1. Gaius Caesar experienced an accelerated political career befitting a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, with the Roman Senate allowing him to advance his career without first holding a quaestorship or praetorship, offices that ordinary senators were required to hold as part of the cursus honorum.
In 1 BC, Gaius Caesar was given command of the eastern provinces, after which he concluded a peace treaty with King Phraates V of Parthia on an island in the Euphrates.
Approximately eighteen months later, Gaius Caesar died of an illness in Lycia.
Gaius Caesar was married to his second cousin Livilla but they did not have children.
Gaius Caesar was born in Rome in 20BC to Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder.
Gaius Caesar was a part of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, and was related to all the Julio-Claudian emperors.
Gaius Caesar was the stepson of Tiberius by his mother Julia's marriage to him, and brother in law of Claudius by his sister Agrippina the Elder's marriage to Germanicus.
Gaius Caesar was the uncle of Caligula, who was the son of his sister Agrippina.
The death of Gaius Caesar' father made succession a pressing issue.
Gaius Caesar was elected consul designatus by the Comitia Centuriata in 6BC with the intention that he should assume the consulship in his twentieth year.
Gaius Caesar convened a council of senators, among whom he included Gaius.
On his way to Syria, Gaius Caesar met with Tiberius, who had abandoned politics and retired to Rhodes.
On one occasion, Lollius offered to decapitate Tiberius if Gaius Caesar gave the word.
Gaius Caesar, who was twenty, had reached Asia, and was probably at Antioch at the time his consulship commenced, where he was organizing an army for the invasion of Armenia and opening negotiations with Phraates in the hopes of securing an agreement.
Gaius Caesar's inexperience meant he was forced to rely on his companions, namely the unruly Lollius, who had taken advantage of the powers he held, and was reportedly holding towns, individuals, and even sovereign princes for ransom.
Sometime in the course of his time in the east, Gaius Caesar led an expedition into Arabia.
The death of Lollius was fortunate to Tiberius, after which Gaius Caesar consented to his return to Rome and consequent return to Roman politics.
Gaius Caesar encountered no serious opposition as there were only a few revolts he had to suppress as a result of the nationalist party.
Gaius Caesar had to be carried away by his outraged lieutenants.