice consul, a powerful man at his death in 150.
It was first passed during the fall from power of Gaius Gracchus in 121 BC, and subsequently at several other points, including during Lepidus ' march on Rome in 77 BC, the Conspiracy of Catiline in 63, and when Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon in 49.
Gracchus later appears in the arena: Greater still the portent when Gracchus, clad in a tunic, played the gladiator, and fled, trident in hand, across the arena — Gracchus, a man of nobler birth than the Capitolini, or the Marcelli, or the descendants of Catulus or Paulus, or the Fabii: nobler than all the spectators in the podium ; not excepting him who gave the show at which that net was flung. Gracchus appears once again in Juvenal's eighth satire as the worst example of the noble Romans who have disgraced themselves by appearing in public spectacles and popular entertainments:
Though originally close friends, Octavius became alarmed by Gracchus's populist agenda and, at the behest of the Roman senate, repeatedly vetoed Gracchus ' programmes of land reform.
Simultaneously, her alleged paramour Sempronius Gracchus, who had endured 14 years of exile on Cercina ( Kerkenna ) off the African coast, was executed at Tiberius ' instigation, or on the independent initiative of Nonius Asprenas, proconsul of Africa.
* François Gracchus Cabrol ( 1793 – 1882 ), captain in the Napleonic army at 21, director of the mining enterprise.

Gracchus and time
* Gaius Gracchus elected Roman tribune for the first time.
At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Maximus and Gracchus ( or, less frequently, year 541 Ab urbe condita ).
At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Albinus / Marcellus / Verrucosus and Gracchus ( or, less frequently, year 539 Ab urbe condita ).
At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Gracchus and Thalna ( or, less frequently, year 591 Ab urbe condita ).
At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Pulcher and Gracchus ( or, less frequently, year 577 Ab urbe condita ).
At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Gracchus and Falto ( or, less frequently, year 516 Ab urbe condita ).
Most of the information that we have on her role during this time is what Plutarch wrote in both the “ Life of Tiberius Gracchusand the “ Life of Gaius Gracchus ”.
During this time he met Cornelia Africana, who was recently widowed following the death of her husband Tiberius Gracchus Major, and asked for her hand in marriage, which she refused.
There he met Gracchus Babeuf, and became one of his most fervent supporters and co-conspirators during the time of their mutual imprisonment from March to October.
Her alleged paramour, Sempronius Gracchus, was executed around the same time on Tiberius ’ s orders.
* In the original French version, the camp centurion in this story ( Gracchus Nenjetépus ) is the same as that of the previous volume, Asterix the Gladiator — the only time a centurion appears in more than one album.
For a time after leaving the Terry, Cassius looked for whatever work he could find, eventually joining a resistance group led by Gracchus.

Gracchus and when
In its immediate neighborhood were fought two of the most decisive actions of the war: the Battle of Beneventum, ( 214 BC ), in which the Carthaginian general Hanno was defeated by Tiberius Gracchus ; the other in 212 BC, when the camp of Hanno, in which he had accumulated a vast quantity of corn and other stores, was stormed and taken by the Roman consul Quintus Fulvius Flaccus.
Particularly important and unprecedented political events took place in 133 BC when, in the midst of riots in and around the Forum, the Tribune Tiberius Gracchus was lynched there by a group of Senators.
Cornelia married Tiberius Gracchus Major, the father of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, when he was already in an advanced age.
He subsequently went over to the optimates, and ( when consul in 120 BC ) successfully defended Lucius Opimius, the murderer of Gaius Gracchus.
* Licinius, an educated slave belonging to Gaius Sempronius Gracchus, who, according to a well-known story, used to stand behind his master with a musical instrument, in order to moderate Gracchus ' tone when he was speaking.
It was revolution against the spirit of the constitution, when Gracchus submitted the domain question to the people ; and revolution also against ... the tribunician veto.
The Pons Sublicius is also the bridge over which Gaius Gracchus directed his flight when he was overtaken by his opponents ( Plutarch, Life of Gaius Gracchus ).

Gracchus and Roman
Gaius Gracchus flees a mob of senators and equites after failing to win reelection to the Roman Tribune | tribunate in 121 BC.
* The assassination of Tiberius Gracchus, which many historians marked as the beginning of the end of the Roman Republic.
* Tiberius Gracchus, Roman tribune ( assassinated by senators ) ( b. 168 BC )
* 123 BC – Gaius Gracchus, Roman tribune
* 154 BC – Gaius Gracchus, Roman politician, younger brother of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus
** Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, Roman consul from 215 to 213 BC
* 168 BC – Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, Roman politician who would create turmoil in the Republic through his attempts to legislate agrarian reforms in the Roman Republic ( d. 133 BC )
François-Noël Babeuf ( 23 November 1760 – 27 May 1797 ), known as Gracchus Babeuf ( in tribute to the Roman tribunes of the people and reformers, the Gracchi brothers, and used alongside his self-designation as Tribune ), was a French political agitator and journalist of the Revolutionary period.
* Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus the Roman tribune ( assassination ) ( b. 168 BC )
* Gracchus passes a law requiring the state to provide weapons and equipment for the soldiers in the Roman army.
* Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, Roman consul from 215 to 213 BC
* Roman legions led by Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus defeat Hanno's Carthaginian forces in a battle near Beneventum, thus denying Hannibal much needed reinforcements.
* The Roman law, Lex Oppia, is instituted by Gaius Oppius, a tribune of the plebs during the consulship of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus and Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus.
* Gaius Gracchus, Roman politician, younger brother of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, who, like him, will pursue a popular political agenda that ultimately ends in his death ( d. 121 BC )
* Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, Roman politician who would create turmoil in the Republic through his attempts to legislate agrarian reforms in the Roman Republic ( d. 133 BC )
* The Roman general, Tiberius Gracchus Major, subdues Sardinia, enslaving some of the population.

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