509 BC - Traditional beginning of the Roman Republic

106 BC - 43 BC - life of Cicero, famous orator opposed to the Catiline Conspiracy, Cicdro is also noted for De Re Publica (On the Republic), a series of six books written between 54 - 51 BC

100 BC - 44 BC - life of Julius Caesar

75 BC - 200 AD - Classical Latin

70 BC - 19 BC - life of Virgil - best known as author of the Aeneid

63 BC - CIcero exposed plot by Roman senator Catiline to overthrow the Roman Republic and forced him to flee Rome

27 BC - 14 AD - reign of Caesar Augustus

56 AD - 120 AD - Tacitus, a Roman historian, also source of one of earliest non-Christian references to the crucifixion of Christ

405 AD - St. Jerome completes the Vulgate

900 - 1300 AD - Medieval Latin

14th - 15th centuries - Renaissance Latin - inspired by the Golden Age of Classical Latin, tried to purify the Latin language