Octavia the Younger

sister of Roman emperor Augustus

9 dated entries naming Octavia the Younger, drawn from 8 separate years between 66 BCE and 37 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.

Also written as Octavia Minor in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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1st century BC

  • 66 BCEOctavia (the Younger), grandniece of Julius Caesar (died 11 BC)source
  • 54 BCEOctavia the Younger and Gaius Claudius Marcellus marry.source
  • 40 BCEMay – Gaius Claudius Marcellus, a distinguished member of the Claudii, dies. He leaves Octavia the Younger (the elder sister of Octavian) widowed. She will later marry Mark Antony.source
  • 36 BCEJanuary 31 – Antonia Minor, daughter of Mark Antony and Octavia Minor, mother of the emperor Claudiussource
  • 36 BCEOctober – 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.source
  • 30 BCEThe remaining children of Cleopatra are spared by Octavian and taken back in triumph; Octavia Minor raises Alexander Helios, Cleopatra Selene and Ptolemy Philadelphus in her household in Rome.source
  • 23 BCEMarcus Claudius Marcellus, son of Octavia and nephew of Augustus (born 42 BC)source
  • 11 BCEOctavia the Younger, sister of Augustus (born 69 BC)source

1st century

  • 37May 1 – Antonia the Younger, daughter of Mark Antony and Octavia the Younger (born 36 BC)source

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