Tiberius Gracchus

Tiberius Gracchus, in full Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, was a Roman tribune of the plebs in 133 BCE. He passed a law to redistribute public land to poor citizens over the Senate's opposition and then sought a second term. A band of senators led by Scipio Nasica clubbed him to death, the first open political killing in Rome for centuries, which began a century of political violence.