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Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Chronology

All dates are B.C. Chronology of writing and publication of some of Cicero’s works is uncertain.

106
Cicero born at Arpinum
104
Brother Quintus born
90
Cicero’s military service in the Social War
81
Pro Quinctio
80
Pro Roscio Amerino
79
Cicero travels to Athens and Rhodes to continue education (returns in 77)
77
Cicero marries Terentia (?)
Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo
75
Cicero quaestor in Sicily
70
Divinatio in Caecilium
In Verrem
69
Cicero aedile
Pro A. Caecina
Pro M. Fonteio
Pro M. Tullio
66
Cicero praetor
Pro Cluentio
Pro Lege Manilia
65
Son Marcus born
63
Cicero consul
In Catilinam
Pro Murena
Pro C. Rabirio perduellionis
De Lege Agraria
62
Cicero testifies against Clodius in the Bona Dea trial
Pro Archia
Pro Sulla
59
Pro Flacco
58
Cicero exiled (goes to northern Greece)
57
Cicero recalled from exile
De Domo Sua
Post Reditum ad Quirites
Post Reditum ad Senatum
56
Pro Balbo
Pro Caelio
Pro Sestio
In Vatinium
De Haruspicum Responsis
De Provinciis Consularibus
55
De Oratore
In Pisonem
54
Pro Plancio
Pro C. Rabirio Postumo
53
Tiro freed
52
Pro Milone
51
Cicero proconsul of Cilicia (until middle of following year)
De Republica
De Legibus
47
Cicero divorces Terentia
46
Cicero marries and divorces Publilia
Brutus
De Optimo Genere Oratorum
Orator
Paradoxa Stoicorum
Pro Ligario
Pro Marcello
45
Tullia dies
Academica
De Finibus
Disputationes Tusculanae
Pro Rege Deiotaro
44
Topica
De Senectute
De Amicitia
De Divinatione
De Officiis
Philippicae
43
Cicero (and Quintus) proscribed and killed
Philippicae