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Julius Caesar

Roman general and dictator

53 dated entries naming Julius Caesar, drawn from 39 separate years between 120 BCE and 62 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

1st century BC

  • 100 BCEJulius Caesar, Roman general and politician (d. 44 BC)source
  • 85 BCEMarcus Junius Brutus, conspirator and assassin in the murder of Julius Caesar (approximate date)source
  • 84 BCEJulius Caesar marries Corneliasource
  • 83 BCEJulia, daughter of Julius Caesar and Corneliasource
  • 78 BCEJulius Caesar returns to Rome after about two years of service in the armysource
  • 75 BCEJulius Caesar travels to Rhodes and is taken captive by piratessource
  • 75 BCEJulius Caesar travels to Rhodes to study under Apollonius Molon. On his way across the Aegean Sea, he is kidnapped by Cilician pirates and held prisoner in the Dodecanese islet of Pharmacusa. The young Caesar is held for a ransom of twenty talents, but he insists they ask for fifty. After his release Caesar raises a fleet at Miletus, pursues and crucifies the pirates in Pergamon.source
  • 75 BCECalpurnia, Roman noblewoman and wife of Julius Caesarsource
  • 73 BCEMarcus Porcius Cato, assassin of Julius Caesar (d. 42 BC)source
  • 69 BCEGaius Julius Caesar is a quaestor in Spain.source
  • 68 BCECornelia, wife of Julius Caesar (b. 94 BC)source
  • 67 BCEJulius Caesar reconciles with Pompey and Crassussource
  • 66 BCEOctavia (the Younger), grandniece of Julius Caesar (d. 11 BC)source
  • 63 BCEJulius Caesar is elected Pontifex Maximus and praetor for 62 BC.source
  • 62 BCEJulius Caesar divorces Pompeia, following the sacrilege of Publius Clodius Pulcher.source
  • 61 BCEJulius Caesar becomes governor in Hispania and creates Legio X Gemina (3,500 men). He puts down the Callaici and Lusitani rebellions.source
  • 60 BCECreation of the First Triumvirate, an informal political alliance between Julius Caesar, Pompey the Great and Marcus Licinius Crassus (or 59 BC).source
  • 60 BCEGaius Julius Caesar suppresses an uprising and conquers all of Lusitania for Rome.source
  • 59 BCEConsuls: Gaius Julius Caesar and Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus (known in jest as "the consulship of Julius and Caesar" due to Bibulus' Social withdrawal from public view to "consult the heavens" in an effort to invalidate Caesar's intended legislation).source
  • 58 BCEFirst year of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars:source
  • 57 BCESecond year of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars:source
  • 56 BCEThird year of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars:source
  • 56 BCEThe three Roman politician-generals of the First Triumvirate — Caesar, Pompey and Crassus — meet at the Luca Conference at the town of Luca (modern Lucca, in Tuscany), near Pisa, where they renewed their fraying political alliance, and further cemented the three men's increasing consolidation of power in the Roman Republic.source
  • 55 BCEFourth year of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars:source
  • 54 BCEFifth year of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars:source
  • 54 BCEJuly 31 – Aurelia Cotta, mother of Julius Caesar (b. 120 BC)source
  • 53 BCEJulius Caesar suppresses a revolt led by Ambiorix near Sabis (Northern Gaul).source
  • 51 BCEPompey demands that Julius Caesar lay down his command before he can stand for consul.source
  • 51 BCEJulia Minor, sister of Julius Caesar (b. 100 BC)source
  • 50 BCEThe Senate recalls Julius Caesar and rescinds his authority. Caesar breaks alliance with Pompey.source
  • 49 BCEJanuary 1 – The Roman Senate receives a proposal from Julius Caesar that he and Pompey should lay down their commands simultaneously. The Senate responds that Caesar must immediately surrender his command.source
  • 48 BCEConsuls: Gaius Julius Caesar and Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus. Caesar is named consul for a period of five years.source
  • 47 BCEJulius Caesar returns to Rome and is dictator for a year.source
  • 46 BCEConsuls: Gaius Julius Caesar, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus.source
  • 46 BCEJulius Caesar establishes Julia Paterna Arelate as a colony in Gaul for veterans of the Sixth Legion, at the present day site of Arles.source
  • 46 BCEJanuary 4 – Titus Labienus fights Julius Caesar in the Battle of Ruspina.source
  • 45 BCEFourth consulship of Gaius Julius Caesar (without colleague).source
  • 45 BCEThe veterans of Julius Caesar's Legions Legio XIII Gemina and Legio X Equestris demobilize. The veterans of the 10th legion are settled in Narbo, while those of the 13th are given somewhat better lands in Italia itself.source
  • 45 BCEMarch 17 – Civil War: In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the younger in the Battle of Munda. Labienus dies in battle, Pompey the younger is executed, but Sextus Pompey escapes to take command of the remnants of the Pompeian fleet.source
  • 44 BCEConsuls: Gaius Julius Caesar and Mark Antony.source
  • 44 BCEApril – Octavian returns from Apollonia in Dalmatia to Rome to take up Caesar's inheritance, against advice from Atia (his mother and Caesar's niece) and consul Antony.source
  • 44 BCEFebruary – Rome celebrates the festival of the Lupercal. Mark Antony twice presents Caesar with a royal diadem, urging him to take it and declare himself king. He refuses this offer and orders the crown to be placed in the Temple of Jupiter.source
  • 44 BCEMarch 15 – Julius Caesar, Roman politician and general (assassinated in the Theatre of Pompey) (b. 100 BC)source
  • 43 BCEAtia, niece of Julius Caesar and mother of Augustus (b. 85 BC)source
  • 43 BCEApril 14 – Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Caesar's assassin Decimus Brutus Albinus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, but is then immediately defeated by the army of the other consul, Hirtius. Both consuls are killed (Hirtius does not die until after the Battle of Mutina).source
  • 42 BCEOctober 3 – Gaius Cassius Longinus, Roman nobleman (assassin of Julius Caesar) (suicide)source
  • 40 BCETigellius, Sardinian lyric poet (close friend of Julius Caesar)source
  • 38 BCEOctavian appoints Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa governor of Transalpine Gaul, where he puts down an uprising of the Aquitanians. He also fights successfully against the Germanic tribes, and becomes the next Roman general to cross the Rhine after Julius Caesar.source
  • 30 BCEc. August 29 – Ptolemy Caesar, son of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra of Egypt, co-ruler of Egypt (likely assassinated) (b. 47 BC)source

1st century

  • 6AD 6 – The Princeps Augustus sets up a treasury, the aerarium militare (170 million sestertii), with the specific purpose of paying bonuses to retiring legion veterans. This is financed by a 5% tax on inheritances, a system said to have been suggested in Julius Caesar's memoirs.source
  • 62Lucan writes a history of the conflict between Julius Caesar and Pompey.source

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