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Events
By place
Rome
★ January — The forces of the conspirator
Catiline are defeated by the loyal
Roman armies under Gaius Antonius in the
Battle of Pistoria.
★
Julius Caesar divorced
Pompeia, following the sacrilege of
Clodius.
★
Cicero delivers his
Pro Archia Poeta in defense of
Aulus Licinius Archias' claim to
Roman citizenship.
Births
★ Prince Ptolemy of
Egypt, later
Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII of Egypt (or
61 BC)
Deaths
★
Lucius Sergius Catilina,
Roman statesman