Examples of Mark Antony in the following topics:
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- Octavian found Mark Antony, Julius Caesar's
former colleague and the current consul of Rome,
in an uneasy truce with Caesar’s assassins who had been granted general amnesty
for their part in the plot.
- Mark Antony began amassing political support and
Octavian set about rivaling it.
- Octavian eventually reached an uneasy truce with Mark Antony and Marcus Lepidus in October 43 BCE, and together, the three formed the Second Triumvirate to defeat the assassins of Caesar.
- Civil war between Antony and Octavian was averted in 40 BCE when Antony married Octavian's sister Octavia Minor.
- Antony was defeated by Octavian at the naval Battle of Actium the same year.
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- Caesar refused and marked his defiance in 49 BCE by crossing the Rubicon (shallow river in northern Italy) with a legion.
- Mark Antony, one of Caesar’s
generals and administrator of Italy during Caesar’s campaigns abroad, learned
such a plan existed the night before and attempted to intercept Caesar, but the
plotters anticipated this and arranged to meet him outside the site of the
session and detain him him there.
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- During the First Settlement, Augustus modified the Roman
political system to make it more palatable to the senatorial classes, eschewing
the open authoritarianism exhibited by Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony.
- The Pax Romana started after Augustus, then Octavian, met and defeated Mark Antony in the Battle of Actium in 31 BCE.
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- Egypt became a Roman province after the defeat of Marc Antony and Queen Cleopatra VII in 30 BCE.
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- Bacteria and protists were first observed with a microscope by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek in 1676, initiating the scientific field of microbiology.
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- The Treaty of Paris of 1763 between Great Britain, France, and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, formally ended the Seven Years' War and marked the beginning of an era of British dominance outside Europe.
- The signing of the treaty formally ended the Seven Years' War, known as the French and Indian War in the North American theater, and marked the beginning of an era of British dominance outside Europe.
- Together with the Treaty of Paris, it marked the end of the Seven Years' War.
- The Treaty, although it restored the prewar status quo, marked the ascendancy of Prussia as a leading European power.
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- The conclusion of the Dacian Wars marked a triumph for Rome and its armies.
- The conclusion of the Dacian Wars marked the beginning of a period of sustained growth and relative peace in Rome.
- Despite his own great reputation as a military administrator, Hadrian's reign was marked by a general lack of documented major military conflicts, apart from the Second Roman–Jewish War.
- The most famous of these is the massive Hadrian's Wall in Great Britain, built on stone and doubled on its rear by a ditch (Vallum Hadriani), which marked the boundary between a strictly military zone and the province.
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- The early years of Peter the Great were marked by power struggles among multiple heirs to the Russian tsardom as well as Peter's European travels that greatly inspired his modernizing reforms.
- The Romanovs took over Russia in 1613 and the first decades of their reign were marked by attempts to restore peace, both internally and with Russia's rivals, most notably Poland and Sweden.
- Peter's childhood was marked by power struggles between the families of Alexis I's first and second wives.
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- Elizabeth's reign was marked by domestic reforms that continued her father's, Peter the Great's, efforts as well as strengthening Russia's position as a major participant in the European imperial rivalry.
- During the reign of her cousin, Elizabeth was gathering support in the background but after the death of Empress Anna, the regency of Anna Leopoldovna (Empress Anna's niece) for the infant Ivan VI was marked by high taxes and economic problems.
- She often visited the regiments, marking special events with the officers and acting as godmother to their children.
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- The Third Intermediate Period (c. 1069-664 BCE) spanned the Twenty-first to Twenty-sixth Dynasties, and was marked by internal divisions within Egypt, as well as conquest and rule by foreigners.
- It was marked by a division of the state for much of the period, as well as conquest and rule by foreigners.