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Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (c. 163 – 133 BC) was a Roman politician best known for his agrarian reform law entailing the transfer of land from the Roman state and wealthy landowners to poorer citizens.
Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus was born c. 163 BC. [31] His younger brother Gaius was born c. 154 BC. [32] They were the sons of the Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus who had been consul 177 [33] and 163 BC [34] as well as censor in 169 BC. [35] [36] He had triumphed twice in 178 and 175 BC. [37]
Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (c. 220 BC [1] – 154 BC [2]) was a Roman politician and general of the 2nd century BC. He served two consulships, one in 177 [ 3 ] and one 163 BC, [ 4 ] and was awarded two triumphs . [ 5 ]
The tribune Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus imposed his veto on all government functions in 133 BC, when the senate attempted to block his agrarian reforms by imposing the veto of another tribune. [ 8 ] Tribunes also possessed the authority to enforce the right of provocatio ad populum , a precursor of the modern right of habeas corpus .
The most famous lex agraria was that of the plebeian tribune Tiberius Gracchus, passed in 133 BC, which allotted public lands across Italy to rural plebs. [3] Such laws were not without precedent, such as the lex Flaminia of 232 BC which authorised viritane distributions of lands in Cisalpine Gaul and Picenum.
In 137 BC, 20,000 Romans surrendered to the Celtiberians of Numantia (population between 4,000 and 8,000). The young Roman officer Tiberius Gracchus, as quaestor, saved the Roman army from destruction by signing a peace treaty with the Numantines, an action generally reserved for a legate. Modern reconstruction of the Celtiberian houses in Numantia
Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, who was elected to the priesthood in 203 BC at a very young age, and who died in the plague of 174 BC. [citation needed] Tiberius Veturius Gracchus Sempronianus, who replaced his dead kinsman as augur, and whose name indicates that he was born a Sempronius and adopted into the patrician Veturii. [citation needed]
Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (consul 215 BC), son of the above. Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (d. 174 BC), son of the above, elected to the priesthood in 203 BC at a very young age. Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (consul 177 BC) (c. 217 BC –c. 150 BC), also known as Tiberius Gracchus the Elder, son of Publius Sempronius Gracchus. Tiberius ...