When Was Julius Caesar's Early Life

Julius Caesar was a former Roman Dictator. Julius Caesar had a very eventful life. He had a hard beginning to life growing up. Julius Caesar devoted his entire life into politics and eventually he became the Roman Consul. He was assassinated a year into his role as Roman Consul. This is the life of Julius Caesar. The Early life of Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar, the child of Aurelia Cotta and Gaius Julius Caesar, was born on July 12th or 13th, 100 BC. When he was 16, his father past away. “In 84 BC, Julius Caesar married Cornelia, the daughter of a nobleman”(Biography). Together they had a daughter, Julia Caesaris, in 76 B.C. Julius Caesar was almost lost his property and his life because he did not divorce his wife like Sulla had ordered him too. He escaped this fate by leaving Italy and by doing military work for the province of Asia and then in Cilicia. In 78 BC, after Sulla’s death, he returned to Rome and started his political career. …show more content…
Julius Caesar later became a quaestor in 69 BC. In that same year Cornelia passes away. “Caesar afterward married Pompeia, a distant relative of Pompey. Caesar served his quaestorship in the province of Farther Spain”(britannica). In 65 BC, Caesar was elected one of the curule aediles. He was elected pontifex maximus in 63 BC by a political dodge. Caesar was elected a praetor for 62 BC. In 59 BC, he was elected Consul. As Julius Caesar grew stronger, a war broke out between him and Pompey. By late 48 BC, Caesar had pushed his enemies out of Italy and pursued Pompey into Egypt. There Pompey was killed, and Caesar put himself with the Egyptian queen Cleopatra. When Julius Caesar returned to Rome, he was made dictator for