{"slug": "cleopatra-vii", "label": "Cleopatra VII", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra_VII", "wikidata": null, "qid": null, "description": null, "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [-47, -30], "span_label": ["48 BCE", "31 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "mark-antony", "label": "Mark Antony", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "caesarion", "label": "Caesarion", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "egypt", "label": "Egypt", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "iran", "label": "Iran", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "octavia-the-younger", "label": "Octavia the Younger", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sicily", "label": "Sicily", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "gaul", "label": "Gaul", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-senate", "label": "Roman Senate", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "augustus", "label": "Augustus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "hispania", "label": "Hispania", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sardinia", "label": "Sardinia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "alexandria", "label": "Alexandria", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -47, "year_label": "48 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Queen Cleopatra VII returns to the palace rolled into a Persian carpet and has it presented to Caesar by her servant. The Egyptian princess, only twenty-one years old, becomes his mistress.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1300612578#Egypt", "title": "48 BC", "revid": 1300612578, "section": "Events › By place › Egypt"}}, {"year": -46, "year_label": "47 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 13", "text": "January 13 – Queen Cleopatra VII promotes her younger brother Ptolemy XIV of Egypt to co-ruler.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1209881860#Egypt", "title": "47 BC", "revid": 1209881860, "section": "Events › By place › Egypt"}}, {"year": -45, "year_label": "46 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Caesar's erstwhile mistress, Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt, and his son by her, Caesarion, take up residence in one of the dictator's estates on the Tiber.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361069033#Roman_Republic", "title": "46 BC", "revid": 1361069033, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -40, "year_label": "41 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Mark Antony meets Cleopatra VII in Tarsus (Cilicia) and forms an alliance. He returns to Alexandria with her and they become lovers in the winter of 41–40 BC. To safeguard herself and Caesarion, she has Antony order the execution of her (half) sister Arsinoe IV, who is living at the temple of Artemis in Ephesus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267079508#Egypt", "title": "41 BC", "revid": 1267079508, "section": "Events › By place › Egypt"}}, {"year": -35, "year_label": "36 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October", "text": "October – Antony abandons the siege of Phraaspa (near Maragheh, Iran). He retreats, loses many men to disease and starvation in the subsequent retreat to Egypt, and marries Cleopatra VII while still married to Octavia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372976843#Roman_Republic", "title": "36 BC", "revid": 1372976843, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -31, "year_label": "32 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July", "text": "July – The Roman Senate declares war upon Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII. Octavian Caesar is proclaimed dux and the West - Gallic and Spanish provinces, Africa, Sicily and Sardinia - swear an oath (sacramentum) of loyalty to him. In order to assure this oath, Octavian forces the high priest of the Vestal Virgins in Rome to hand over Antony's will, which contains information about the Roman-conquered territories as kingdoms and plans to build a tomb in Alexandria for him and Cleopatra.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325920749#Roman_Republic", "title": "32 BC", "revid": 1325920749, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -30, "year_label": "31 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 2", "text": "September 2 – Roman Civil War: Battle of Actium: Off the western coast of Greece, Octavian Caesar defeats naval forces under Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371049882#Roman_Republic", "title": "31 BC", "revid": 1371049882, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}]}