Timeline Flashcards
Dates and events
63 bc
Octavian is born
44 bc
- Caesar dies
- declared heir
- arrives in Rome
- games of Venus genetrix
- Caesars commet
43 bc
- Battle of mutina
- demands consulship
- 2nd triumvirate (Octavian, Antony, Lepidus)
- proscriptions
- marriage to Claudia
42 bC
- Caesar is deified
* battle of phillipi against Brutus and Cassius
41 bc
- veteran resettlement
* war outbreak with Lucius Antonius
40 BC
- defeat Lucius Antonius at perusia
- treaty of Brundisium
- empire divided (Lepidus gets Africa)
- marriage to scribonia
39 bc
- treaty of Misenum sextus, control over sicily
* Julia is born
38 BC
- marriage to Livia, mother of Tiberius and drusus
* war begins against Pompey for grain blockades
36 BC
- Pompey defeated by Agrippa (Naulocus)
- Lepidus is banished, maintaining his titles
- Octavian gets tribunician powers
35-34 bc
- Greek campaign
* annex of Armenia
33 bc
Second consulship
32 bc
- Octavian denounces Antony
- Antony divorces Octavia
- Octavian takes Antony’s will from Vestal virgins and reads it publicly
- war against Cleopatra declared
31 bc
- battle of Actium
* 3rd consulship, held until 23 bc
30 bc
- death of Antony and Cleopatra in Alexandria
- death of Caesarian and Antyllus
- annex of Egypt
29 bc
- Triple triumph: Dalmatia, Actium, Egypt
- dedication of public buildings
- temple of Divi Julius
- closure of the gates of Janus Quirinus
28 bc
- sixth consulship with Agrippa
- princeps senatus
- first census
27 bc
- First constitutional settlement/ restoration of the Republic - resigns yet still runs the state, given the name Augustus
- princeps
25 bc
Julia marries Marcellus
23 bc
- second constitutional settlement - relinquish consulship, tribunicial powers for life, renewed imperium
- heir Marcellus dies
22 bc
- refuses dictatorship
* oversees coin provision
21 bc
Agrippa marries Julia
20 bc
Settlement with Armenia and Parthia
19 bc
Death of Virgil rip virgin
18 bc
Agrippa gets tribunicial powers
17 bc
Augustus adopts Gaius and Lucius
16 bc
Conquest in the north with Tiberius and drusus
13 bc
• death of Lepidus
12 bc
- Augustus becomes pontifex maximus
* death of Agrippa
11 bc
- . Tiberius marries his stepsister, Julia
* Octavia dies
9 bc
- Ara pacis dedication
* Drusus dies
7 bc
Tiberius has triumph for Germany
5 bc
12th consulship
2 bc
- 13th consulship
- pater patriae
- Julia banished for adultery
2 ad
death of Lucius
4 ad
- death of Gaius
* adoption of Tiberius
14 ad
death of Augustus