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Cicero

Roman statesman, lawyer, orator, and philosopher (106–43 BC)

26 dated entries naming Cicero, drawn from 21 separate years between 106 BCE and 385 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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2nd century BC

  • 106 BCEJanuary 3 – Cicero, Roman politician and author (died 43 BC)source

1st century BC

  • 98 BCETerentia, first wife of Cicero (died AD 4).source
  • 90 BCECicero starts to serve in the Roman army.source
  • 89 BCECicero ends his service in the Roman army.source
  • 79 BCECicero travels to Athens and then to Rhodes to continue his studies of philosophy and oratory.source
  • 75 BCECicero is quaestor in Western Sicily.source
  • 70 BCEAugust – In Rome, Cicero prosecutes former governor Verres; Verres exiles himself to Marseille before the trial is over.source
  • 66 BCEThe lex Manilia, supported by Cicero gives Pompey command over all of Asia.source
  • 66 BCECatiline accused of conspiring against the Roman Republic with Autronius and the younger Sulla (also in 63 BC during the consulship of Cicero).source
  • 63 BCESecond Catilinarian Conspiracy against the Roman Republic is foiled by Cicero.source
  • 63 BCEMarcus Tullius Cicero is senior consul. He is the first novus homo (new man) to be elected to the consulship in 31 years.source
  • 62 BCECicero delivers his Pro Archia Poeta in defense of Aulus Licinius Archias' claim to Roman citizenship.source
  • 58 BCEPublius Clodius Pulcher, Roman tribune, institutes a monthly corn dole for poor Romans, and exiles Cicero from the city.source
  • 56 BCEClodia accuses her former lover Marcus Caelius Rufus of trying to poison her. The trial ends with the defendant acquitted thanks to the Pro Caelio speech of Cicero. There is no more reference to the formerly well-known Clodia.source
  • 52 BCEMilo is tried for the murder of Clodius. Despite Cicero's legal defence (Pro Milone) he is found guilty and exiled in Massilia (modern Marseille).source
  • 52 BCECyrus, Roman architect (builder for Cicero)source
  • 49 BCEJune 7 – Cicero slips out of Italy and goes to Thessaloniki.source
  • 46 BCEApril 20 – Cicero, in Rome, writes to Varro "If our voices are no longer heard in the Senate and in the Forum, let us follow the example of the ancient sages and serve our country through our writings, concentrating on questions of ethics and constitutional law."source
  • 45 BCEFebruary – Tullia, daughter of Cicero (born 79 BC or 78 BC)source
  • 44 BCEApril 18–April 21 – Octavian engages in a charm offensive with consular Cicero who is fulminating against Mark Antony.source
  • 43 BCEApril 21 – Cicero's 14th and last Philippic.source
  • 43 BCEDecember 7 – Cicero, Roman statesman and orator (murdered) (born 106 BC)source
  • 43 BCEDecember 7 – The orator Cicero is killed in Formiae in a litter going to the seaside, by a party led by Herennius (a centurion) and Popilius (a military tribune). His head and hands are displayed on the Rostra in the Forum Romanum.source
  • 4 BCEMarcus Tullius Tiro, Roman writer, freedman of Cicerosource

1st century

  • 6AD 6 – Terentia, wife of Marcus Tullius Cicero (born 98 BC)source

4th century

  • 385The Roman synod exiles the prophet Jerome, who has incorporated ideas first propounded by the Roman statesman Cicero. He departs for Egypt, Bethlehem, and Jerusalem, accompanied by the Christian ascetic Paula, who will edit Jerome's translation of the Bible, which becomes the Latin Vulgate.source

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