BC
|
109 |
Birth of Titus Pomponius Atticus |
|
106 |
Birth of Marcus Tullius Cicero. Birth of Cnaeus Pompeius |
|
ca. 103 |
Birth of Quintus Tullius Cicero |
|
100 |
Birth of Caius Julius Caesar |
|
91–89 |
War of the Allies |
|
89–85 |
First War against Mithridates, King of Pontus |
|
88–82 |
Civil war |
|
82–79 |
Sulla’s Dictatorship |
|
before 81 |
Cicero writes Topics for Speeches (De inventione) |
|
81 |
Cicero opens his career as an advocate |
|
79 |
Defense of Sextus Roscius Amerinus |
|
ca. 79 |
Cicero marries Terentia |
|
79–77 |
Cicero tours Greece and Asia Minor |
|
ca. 76–75 |
Birth of Cicero’s daughter, Tullia |
|
75 |
Cicero Quaestor in Sicily. He joins the Senate |
|
70 |
Consulship of Pompey and Marcus Licinius Crassus. Cicero prosecutes Verres |
|
ca. 70 |
Quintus marries Pomponia |
|
69 |
Cicero Aedile |
|
67 |
Pompey’s campaign against Mediterranean pirates. Birth of Cicero’s nephew, Quintus Tullius Cicero. Tullia engaged to Caius Calpurnius Piso Frugi |
|
66 |
Cicero Praetor |
|
66–62 |
Pompey campaigns against Mithridates |
|
65 |
Birth of Cicero’s son, Marcus Tullius Cicero |
|
63 |
Cicero Consul. He puts down the conspiracy of Catilina. Birth of Caius Octavius, later Caius Julius Caesar Octavius (Octavian) |
|
62 |
Quintus Praetor. Tullia marries Calpurnius Piso |
|
61–59 |
Quintus governor of Asia |
|
60 |
Alliance among Caesar, Pompey and Crassus (the First Triumvirate) |
|
59 |
Julius Caesar Consul |
|
58 |
Publius Clodius Pulcher Tribune |
|
58–49 |
Caesar governor of Gaul. The Gallic War |
|
58–57 |
Cicero in exile in Greece |
|
57 |
Death of Calpurnius Piso |
|
56 |
Caesar meets Pompey in Luca and renews the First Triumvirate |
|
55 |
Second Consulship of Pompey and Crassus. Tullia marries Furius Crassipes. Cicero writes The Ideal Orator (De oratore) |
|
54–52 |
Quintus with Caesar in Gaul |
|
54 |
Cicero starts writing On the State (De re publica; published 51) |
|
53 |
Crassus campaigns against the Parthians. Death of Crassus at Carrhae. Cicero frees his slave Tiro |
|
52 |
Murder of Publius Clodius Pulcher. Pompey sole Consul |
|
52/51 |
Tullia and Crassipes are divorced |
|
52–43 |
Cicero writes On Law (De legibus) |
|
51–50 |
Cicero governor of Cilicia |
|
50 |
Tullia marries Publius Cornelius Dolabella |
|
49–45 |
Civil war |
|
49–48 |
Cicero at Pompey’s headquarters in Greece |
|
48 |
Defeat of Pompey at the battle of Pharsalus. Murder of Pompey. Cicero returns to Italy. Death of Marcus Caelius Rufus |
|
48–44 |
Dictatorship of Julius Caesar |
|
47 |
Cicero pardoned by Caesar |
|
46 |
Suicide of Marcus Porcius Cato. Cicero divorces Terentia. He marries Publilia |
|
45 |
Death of Tullia. Cicero divorces Publilia. Divorce of Quintus and Pomponia. Cicero writes Hortensius; Academic Treatises (Academica); On Supreme Good and Evil (De finibus bonorum et malorum); Conversations at Tusculum (Tusculanae disputationes); The Nature of the Gods (De natura deorum) |
|
44 |
Assassination of Julius Caesar. Cicero writes Foretelling the Future (De divinatione); Destiny (De fato); Duties (De officiis) |
|
44–43 |
Siege of Mutina |
|
44/43 |
Suicide of Dolabella |
|
43 |
Battles at Mutina. Alliance among Mark Antony, Octavian (Caius Julius Caesar Octavianus, later the Emperor Augustus) and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus. Quintus and his son put to death. Cicero put to death |
|
42 |
Suicides of Caius Cassius Longinus and Marcus Junius Brutus at Philippi |
|
32 |
Death of Atticus |
|
31 |
Octavian’s victory over Antony at Actium |
|
30 |
Suicides of Mark Antony and Cleopatra |
|
27 |
Title of Augustus conferred on Octavian |
|
AD |
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|
14 |
Death of Augustus |