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106	Birth of Cicero (Jan. 3).
	Birth of Pompey (Sept. 30).
	Marius finishes the Jugurthine War.
102	Birth of Quintus Cicero.
	The Teutones defeated by Marius at Aquae Sextiae.
101	The Cimbri defeated by Marius at Vercellae.
100 (perhaps 102).	Birth of Caesar (July 12).
99	Death of Saturninus and Glaucia.
91	Murder of M. Livius Drusus.
	Social (or Marsic) War begins.
90	Cicero assumes the toga virilis.
89	Cicero serves under Cn. Pompeius Strabo in the Social War.
88	First Civil War begins. Flight of Marius.
	First Mithridatic War begins (ends 84).
	Massacre of Roman citizens by Mithridates.
	Sulla leaves Rome for the East.
87	Conflict between Cinna and Octavius.
	Marius returns to Rome.
	Massacre of the senatorial party.
86	Marius consul for the seventh time.
	Death of Marius.
	Rome in the hands of Cinna.
84	Sulla ends the First Mithridatic War.
	Murder of Cinna.
83	Sulla returns to Italy.
	Second Mithridatic War (ends 82).
82	Sulla overthrows the Marian party.
	The Proscription (ends June 1, 81).
	Sulla appointed Dictator.
81	Reforms of Sulla: the courts reorganized, etc.
	Cicero's Defence of P. Quinctius (his first extant oration).
80	Sulla's constitution goes into effect. The courts re-opened.
	Cicero's Defence of Roscius of Ameria.
	Pompey celebrates his first triumph.
79	Sulla resigns the dictatorship.
	Cicero goes to Greece.
78	Cicero in Athens and Asia.
	Death of Sulla.
	Civil War of Lepidus and Catulus.
77	Cicero returns from Greece.
	He marries Terentia (perhaps earlier).
76	War with Sertorius (ends 72).
75	Cicero quaestor in Sicily.
74	Third Mithridatic War begins.
	Lucullus goes to the East.
	Cicero returns from Sicily to Rome.
73	War with Spartacus (ends with the death of Spartacus, 71).
	Successes of Lucullus against Mithridates.
72	End of the Sertorian War in Spain (Pompey defeats Perperna).
70	First consulship of Pompey and Crassus.
	Cicero's Impeachment of Verres.
	Courts restored to the equites.
	Tribunician power re-established.
69	Cicero curule aedile.
	Lucullus defeats Tigranes at Tigranocerta.
68	Successes of Mithridates against the lieutenants of Lucullus.
67	Glabrio appointed to supersede Lucullus.
	Gabinian Law. Pompey takes command against the Pirates.
66	Cicero praetor.
	His Defence of Cluentius.
	The Piratic War successfully ended by Pompey.
	Manilian Law (advocated by Cicero).
	Pompey takes command against Mithridates.
65	Birth of Cicero's only son, Marcus.
	First Conspiracy of Catiline.
63	Cicero and C. Antonius consuls.
	Second conspiracy of Catiline suppressed.
	Four Orations against Catiline.
	Birth of Augustus (Sept. 23).
62	Return of Pompey from the East.
	Cicero's Defence of Archias.
61	Trial of Clodius for violating the mysteries.
	Cicero's strife with him in the Senate.
60	The First Triumvirate (coalition of Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus).
	First consulship of Caesar (with Bibulus).
	Clodius is chosen tribune.
58	Tribunate of Clodius. His legislation.
	Cicero driven into exile.
	Beginning of Caesar's conquest of Gaul (finished in 51).
57	Cicero recalled from exile (law passed Aug. 4).
56	Cicero's Defence of Sestius.
55	Second consulship of Pompey and Crassus.
	Caesar's command in Gaul renewed.
	His first invasion of Britain.
54	Caesar's second invasion of Britain.
53	Cicero made augur.
	Crassus and his army destroyed by the Parthians (Battle of Carrhae).
52	Clodius killed (Jan. 20). Burning of the Senate-house.
	Pompey elected consul without colleague (Feb. 25).
	Cicero's Defence of Milo.
51	Cicero proconsul in Cilicia.
	His successful campaign against the mountaineers.
50	Cicero returns to Italy.
49	Caesar crosses the Rubicon. Beginning of the Great Civil War (ends 46).
	Cicero's efforts for peace.
	Pompey retires to Epirus, where Cicero joins him.
	Caesar acquires Spain.
	Caesar dictator.
48	Battle of Pharsalia. Death of Pompey.
	Caesar in Africa (Alexandrine War).
	Caesar re-appointed dictator.
47	Caesar returns to Rome.
	Caesar pardons Cicero.
	He sails for Africa against the Pompeians.
46	Battle of Thapsus. Cato kills himself at Utica.
	Caesar returns to Rome, undisputed master of the Empire.
	He is made dictator for ten years.
	His reform of the calendar.
	Revolt of the sons of Pompey in Spain.
	Cicero divorces Terentia and marries Publilia.
	Cicero's Oration for Marcellus; for Ligarius.
45	Caesar defeats the sons of Pompey (Battle of Munda).
	Death of Cicero's daughter, Tullia, Tusculan Questions, etc.
	Cicero divorces Publilia.
	Caesar appointed dictator for ten years.
44	Caesar appointed dictator for life.
	Assassination of Caesar (March 15).
	Octavianus in Rome. Struggle between Mark Antony and the Senate begins.
	Cicero's first four Philippics (against Antony).
43	Cicero's Philippics 5-14. The Mutina War.
	The Second Triumvirate (Octavianus, Antony, and Lepidus) .
	Proscription. Murder of Cicero (Dec. 7).
42	Battle of Philippi.

Select Orations of. Cicero. Allen and Greenough's Edition. Revised by J. B. Greenough and G. L. Kittredge, with a special vocabulary by J. B. Greenough.

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