· 66 BCE—Cataline returns to Rome from Africa
o First Cataline conspiracy
· Summer 64—Cicero defeats Cataline for the consulship
· 1 Jan 63—Cicero enters office
o Economic crisis with Pompy’s war in the East
o Land reform proposed
§ The “Ten Kings”
· Spring 63—Cicero proposes raising penalties for election fraud and bribery
o Second plot begins
· Summer 63—Cicero informed of plot by Terentia
o Denounces Cataline in the senate
o Cataline loses election for consol and widens the plot from just a political party to an outright coup
· 20 October 63—Crassus betrays the plot to Cicero
o Manlius’s revolt in the countryside
· 6 November 63—Cataline calls meeting of the conspirators
o Actually makes a list of those to die and how to burn the city
· 8 November 63—Cicero denounces Cataline AGAIN
o Cataline exiled—Goes to Manlius
§ Both declared public enemies
· 2 December 63—Remaning conspirators trapped in a manufactured plot
· 3 December 63—Five remaining conspirators executed
o “They have lived!”
o Cicero declared Pater Patriae
· January 62—Forces of Marcus Antonius (senior) overwhelm Cataline and Manlius
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