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| 70 BC | Born 15 October, at Andes, Mantua. | 78 BC 70 63 60 59 |
Death of Sulla. First consulship of Pompey and Crassus Consulship of Cicero. Catiline conspiracy. Birth of Augustus. First triumvirate. Caesar’s first consulship. |
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| c.55-c.49 | Educated at Cremona and Milan. | 58-49 55 52 |
Caesar in Gaul. Second consulship of Pompey and Crassus. Third consulship of Pompey. |
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| c.48-c.44 | Studies philosophy and rhetoric in Rome | 49-45 44 |
Civil War. Assassination of Caesar. |
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| 43 | Returns to Mantua. Begins Eclogues. | 43 42 |
Second triumvirate. Proscriptions. Battles of Philippi. Antony goes east. Birth of Tiberius. |
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| 41 | Dispossessed of farm. | 41 | Confiscations of property. | |
| c.40-37 | Reinstated and lives in Rome and Campania. | 38-35 34 32 31 |
War against Sextus Pompey. Death of Sallust. Antony divorces Octavia. War declared. Battle of Actium. |
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| 37 | Publication of Eclogues. Introduced to Maecenas. | |||
| 30 | Publication of Georgics. Begins Aeneid. | 30 | Fourth consulship of Octavian. Deaths of Antony and Cleopatra. | |
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Seventh consulship of Octavian, who accepts a share of running the state and assumes the name of Augustus. Agrippa completes the Pantheon. |
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| 23 | Reads parts of Aeneid to Augustus and his family. | 23 | Augustus is ill. He receives wide-reaching powers. Death of Marcellus. First three books of Horace’s Odes. | |
| 19 | Sets out for Greece and Asia. Returns from Athens with Augustus. Dies at Brundisium 20 September. | 22-19 | Visits by Augustus to Greece and Asia Minor. | |