Julius Caesar

  • Period: 100 BCE to 44 BCE

    Birth

  • 65 BCE

    Julius Caesar is elected as aedile curule in Rome.

  • Period: 60 BCE to 53 BCE

    First Triumvirate' is created between Caesar, Pompey and Crassus.

  • 58 BCE

    Caesar attacks and defeats the Helvetii.

  • 58 BCE

    Julius Caesar invades Gaul.

  • 57 BCE

    One of Caesar’s Roman armies defeats an army of Nervii, Atrebates, and Viromandui.

  • Period: 55 BCE to 54 BCE

    Julius Caesar invades Britain twice, and is successful on the second attempt, but soon withdraws to Gaul.

  • Period: 54 BCE to 53 BCE

    Ambiorix of the Eburones tribe destroys around 9,000 Roman soldiers at Atuatuca

  • Period: 54 BCE to 29 BCE

    The Forum of Caesar is designed and constructed in Rome by Julius Caesar as another area to carry out judicial business.

  • 52 BCE

    Julius Caesar is defeated at Gergovia by Vercingetorix.

  • 51 BCE

    Vercingetorix eventually surrenders to Caesar's armies.

  • 51 BCE

    Caesar's capture of Uxellodunum ends the Gallic War.

  • 49 BCE

    Julius Caesar besieges Massilia.

  • 48 BCE

    Julius Caesar captures Brundisium

  • 48 BCE

    Caesar crosses the Rubicon. The civil war between Caesar and Pompey begins.

  • 48 BCE

    Caesar defeats Pompey (battle of Pharsalus); Pompey flees to Egypt and is killed by courtiers of Ptolemy XIII.

  • 48 BCE

    Caesar arrives in Egypt and orders Ptolemy XIII and Cleopatra VII to disband their armies.

  • 47 BCE

    Birth of Cleopatra's son, named Caesarion, Caesar thought to be the father

  • 46 BCE

    Caesar celebrates a triple triumph in Rome.

  • 46 BCE

    Julius Caesar secures the largest quantity of gold coins ever seen in Rome.

  • 44 BCE

    Senators rebel and Julius Caesar is murdered