Dates in the Life of Augustus
Augustus Timeline
| B.C. 63, September 23 50 48, October 18 45 45, October 44, MARCH 15 44, April 18 44, April 19 44, April 19 44, April 19 44, early May 44, early May 43, April 14 43, April 14-27 43, April 14-27 43, May 24 43, August 19 43, October 43, November 27 PROSCRIPTIONS PROSCRIPTIONS PROSCRIPTIONS 42, Spring to Winter 42, Spring to Winter 42, Spring to Winter 42, Spring to Winter 42, Spring to Winter 42, Spring to Winter 41 40 40, by July 5 40, 39 38, January 17 36 31, Sept. 2 30, August 29, August 13-15 27, Jan. 13 & 16 23, June 22 19, Oct. 12 18 17 17 17, May 31 16-13 12, March 6 11, May 4 8
2, January 1 2 2, August 1 A.D. 4 A.D. July 13, April 3 14, May 11 14, July 24-25 14, August 9 14, August 16 14, August 19 |
Events BIRTH OF AUGUSTUS, at Rome (Suet. Aug. 5, 6, 94) Funeral Oration for his grandmother Julia Toga virilis (ceremony: became a man in law) In Spain with Julius Caesar: Battle of Munda At Apollonia in Macedonia ASSASSINATION OF JULIUS CAESAR At Naples Meeting with Cicero and Balbus (Cic. Att. 14.10) Puteoli, at Philippus' villa Cumae, at Cicero's Villa In Rome MEETING WITH ANTONY in Pompey's Gardens Battle at Forum Gallorum (Antonius Defeated) BATTLE AT MUTINA (April 21: Antonius Defeated) Bononia ANTONIUS and Lepidus join forces FIRST CONSULATE of Caesar Augustus with his cousin Pedius MEETING WITH ANTONY AND LEPIDUS at island of Reni SECOND TRIUMVIRATE legislated at Rome (5 years): LEX TITIA -130+ senators (Livy) -200 senators + 2000 equites (Appian -Only one ex-consul known (Cicero), but nearly 100 names altogether The Campaign aginst the 'LIBERATORS' (Brutus and Cassius) 43 LEGIONS + CAVALRY + AUXILIARIES (on side of Triumvirs) FINANCE: 1400 rich women ordered censused and assessed: failure Everyone with property of 400,000 HS + contribute one year's income BATTLE OF PHILIPPI (October 23), Young Caesar sick Young Caesar sick, in Brundisium Perugia: Perusine War (Appian, Book 5, Dio 48, Suet. Aug. 12) Capture of Perusia: return to Rome (Dio 48.17) Leaves for Gaul and Spain (Dio 48. 20) Sick at Canusium & Brundisium (Appian 5. 57) Antonius married Augustus' full-sister OCTAVIA (child: Antonia, the Emperor Claudius' mother) Augustus married Scribonia (mother of his only child, Julia) Augustus married Livia, the pregnant wife of Tiberius Claudius Nero; there was already a small child from Claudius: Tiberius; Drusus was born shortly thereafter. (Livia finally died in 29 A.D. at 86). Battle of Naulochus BATTLE OF ACTIUM Suicide of ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA Triple Triumph on his return to Rome Meeting of Senate (Res Gestae Ch. 34) Constitutional Settlement: Name of AUGUSTUS awarded Augustus ill: Assassination attempt (Maecenas' brother-in-law) Gave up consulship, given POWER OF A TRIBUNE (tribunicia potestas) Journey to the East (Athens, Ephesus, Syria etc.) Return from the East Fortuna Redux (Dio 54. 10) LECTIO SENATUS (Revision of List of Senators) Dio 54. 12 Adoption of Gaius and Lucius Agrippa (Aug.'s grandsons) Dio 54. 18 LEGES JULIAE: de ordinibus maritandis, before May 24 LUDI SAECULARES (Games held once a century: New Age) GALLIC AND SPANISH JOURNEY Dio 54. 19 (accompanied by Livia, Tiberius and Terentia) AUGUSTUS ELECTED PONTIFEX MAXIMUS Grand Opening of the THEATER OF MARCELLUS Suet. Aug. 43 Lectio Senatus Dio 54. 26 CENSUS, Lectio Senatus AUGUSTUS CONSUL XII, Presents Caesar (heir) in public Forum BIRTH OF JESUS, The Christ, in Bethlehem, Province of Judaea Augustus ill, in Rome Suet. Tib. 11 CONSUL XIII Presentation of Lucius Caesar in public in the Forum AUGUSTUS NAMED 'PATER PATRIAE' (Father of His Country) DEDICATION OF THE FORUM AUGUSTUM and temple of Mars Ultor Julia Scandal LECTIO SENATUS Augustus wrote his Will III Census Augustus and Tiberius leave Rome Dio 55. 29 Departure for the Balkans Return to Brundisium, summoned by Livia at Augustus' villa: DEATH OF |