Events
The conference at Luca (April)
Cato returnsSulla steps down from dictatorshipSulla's consulshipSulla becomes private citizenSulla diesCicero's quaestorship (Lilybaeum, Sicily)Consulships of Pompey and CrassusCicero's aedileship
Caesar's quaestorship (Spain)lex Gabinia granting Pompey imperium against the pirateslex Manilia granting Pompey imperium against MithridatesCaesar's aedileshipCato's quaestorshipCicero's consulship
Caesar Pontifex Maximus
lex agrania of Rullus#Pro Rabinio
Trial of Murena
Catilinarian conspiracySenatus consultum ultimum on the conspiratorsThe Bona Dea scandal
Cato's tribuneship
Caesar's praetorship
Pompey returns from the EastTrial of Clodius
Caesar's governship (Further Spain)Caesar returns from Spain
First Triumvirate is formed: Pompey, Crassus and CaesarCaesar's consulship
Pompey marries Julia, caesar's daughter
Clodius adopted into plebeian family
Caesar granted imperium to pacify GaulClodius' tribuneship
Cicero is exiled
Caesar departs for Gaul
Cato is sent to annex CyprusCicero's return from exile
Pompey five years' imperium to stabilise corn supply to Rome
Gang warfare and rioting in RomeSecond consulship of Pompey and Crassus
Caesar given further five year command in Gaul
Pompey given five year command of Spain in absence
Crassus given five year command in SyriaDeath of Julia
Pompey in Rome, governing Spain in absence
Caesar in Gaul and crosses over to Britain
Crassus in Syria for Parthian campaign
Cato's praetorship
Riots in RomeContinued riots in Rome; no consul elected
Death of Crassus at CarrhaeCato fails to become consulCicero's governorship (Cilicia) 51-50BCCurio's tribuneshipTiberius Gracchus killed after his agarian redistribution of land laws.Caesar crosses the Rubicon into Italy
Civil war
Senate is evacuated from Rome with Pompey to Greece; Catp and Cicero support PompeyCaesar's second consulship
Caesar's dictatorship (11 days)
Defeat of Pompey by Caesar at Pharsalus (August)
Death of Pompey in EgyptCaesar's dictatorship in absence
Caesar returns briefly to Italy then sails for North Africa to confront anti-Caesarians led by CatoSuicide of Cato after defeat at Thapsus
Caesar's dictatorship and third consulship; returns to Rome, then leaves for Spain to deal with last anti-CaesariansLast of Pompeians defeated by Caesar at Munda in Spain
Caesar returns to Rome to great honours
Caesar's dictatorship and fourth consulship
Cicero writes eulogy to Cato; Caesar writes Anti-CatoCaesar becomes dictator perpetuo and ssumes fifth consulship
Assassination of Julius Caesar, 15 March (Ides of March)
Octavian named as heir and returns from Epirus
Antony recieves command of Gaul
Cicero starts to deliver the PhilippicsOutbreak of civil war; Mark Antony is declared enemy of the state
Siege of Mutina
Deaths of the consls Hirtius and Pansa
Octavian occupies Rome and assumes consulship (August)
Formation of the Second Triumvirate - Octavian, Antony and Lepidus (November)
Proscriptions
Death of Cicero (7 December)Cicero's prosecution of VerresPeriods
Verres' governorship (Sicily)Clodius killed by Milo
Pompey appointed sole consul
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