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Marcus Agrippa dies at an age of 51. Augustus wanting to ensure that one of his descendants will rule Rome forces his daughter Julia, the widow of Agrippa, to marry Tiberius, his stepson. Neither of the pair desired this marriage. Tiberius was already happily married to a daughter of Agrippa by a previous marriage. Tiberius nevertheless divorces his wife and marries Julia. Tiberius immediately left on a military expedition to subdue hostile elements in the area which is now Croatia, Serbia and Hungary.

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Augustus sent his two stepsons (Livia's children from her first marriage), now grown men, as leaders of a military expedition into what is now Switzerland, Austria and Bavaria to subdue the Germanic tribes there. They were successful and the Roman empire was extended to the upper reaches of the Danube River.

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Agrippa and Julia had two sons, one born in 20 BCE and the other in 18 BCE. Augustus eager to have male heirs to whom he could pass on his power adopted those two sons and renamed them Gaius Caesar and Lucius Caesar.

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The empires of Rome and Parthia reached a peace agreement in which Parthia accepted Armenia as being within the Roman sphere of influence.

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Agrippa marries Julia.

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Caesar Augustus traveled to Sicily, Greece and the Roman province of Asia (Anatolia) to reorganize the administrations there.

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Octavian fell seriously ill. He had had bouts of sickness before but not as severe as this one was. The illness may have been typhoid fever.

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Tribes in the Alps were subdued. The Celtic kingdom of Galatia, in what is now central Turkey (Anatolia), was annexed into the Empire.

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Octavian closed the doors of the temple of Janus. These temple doors were to be open in times of war and closed in times of peace. According to Livy they had been closed only once before in Roman history.

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Octavian invaded Egypt; Anthony commits suicide and Cleopatra follows suit in a tragic sequence of events. Cleopatra's son by Julius Caesar is sent into hiding on the Red Sea coast of Egypt but Octavian's forces track him down and kill him. Octavian annexed Egypt into the Roman Empire and put it under his direct control.

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Antony decided to bring his forces to the western side of Greece. Cleopatra came with him. Octavian sent a military expedition under the command of Agrippa to challenge Antony's control of Greece. A naval battle ensued at Actium in which Cleopatra, for fear of being captured, pulled her ships out of the battle and headed back to Egypt thus ensuring the defeat of Anthony's forces. Anthony and some of his ships escaped from the battle and followed Cleopatra.

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Octavian with Agrippa faught campaigns in the Balkan peninsula. The formal powers of the Triumvirate end in 33 B

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Octavian was fortunate to have a close and trusted friend from his childhood, Marcus Agrippa, who was a military genius. Under Agrippa's command Octavian's fleet defeated Sextus.

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Octavian marries Livia Drusilla, a member of the Roman aristocracy.

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Julia, Octavian's daughter was born. A few days after her birth Octavian divorces her mother, Scribonia.

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The Senate deemed Julius Caesar as having been a god.

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Octavian and Antony agreed to a sharing of power.

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Octavius was made a member of the board of Roman priests, pontifices. His great uncle, Julius Caesar, became the chief priest, Pontifex Maximus.

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Octavius at age 12 delivers the funeral oration for his grandmother Julia. He was encouraged to make this public speech by his great uncle Gaius Julius Caesar.

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The father of Octavius dies

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Gaius Octavius was born on September 23rd in the city of Velletri southeast of Rome