53 BC

Events in 53 BC 1

• 60 BC – 53 BC First Triumvirate — Caesar, Pompey, Crassus Julius Caesar, Pompey the Great and Marcus Licinius Crassus form an informal alliance in 60 BC to dominate Roman politics. Caesar gets the consulship and a command in Gaul; Pompey gets ratification of his eastern settlements and land for his veterans; Crassus gets tax-farming contracts in Asia. The alliance is renewed at the conference of Luca in 56 BC. It begins to disintegrate when Crassus dies at the Battle of Carrhae (53 BC) — defeated by the Parthians, his severed head used as a prop in a performance of Euripides.