| A | B |
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| birth of Caesar | July 12, 100 B.C. |
| Apollonius Mollo | Caesar's oratory teacher on the island of Rhodes |
| 83 B.C. | year of amrriage to Cornelia, daughter of Cinna |
| 67 B.C. | Caesar's marriage to Pompeia, ending in divorce |
| 59 B.C. | Caesar's final marriage to Calpurnia |
| the two dominant political parties in Caesar's time | optimates and populares |
| the aristocratic political party | optimates |
| the popular, or democratic political party | populares |
| 68 B.C. | Caesar is elected Quaestor |
| quaestor | he first office in the cursus honorum |
| cursus honorum | a series of political offices leading to the consulship |
| 62 B.C. | the year Caesar is elected praetor |
| 59 B.C. | Caesr is elected consul |
| 65 B.C. | Caesar is elected aedile |
| 63 B.C. | Caesar is elected to the lifetime post of pontifex maximus; chiefly an honorary position |
| 60 B.C. | Caesar returns from Spain and eneters into a political alliance with Crassus and Pompey |
| First Triumvirate | (three man rule) the name given to the alliance between Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey |
| Gallic War | the seven year period during which Caesar conquered Gaul and Romanized the region |
| Civil War | the war fought between Pompey and Caesar in 49 B.C. |
| Pharsalus | the city in Greece where Pompey is defeated in 48 B.C. |
| Alexandrine War | the war in which Caesar supports Cleopatra's claims to rule in common with her brother Ptolemy |
| Battle of Zela | Caesar easily defeats King Pharnaces in 47 B.C. |
| Battle of Munda | Caesar defeats the army led by the sons of Pompey in 45 B.C. |
| 45 B.C. | Caesar defeats the sons of Pompey, becomes dictator for life, then becomes the imperator |
| March 15, 44 B.C. | Caesar is killed by a group of Roman citizens led by Cassius and Brutus |
| "Alea iacta est" | Caesar defies the Senate by refusing to surrender control of his army and crosses the Rubicon and begins his march to Rome, saying: |
| "Veni, Vidi, Vici" | Caesar defeats King Pharnaces at the Battle of Zela with great ease, and reports to the Senate: |
| "Et tu, Brute!" | Caesar is stabbed by a group of conspiritors including his close friend Brutus, and exclaims: |
| Quinctilis | Caesar's birthmonth, changed to July after Julius |
| Kaisar, or Czar | the name of Caesar survives in other countries |
| Commentaries on the Gallic War | Caesar's historical account of his conquest of Gaul |
| Commentaries on the Civil War | Caesar's historical account of his victory over his rival Pompey |
| 58-49 B.C. | Caesar seves as the proconsul of Cisalpine and Transalpine Gaul and Illyricum |
