Timeline

• 133


  Tiberius Gracchus' land reform bill.
• 123


  Gaius Gracchus' tribuneship.
• 83


  - Sulla begins his proscriptions.

  - He orders around 1,500 nobles to be killed.
• 82


  Sulla begins his dictatorship's reforms.
• 80


  - Cicero defends Roscius.
• 78


  - Lepidus passes the lex frumentaria.
• 77


  - Lepidus marches on Rome and is defeated by Pompey.

  - Pompey is given imperium to defeat Sertorius.
• 75


  - Cicero's Sicily quaestorship.

  - The ban on tribunes holding further office is revoked.
• 73


  - Verres' Sicily governorship.

  - Crassus defeats Spartacus.
• 70


  - Consulship of Pompey and Crassus.

  - The senate spends the year blocking the proposals of the two consuls.

  - Cicero prosecutes Verres.
• 69


  - Cicero is aedile.
• 67


  - lex Gabinia.

  - Cato is military tribune.
• 66


  - lex Manilia.
• 65


  - Caesar is aedile.

  - The optimates reject Crassus' proposal to annex Egypt.
• 64


  - Cato is urban quaestor.

  - collegia are banned.
• 63


  - Cicero is consul.

  - lex agraria.

  - pro Rabirio.

  - Catiline conspiracy.

  - SCU is passed to combat Catiline.

  - pro Murena.

  - Caesar is pontifex maximus.
• 62


  - bona dea scandal.

  - Cato is tribune and quadruples the grain dole.

  - Nepos attempts to recall Pompey.

  - Cicero letter to Pompey.

  - Cato blocks Pompey's request to delay the consular elections for him.
• 60


  - Formation of the first triumvirate.

  - Lucullus stalls the ratification of Pompey's Eastern settlements.

  - Cato filibusters Caesar's proposal to stand for the consulship in absentia.
• 59


  - Caesar is consul.

  - lex Campania.

  - Cicero writes to Atticus.

  - Caesar is granted imperium.
• 58


  - Clodius is tribune.

  - collegia are legalised.

  - Grain dole is made free.

  - Cicero is exiled.

  - Cato is sent to Cyprus.
• 57


  - Cicero returns from exile.
• 56


  - Pompey forms armed gangs.

  - pro Caelio.

  - Conference of Luca.
• 55


  - Pompey and Crassus are consuls.

  - imperium is granted to them and Caesar.
• 53


  - No consul is elected.

  - Martial law is declared.

  Cicero writes to Curio.
• 52


  - Milo kills Clodius.

  - Pompey is appointed sole consul.

  - Pompey proposes a bill for Caesar to stand for the consulship in absentia.
• 51


  - Cato loses the consular elections.

  - Cicero is governor in Cilicia.

  - Cicero is awarded a triumph.
• 50


  - Cicero writes to Caelius.

  - Curio proposes that Caesar and Pompey have their imperium revoked.

  - Pompey assumes sole command of the Italian forces.
• 49


  - Mark Antony is tribune.

  - SCU is passed.

  - Caesar crosses the Rubicon.

  - Cicero writes to Caesar and Atticus.

  - Cicero joins Pompey's side of the civil war.
• 48


  - Pompey is defeated at the Battle of Pharsalus.

  - Caesar is appointed dictator.
• 46


  - Caesar is appointed dictator for 10 years.

  - Cato kills himself.
• 45


  - Cicero writes to Atticus about Caesar.
• 44


  - Caesar is dictator in perpetuo.

  - Caesar is assassinated.

  - Cicero writes to Atticus.

  - Cicero delivers his first and second Philippics.
• 43


  - Cicero writes to Trebonius.

  - Civil war begins.

  - Cicero writes to Plancus.

  - Octavian is appointed consul.

  - The second triumvirate is formed.

  - Cicero is killed.