Major Events in the Timeline of Julius Caesar
102/100 B.C. - July 13/12 - Caesar's Birth
84 - Caesar marries the daughter of L. Cornelius Cinna
75 - Pirates capture Caesar
73 - Caesar is elected Pontifex
69 - Caesar is quaestor. Julia, Caesar's aunt (Marius' widow), dies. Cornelia, the wife of Caesar, dies
67 - Caesar marries Pompeia
65 - Caesar is elected Aedile
63 - Caesar is elected Pontifex Maximus
62 - Caesar is praetor. Caesar divorces Pompeia
Tatum's Always I Am Caesar offers insight.61 - Caesar is Propraetor of Further Spain
60 - Caesar is elected Consul and forms the Triumvirate
59 - Caesar is Consul
58 - Caesar defeats the Helvetii and Germans
55 - Caesar crosses the Rhine and invades Britain
54 - Caesar's daughter, who is also Pompey's wife, dies
53 - Crassus is killed
52 - Clodius is murdered; Caesar defeats Vercingetorix
49 - Caesar crosses the Rubicon - Civil War begins
48 - Pompey is murdered
46 - Thapsus Battle (Tunisia) against Cato and Scipio. Caesar made dictator. (Third time.)
45 or 44 (Before Lupercalia) - Caesar is declared dictator for life; literally perpetual dictator*
Ides of March - Caesar is assassinated
*Caesar's final step, according to Alfoldi, was a compromise. He had been designated Dictator in perpetuum (Livy Ep. CXVI), or as the coins read, Dictator perpetuo (never, according to Alfoldi p. 36, perpetuus; note that Cicero** cited the dative, dictatori perpetuo, which could fit either form), apparently in the fall of 45 B.C. (Alfoldi pp. 14-15). He had taken up this new dictatorship upon the conclusion of his fourth annual dictatorship on or near February 15."
Mason Hammond. Review of "Studien über Caesars Monarchie by Andreas Alföldi." The Classical Weekly, Vol. 48, No. 7 (Feb. 28, 1955), pp. 100-102.[See Comments]
** C. Caesari, dictatori perpetuo,
Cic. Phil. 2.87Cicero (106-43 B.C.) and Livy (59 B.C.-A.D. 17) were contemporaries of Caesar.
