133-132: tribunate of Tiberius Gracchus (murdered 132)
129: dramatic date of the De Re Publica
Cicero born Arpinum 3 January 106; moves to Rome as young boy and studies under Scaevola
90: in Rome studying
80: defend Roscius; goes East in the 70's
76: quaestor (there were 20 quaestors, attached by lot to treasury and to provincial governors; Cic. assigned W. Sicily
could then have become one of the four aediles (two curule and two plebeian, responsible for games, food supply, general running of the city) or stood for tribunate (there were ten tribunes)
70: Cic. stands for plebeian aedileship; prosecutes Verres
68: letters to Atticus begin
66: praetor (presided over extortion courts)
63: consul (Catilinarian conspiracy)
58: exile; returns in summer of 57
56 Luca
55: Pomp. and Crassus consuls; Cic. elected Augur
53: death of Crassus
52 murder of Clodius; Pomp. cos. 3rd time
51:
Cic. to Cilicia, arrives July 31; publication of the De Re Publica
50 Cic. returns to Italy Nov. 24
49: Civil war; Cic. joins Pompey in Greece
48: August - - Pharsalus; Cic. returns to Italy
46: Cicero ‘pardoned’ by Caesar
44: March – assassination of Caesar
43: December – Cicero proscribed and murdered