{"slug": "marcus-licinius-crassus", "label": "Marcus Licinius Crassus", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Licinius_Crassus", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q175121", "qid": "Q175121", "description": "member of the First Triumvirate", "entries": 14, "years": 11, "span": [-114, -19], "span_label": ["115 BCE", "20 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Crassus"], "related": [{"slug": "pompey", "label": "Pompey", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "julius-caesar", "label": "Julius Caesar", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "parthian-empire", "label": "Parthian Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "syria", "label": "Syria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-republic", "label": "Roman Republic", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tuscany", "label": "Tuscany", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pisa", "label": "Pisa", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lucca", "label": "Lucca", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-senate", "label": "Roman Senate", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bruttians", "label": "Bruttians", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "parthia", "label": "Parthia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "augustus", "label": "Augustus", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -114, "year_label": "115 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Marcus Licinius Crassus, Roman general and consul (d. 53 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1328732522#Births", "title": "115 BC", "revid": 1328732522, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -71, "year_label": "72 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Autumn – Spartacus and his followers withdraw to the Bruttium peninsula. At one juncture he contemplates attacking Rome – but moves south. The Senate sends Marcus Licinius Crassus against Spartacus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1338545736#Roman_Republic", "title": "72 BC", "revid": 1338545736, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -70, "year_label": "71 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Third Servile War ends; Slave rebellion under leadership of Spartacus is crushed by a Roman army under Marcus Licinius Crassus. Slaves taken prisoner are crucified naked along the Via Appia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1212466388#Roman_Republic", "title": "71 BC", "revid": 1212466388, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -66, "year_label": "67 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Julius Caesar reconciles with Pompey and Crassus", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366933711#Roman_Republic", "title": "67 BC", "revid": 1366933711, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -59, "year_label": "60 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Creation of the First Triumvirate, an informal political alliance between Julius Caesar, Pompey the Great and Marcus Licinius Crassus (or 59 BC).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359808394#Roman_Republic", "title": "60 BC", "revid": 1359808394, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -58, "year_label": "59 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The First Triumvirate: Caesar, Pompey and Crassus form an unofficial alliance (or 60 BC).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1327068186#Roman_Republic", "title": "59 BC", "revid": 1327068186, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -55, "year_label": "56 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The three Roman politician-generals of the First Triumvirate — Caesar, Pompey and Crassus — meet at the Luca Conference at the town of Luca (modern Lucca, in Tuscany), near Pisa, where they renewed their fraying political alliance, and further cemented the three men's increasing consolidation of power in the Roman Republic.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325862293#Roman_Republic", "title": "56 BC", "revid": 1325862293, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -54, "year_label": "55 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Consuls Marcus Licinius Crassus and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus pass the Lex Trebonia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364737843#Roman_Republic", "title": "55 BC", "revid": 1364737843, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -54, "year_label": "55 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Consuls: Marcus Licinius Crassus and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364737843#Roman_Republic", "title": "55 BC", "revid": 1364737843, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -53, "year_label": "54 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Crassus arrives in Syria as proconsul and invades the Parthian Empire, initiating the Roman–Persian Wars, which were to last nearly seven centuries.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1327053231#Roman_Republic", "title": "54 BC", "revid": 1327053231, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -52, "year_label": "53 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Parthian Empire achieved a decisive victory against Rome at the Battle of Carrhae, where General Surena defeated and killed Roman triumvir Marcus Licinius Crassus. According to some historical interpretations, the Mahestan (Parthian noble council) supported preparations for the defense of the empire and advised the king during the military mobilization.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325862163#Parthian_Empire", "title": "53 BC", "revid": 1325862163, "section": "Events › By place › Parthian Empire"}}, {"year": -52, "year_label": "53 BCE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": null, "text": "Crassus sacks the Temple of Hierapolis and the Temple in Jerusalem on his way to engage the Parthians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325862163#Roman_Republic", "title": "53 BC", "revid": 1325862163, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -52, "year_label": "53 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 6", "text": "May 6 – Marcus Licinius Crassus, Roman politician and general — executed after the Battle of Carrhae", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325862163#Deaths", "title": "53 BC", "revid": 1325862163, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -19, "year_label": "20 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 12", "text": "May 12 – Emperor Augustus Caesar negotiates a peace with Parthia, making Armenia a buffer zone between the two major powers. The captured eagles of Marcus Licinius Crassus and Mark Antony are returned.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341406329#Roman_Empire", "title": "20 BC", "revid": 1341406329, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}]}