Born: 23/09/63BC Gaius Octavius [Thurinus]; in the Palatine district of Rome, just before sunrise
Father: Gaius Octavius, praetor ? BC, governor of Macedonia, died 58BC
Mother: Atia, daughter of M. Atius Balbus and Julia sister of Julius.
Emperor: 16/01/27BC Imp. Caesar Divi filius Augustus, new title conferred by the senate on accession
Died: 19/08/AD14 in his bed at Nola, in Campania, at about 3 pm
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- 44BC (8th May) becomes Gaius Julius Caesar after being adopted by Caesar
- 43BC consul I; imperator I; Battle of Mutina; married wife2, Claudia; Triumvir
- 42BC Battle of Philippi
- 41BC War of Perusia, Parthian Invasion
- 40BC married wife3, Scribonia; Treaty of Brundisium; Antony marries Octavia
- 39BC birth of daughter Julia; Parthians repulsed; Treaty of Misenum
- 38BC (17th Jan.) married wife4: Livia Drusilla/ Julia Augusta, just 3 days after the birth of her son Drusus.; start of war against Sextus Pompeius
- 36BC Defeatof Sexus Pompeius and Lepidus; Antony's Parthian expedition
- 35BC Start of Dalmatian War
- 34BC Dalmatian War ends; Antony annexes Armenia
- 33BC consul II
- 32BC Antony divoces Octavia; Oath of Allegiance
- 31BC consul III; battle of Actium
- 30BC consul IV; suicide of Antony and Cleopatra; conquest and annexation of Egypt
- 29BC consul V; Triple Triumph
- 28BC consul VI; first census and purge of senate
- 27BC consul VII; he restores the republic and recieves the title Augustus; in summer, left Rome for Gaul & Spain
- 26BC consul VIII; start of Cantabrian war; made the first Prefect of the City
- 25BC consul IX; Julia marries Marcellus; expedition of Aelius Gallus to Arabia; Cantabrian war concluded; Ethiopian war; annexation of Galatia
- 24BC consul X; returns to Rome from Spain & Gaul
- 23BC consul XI; seriously ill; gives up consulship; Agrippa recieves proconsular imperium for five years
- 23BC (26 June) tribunicia potestas I, annually thereafter
- 22BC Marcellus dies; Narbonensis and Cyprus transferred to senate; Augustus leaves for the East
- 21BC Julia marries Agrippa
- 20BC Gaius Caesar born; standards recovered from Parthians in diplomatic victory; Tiberius installs a king in Armenia
- 19BC granted imperium consulare by senate
- 18BC second purge of senate; laws on adultery, marriage and luxury; Arippa recieves imperium proconsulare and tribunicia potestas for five years
- 17BC Lucius Caesar born; Gaius and Lucius adopted; Secular Games held (baed on 110 year century)
- 16BC leaves Rome for Cantabria, to live with mistress: Terentia
- 15BC annexation of Raetia and the Alps
- 13BC Agripa's powers renewed
- 12BC Agrippa dies; Drusus given command on Rhine; Tiberius in Pannonia
- 12BC (6th March) elected 'Pontifex Maximus', after Lepidus dies
- 11BC Illyricum transferred to the senate; third purge of senate; the curatores aquarum formed
- 11BC (12th Feb,) Julia marries Tiberius
- 9BC Drusus dies
- 8BC death of Maecenas; month Sextilis renamed August; Augustus' second census; Rome divided into 14 regions; Tiberius leaves for Germany
- 7BC Tiberius campaigns in Germany
- 6BC Tiberius recieves tribunicia potestas for 5 years, but retires to Rhodes
- 5BC consul XII, TP 18; Gaius Caesar proclaimed princeps iuventutis
- 4BC death of Herod
- 2BC consul XIII; TP 21; Lucius Caesar princeps iuventutis; dedicates Forum; Julia exiled; Lex Fufia Caninia
- 2BC (5th Feb.) 'Pater Patriae', honorary title conferred by senate
- AD1 Gaius consul, sent to Syria
- AD2 Lucius Caesar dies at Massilia (Marseilles); Tiberius returns to Rome
- AD3 Gaius Caesar wounded in Armenia
- AD4 (21st Feb.) Gaius Caesar dies at Limyra in Lycia
- AD4 Tiberius and Agrippa Posthumus adopted; Tiberius recieves tribunicia potestas for 10 years; Lex Aelia Sentia; fourth purge of senate
- AD6 the aerarium militare started; the vigiles; annexation of Judaea; Sardinia transferred to the Emperor; start of Pannonian revolt
- AD7 Posthumus banished to Planasia
- AD9 Varus' 3 legions massacred in Teutoberger forest; Lex Papia Popaea
- AD13 Tiberius' tribunicia potestas renewed
- AD14 Augustus' third census
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