Imperial Image Dates Flashcards
The Assassination of Julius Caesar
44 BC
Octavian meets MA in Rome for the first time after Caesar’s death
44 BC
Julius Caesar comet sighting
44 BC
Octavian/JC aureus prescribed source
43 BC
The senate declares war against Antony, Octavian fights against Antony at the Battle of Mutina alongside consuls Hurtius and Pansa (who both die)
April 43 BC
Octavian marches on Rome and demands the consulship
43 BC
Octavian becomes consul
August 43 BC
Lex Titia laws passed legitimising the second triumvirate, giving them extraordinary powers
43 BC
proscriptions begin
43 BC
JC declared a god
1 Jan 42 BC
Octavian and Antony defeat Brutus and Cassius at the battle of Philippi
October 42 BC
The Philippics speeches made by Cicero against Antony (they hail Octavian as champion of the republic)
43 BC
the second triumvirate seize land across Italy to give to war veterans
42 BC
Tiberius is born
42 BC
Octavian fights the Perusine war against Lucius Antonius and Fulvia (MA’s brother and wife
41 BC
Propertius Elegies 1.22 - bemoans the effect of the Perusine war on his hometown (not prescribed)
41 BC
Treaty of Brundisium (the three triumvirs deal out parts of the empire)
40 BC
Antony marries Octavia
40BC
julia the elder born
39BC
octavian divorces scribonia and marries livia
39BC
pact made w sextus pompey to end grain blockade
39BC
octavian starts war with sextus pompey
38BC
antony marries cleopatra
37BC
octavian and agrippa invade sicily against sext pomp
36BC
lepidus is kicked out of the triumvirate for attemping to take over sicily (his men mutiny before he can - convinced by oct)
36BC
oct’s dalmation campaign
35BC
the donations of alexandria
34BC
antony tries to declare caesarion jc’s true heir
33BC
oct reads antony’s will to the senate after stealing it from the temple of vesta
32BC
work begins on the mausoleum of augustus
32BC
the senate declares war against cleopatra, electing oct to lead it
32BC
pax denarius
32-29BC
battle of actium
31BC
head of livia
31BC
oct invades egypt
30BC
antony and cleopatra’s deaths
1st and 12th august 30BC
epodes 9 by horace
30BC
kalabasha gate relief
30BC
triple triumph
29BC
arch of augustus to commemorate triple triumph
29BC
octavian does a census of the senate
28 BC
the opening of the temple of Apollo Palatinus on the Palatine Hill
28 BC
scroll aureus
28BC
first settlement
27BC
clipeus virutis
27BC
augustus on campaign in Gaul
27 BC
Julia marries Marcellus
25BC
Augustus closes the gates of the Temple of Janus after returning from Gaul
25Bc
augustus nearly dies
23 BC
marcellus dies
23BC
second settlement
23BC
propertius 3.11 woman’s power
23BC
horace 1.37 cleopatra
23BC
horace 3.6 moral decadence
23BC
horace 3.14 augustus returns
23BC
Augustus refuses the dictatorship
22BC
Agrippa marries Julia
21 BC
Parthian standards!!! returned!!!
20Bc
Gaius is born
20Bc
Prima Porta (bronze original)
20BC
forum of augustus construction begins
20BC
propertius 3.4 war and peace
20BC
propertius 3.12 chaste and faithful galla
20BC
julia the younger born
19BC
third settlement
19BC
virgil dies
19BC
comet denarius
19-18BC
leges iuliae
18BC
lucius is born
17BC
augustus adopts his grandsons
17BC
saecular games
17BC
carmen saeculare horace
17BC
actian games at Nikopolis
16BC
propertius 4.6 temple of palatine apollo
16BC
aeneid published
15BC
work on the ara pacis begins
13BC
horace 4.15 to augustus
13BC
horace 4.4 drusus and claudians
13BC
death of agrippa
12BC
death of lepidus
12BC
augustus elected pontifex maximus
12BC
tiberius marries julia the elder
11BC
dedication of the ara pacis
9BC
theatre of marcellus opened
9BC
maecenas dies
8BC
month of Sextilis renamed august
8BC
gaius and lucius named princeps iuventatus
5BC
gaius and lucius aureus
2BC-4AD
augustus declared pater patriae
2BC
julia the elder exiled
2BC
forum of augustus opened (incomplete) and temple to mars ultor dedicated
2BC
lucius dies
AD 2
gaius takes consulship for the first tiem
AD1
the death of gaius
AD4
augustus adopts tiberius
Ad4
julia the younger exiled
8BC
metamorphoses
8BC
agrippa postumus exiled
AD9
battle of teutoburg forest
AD9
lex papia poppeia
AD9
res gestae finished
AD13
augustus dies
AD14
sebasteion at aphrodisias
started AD20, completed AD60
suetonius life of augustus
AD121