Summary POLTR - the background of the late republic

Background of the late republic

Timeline

- 81 – Sulla steps down from dictatorship
- 80 – Sulla’s consulship
- 79 – Sulla becomes private citizen
- 75 – cicero’s quaestorship
 Sicily & Lilybaeuym
- 73-71 – Verres’ governship
 Sicily
- 70 – consulships of Pompey and Crassus & Cicero’s prosecution of Verres
- 69 – cicero’s aedileship & Caesar’s quaestorship (Spain)
- 67 – lex gabinia  granting Pompey imperium against the pirates
- 66 – lex manilia  granting Pompey imperium against mithridates
- 65 – Caesar’s aedileship
- 64 – Cato’s quaestorship
- 63
 Caesar’s consulship
 Caesar pontifex maximus
 Lex agraria of rullus
 Pro rabirio
 Trial of murena
 Catilinarian conspiracy
 Senatus consultum ultimum on the conspirators – December
- 62
 Bona dea scandal
 Cato’s tribuneship
 Caesar’s praetorship
Pompey returns from the east
- 61 – trial of clodius & Caesar’s governship (further Spain)
- 60 – Caesar returns from Spain & first triumvirate is formed (Pompey, Crassus, Caesar)
- 59
 Caesar’s consulship
 Pompey marries Julia – Caesar’s daughter
 Clodius adopted into plebeian family
 Caesar granted imperium to pacify Gaul
- 58
 Clodius’ tribuneship
 Cicero exiled
 Caesar departs for Gaul
 Cato is sent to annex Cyprus
- 57 – cicero’s return from exile, Pompey five years imperium to stabilize corn supply to Rome, gang
warfare and rioting in Rome
- 56 – conference at luca (April) & Cato returns
- 55
 Second consulship of Pompey and Crassus
 Caesar given a further five years command in Gaul
 Pompey given five year command of Spain in absence
 Crassus given five year command in Syria
- 54
 Death of Julia
 Pompey in Rome – governing Spain in absence