Cleopatra's Reign- Timeline Flashcards
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Ptolomy Auletes expelled from Egypt
Cleopatra VI becomes Queen
69
Birth
56
Berenice IV becomes queen
55
Gabinius restores Auletes to the throne
Berenice IV executed
51
Ptolomy Auletes dies
Cleopatra VII and Ptolomy XIII become rulers
Cleopatra appears alone on coins
49
Cleopatra forced to flee Egypt
She tries to organise an army
48
Ptolomy murders Pompey
Caesar arrives in Egypt
Cleopatra returns to Alexandria
Caesar organises the joint rule of Cleopatra and Ptolomy
Ptolomy’s advisers story the Alexandrine war
47
Ptolomy XIII defeated and drowned
Cleopatra made joint ruler with Ptolomy XIV
Only Cleopatra’s head appears on coins
Caesarion is born
46-44
Cleopatra into Rome
Her statue placed in the temple of Venus Genetrix
Caesar’s Egyptian triumph
44
Cleopatra leaves Rome
Ptolomy XIV dies
Ptolomy XV Caesarion becomes co ruler
43
Cleopatra sends help to Cassius (never reaches him)
Cleopatra supports the second triumvirate
41
Antony and Cleopatra meet in Tarsus
Arisnoe killed in Ephesus
41-40
Antony spends the winter in Alexandria
Parthian invasion
40
Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene born
Perusine war
Antony Marie’s Octavia
38
Ventidius defeats the Parthians and forces them to retreat to Syria
Antony and Octavia celebrate Panathenaic games in Athens
Antony proclaimed Neos Dionusios in Ephesus
Settlement in the East
C,soap tea given several old Ptolemaic possession