The Late Roman Republic
79-60 BCE

Major Events in Roman History
 Year
Political and Military
 Legal
 Literary and Artistic
 Social
List of Consuls 
80 Cicero's Pro Roscio
79
Sulla resigns from dictatorship
     
78      
Death of Sulla
Tabularium
77
Lepidus' Revolt
     
76        
75      
74        
73        
72        
71
Slave rebellion of Spartacus
     
70        
69        
68        
67    
Cicero's De Lege Manilia
 
66


Pompey against the pirates
Cicero is Praetor
Pompey embarks to fight Mithridates

 
Cicero's Pro Cluentio
 
65        
64        
63
Conspiracy of Catiline
 

Cicero's Catilinarian Orations
Cicero's Pro Murena
 
62


Pompey returns from victory over Mithridates
 Bona Dea scandal

   Cicero's Pro Archia  
61
Clodius acquitted at the Bona Dea trial
     
60
Coalition among Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus