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