Cicero

CHRONOLOGY

BC

109

Birth of Titus Pomponius Atticus

106

Birth of Marcus Tullius Cicero. Birth of Cnaeus Pompeius

ca. 103

Birth of Quintus Tullius Cicero

100

Birth of Caius Julius Caesar

91–89

War of the Allies

89–85

First War against Mithridates, King of Pontus

88–82

Civil war

82–79

Sulla’s Dictatorship

before 81

Cicero writes

Topics for Speeches (De inventione)

81

Cicero opens his career as an advocate

79

Defense of Sextus Roscius Amerinus

ca. 79

Cicero marries Terentia

79–77

Cicero tours Greece and Asia Minor

ca. 76–75

Birth of Cicero’s daughter, Tullia

75

Cicero Quaestor in Sicily. He joins the Senate

70

Consulship of Pompey and Marcus Licinius Crassus. Cicero prosecutes Verres

ca. 70

Quintus marries Pomponia

69

Cicero Aedile

67

Pompey’s campaign against Mediterranean pirates. Birth of Cicero’s nephew, Quintus Tullius Cicero. Tullia engaged to Caius Calpurnius Piso Frugi

66

Cicero Praetor

66–62

Pompey campaigns against Mithridates

65

Birth of Cicero’s son, Marcus Tullius Cicero

63

Cicero Consul. He puts down the conspiracy of Catilina. Birth of Caius Octavius, later Caius Julius Caesar Octavius (Octavian)

62

Quintus Praetor. Tullia marries Calpurnius Piso

61–59

Quintus governor of Asia

60

Alliance among Caesar, Pompey and Crassus (the First Triumvirate)

59

Julius Caesar Consul

58

Publius Clodius Pulcher Tribune

58–49

Caesar governor of Gaul. The Gallic War

58–57

Cicero in exile in Greece

57

Death of Calpurnius Piso

56

Caesar meets Pompey in Luca and renews the First Triumvirate

55

Second Consulship of Pompey and Crassus. Tullia marries Furius Crassipes. Cicero writes

The Ideal Orator (De oratore)

54–52

Quintus with Caesar in Gaul

54

Cicero starts writing

On the State (De re publica;

published 51)

53

Crassus campaigns against the Parthians. Death of Crassus at Carrhae. Cicero frees his slave Tiro

52

Murder of Publius Clodius Pulcher. Pompey sole Consul

52/51

Tullia and Crassipes are divorced

52–43

Cicero writes

On Law (De legibus)

51–50

Cicero governor of Cilicia

50

Tullia marries Publius Cornelius Dolabella

49–45

Civil war

49–48

Cicero at Pompey’s headquarters in Greece

48

Defeat of Pompey at the battle of Pharsalus. Murder of Pompey. Cicero returns to Italy. Death of Marcus Caelius Rufus

48–44

Dictatorship of Julius Caesar

47

Cicero pardoned by Caesar

46

Suicide of Marcus Porcius Cato. Cicero divorces Terentia. He marries Publilia

45

Death of Tullia. Cicero divorces Publilia. Divorce of Quintus and Pomponia. Cicero writes

Hortensius; Academic Treatises (Academica); On Supreme Good and Evil (De finibus bonorum et malorum); Conversations at Tusculum (Tusculanae disputationes); The Nature of the Gods (De natura deorum)

44

Assassination of Julius Caesar. Cicero writes

Foretelling the Future (De divinatione); Destiny (De fato); Duties (De officiis)

44–43

Siege of Mutina

44/43

Suicide of Dolabella

43

Battles at Mutina. Alliance among Mark Antony, Octavian (Caius Julius Caesar Octavianus, later the Emperor Augustus) and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus. Quintus and his son put to death. Cicero put to death

42

Suicides of Caius Cassius Longinus and Marcus Junius Brutus at Philippi

32

Death of Atticus

31

Octavian’s victory over Antony at Actium

30

Suicides of Mark Antony and Cleopatra

27

Title of Augustus conferred on Octavian

AD

14

Death of Augustus