Cleopatra

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  • Birth
    70 BCE

    Birth

    Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator
  • Cleopatra accompanies her father during his exile
    58 BCE

    Cleopatra accompanies her father during his exile

    In 58 BC, Cleopatra presumably accompanied her father, Ptolemy XII Auletes, during his exile to Rome after a revolt in Egypt (a Roman client state) allowed his daughter and rival, Berenice IV, to claim his throne.
  • First act as a queen
    51 BCE

    First act as a queen

    Cleopatra, in her first act as queen, began her voyage to Hermonthis, near Thebes, to install a new sacred Buchis bull, worshiped as an intermediary for the god Montu in the Ancient Egyptian religion.
  • Cleopatra's stay in Rome
    46 BCE

    Cleopatra's stay in Rome

    Cleopatra traveled to Rome as a client queen in 46 and 44 BC, where she stayed at Caesar's villa.
  • The Liberators' civil war
    45 BCE

    The Liberators' civil war

    In the Liberators' civil war of 43–42 BC, Cleopatra sided with the Roman Second Triumvirate formed by Caesar's grandnephew and heir Octavian, Mark Antony, and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus.