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85 BCE - 42 BCE: Life of Marcus Junius Brutus.
58 BCE: Marcus Junius Brutus accompanies Cato the Younger to Cyprus.
53 BCE: Marcus Junius Brutus begins his political career as quaestor.
48 BCE: Caesar defeats Pompey (battle of Pharsalus); Pompey flees to Egypt and is killed by courtiers of Ptolemy XIII.
44 BCE: Caesar becomes dictator for life. On the 'Ides of March' (15th) he is killed by conspirators including Brutus and Cassius. Octavian, son of Caesars niece Atia, is posthumously adopted as his heir.
42 BCE: Octavian and Antony defeat Republicans under Brutus and Cassius at the Battle of Philippi (Greece).