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| -81 BC |
| | Cicero, whose speeches become models of oratory, makes his first appearance in a Roman court | |
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| 75 BC |
| | Julius Caesar, captured by pirates on his way to Rhodes, warns them that he will crucify them - and later keeps his word | |
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| 73 BC |
| | A rebellion by Spartacus and other slaves from a gladiators' training camp at Capua lasts for two years before it is suppressed | |
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| 60 BC |
| | Julius Caesar persuades Pompey and Crassus to join him in a political alliance to their mutual advantage, known now as the first triumvirate | |
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| 58 BC |
| | At the end of his year as consul, Caesar travels north to become governor of northern Italy and southern France | |
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| 55 BC |
| | Julius Caesar makes the first of his two invasions of Celtic Britain | |
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| 54 BC |
| | Julius Caesar returns to Britain for a second visit, this time reaching north of the Thames into the kingdom of Cassivellaunus | |
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| 53 BC |
| | The death of Crassus at Carrhae brings to an end the first triumvirate | |
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| 52 BC |
| | The Celtic leader Vercingetorix inflicts an unaccustomed defeat on Julius Caesar, at Gergovia, but is captured later in the year | |
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| 52 BC |
| | In his winter quarters Julius Caesar writes The Gallic War, an account of his own achievements in suppressing the Gauls | |
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