Anthony Everitt - Augustus: The Life of Rome’s First Emperor

B.C.

BEFORE 70

Gaius Octavius marries Atia

? 70

Gaius Cilnius Maecenas born

Octavia, Octavius second daughter, born

Consulship of Marcus Tullius Cicero
Conspiracy of Lucius Sergius Catilina

September 23

Gaius Octavius (Augustus) born

C. 62

Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa born

Gaius Octavius (Augustus father) praetor

First Triumvirate formed

Julius Caesar consul

Gaius Octavius dies

5849

Caesar proconsul in Gaul

BEFORE 54

Octavia marries Gaius Claudius Marcellus

Marcus Licinius Crassus invades Parthia; defeated and killed at Carrhae

Pompey the Great sole consul

Civil war begins. Caesar invades Italy, wins campaign in Spain, becomes dictator

Caesar defeats Pompey at Pharsalus in Greece
Pompey killed in Egypt
Caesar installs Cleopatra on Egyptian throne

Caesar defeats republican army in northern Africa
Cato commits suicide

Caesar defeats republican army in Spain

autumn

Octavius at Apollonia

Caesar Dictator for Life

March 15

Caesar assassinated

April

Octavius in Italy
Octavius accepts adoption by Caesar; becomes Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, or Octavian

War at Mutina; Mark Antony defeated
Octavian consul
Mark Antony, Octavian, and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus form Second Triumvirate; Proscription launched; Cicero put to death

Campaign at Philippi; Brutus and Cassius commit suicide
Sextus Pompeius in control of Sicily
Julius Caesar deified
Octavias son, Marcus Claudius Marcellus (Marcellus), born
Tiberius Claudius Nero, son of Livia Drusilla and Tiberius Claudius Nero, (Tiberius) born

Lucius Antonius besieged at Perusia
Antony meets Cleopatra, winters at Alexandria

Perusia falls
Marcellus, Octavias husband, dies
Octavian marries Scribonia
Parthians invade Syria
Calenus dies in Gaul
Treaty of Brundisium; Antony marries Octavia

Treaty of Misenum
Ventidius defeats the Parthians
Agrippa campaigns in Gaul
Octavians daughter, Julia, born

Triumvirate renewed
Nero Claudius Drusus (Drusus) born

January 17

Octavian marries Livia Drusilla
Antony dismisses Ventidius
Sextus Pompeius defeats Octavian off Cumae and in straits of Messana

Virgils Eclogues published
Treaty of Tarentum

After initial defeat (August), Octavian defeats Sextus Pompeius at Naulochus (September 3)
Lepidus dropped from Triumvirate
Antonys Parthian expedition
Octavian granted tribunicia sacrosanctitas

Sextus Pompeius killed
Octavian campaigns in the Balkans

Antony annexes Armenia
Donations of Alexandria

Octavian consul (2), Triumvirate lapses at end of year
Agrippa aedile
Tiberius Claudius Nero (father) dies

Antony divorces Octavia
Octavian publishes Antonys will
Consuls leave Rome for Antony
Oath of loyalty to Octavian

Octavian consul (3)
Battle of Actium

Octavian consul (4)
Octavian captures Alexandria; Antony and Cleopatra commit suicide

Octavian consul (5)
Octavians triple triumph
Temple of Julius Caesar and the Curia Julia dedicated
Marcus Licinius Crassus pacifies Thrace

Octavian consul (6)
Review of Senate
Temple of Apollo on the Palatine dedicated
Mausoleum of Augustus begun

Octavian consul (7)

January

First constitutional settlement; Octavian named Augustus; granted a large provincia for ten years
Agrippa builds Pantheon

2724

Augustus in Gaul and Spain

Augustus consul (8)
Dismissal and death of Gaius Cornelius Gallus
Expedition to Arabia Felix

Augustus consul (9)
Julia marries Marcellus
Augustus falls ill in Spain, convalesces

? 2423

Trial of Marcus Primus and conspiracy of Fannius Caepio and Aulus Terentius Varro Murena

Augustus consul (10)

Augustus consul (11)
Augustus at Rome, falls ill
Second constitutional settlement: Augustus resigns consulship, receives imperium proconsulare maius and tribunicia potestas
Death of Marcellus
Horaces Odes (three books) published

2321

Agrippa with enhanced imperium in the east

2219

Augustus in the east

Agrippa marries Julia, goes to Gaul

Augustus negotiates entente with Parthia; Tiberius in Armenia
Gaius born to Julia
Rufus Egnatius praetor

C. 19

Agrippas daughter, Julia, born

Egnatius bids for the consulship
Virgil dies
Augustus, back at Rome, receives consular powers
Agrippa subdues Spanish tribes

Renewal of Augustus imperium maius for five years
Renewal of Agrippas imperium for five years, plus grant of tribunicia potestas
Review of Senate

1817

Social and moral reforms (leges Juliae)

Lucius born to Julia, Augustus adopts Gaius and Lucius
Celebration of the Ludi Saeculares

1613

Augustus in Gaul; Agrippa in the east

Tiberius and Drusus campaign in the Alps
Drusus son, Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus(Germanicus), born

Tiberius consul (1)
Agrippa granted imperium maius, and tribunicia potestas renewed
Theater of Marcellus and Ara Pacis dedicated

1312 winter

Agrippa in Pannonia to suppress threatened rebellion

Lepidus dies, Augustus succeeds him as pontifex maximus

March

Agrippa dies
Agrippa Postumus born

Tiberius campaigns in Pannonia; Drusus in Germany

Tiberius divorces Vipsania and marries Julia

Drusus son, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus (Claudius), born