The Roman Empire

By anna joyner
  • 146

    Roman Annexation

    Roman Annexation
    Since the Roman annexation of Greece in 146 BC, the Greek language gradually obtained a unique place in the Roman world, owing initially to the large number of Greek slaves in Roman households
  • 146

    new england

    new england
    Professor Gerhard Rempel from the Western New England College claims that in the city of Rome alone, during the Empire, there were about 400,000 slaves.
  • 200

    Absorption of foreign cults

    Absorption of foreign cults
    The worship of Cybele was the earliest, introduced from around 200 BC
  • 235

    Principate

    Principate
    Between the reigns of the emperors Augustus and Trajan, the Roman Empire achieved great territorial gains in both the East and the West.
  • 235

    Tiberius to Alexander Severus

    Tiberius to Alexander Severus
    Augustus was succeeded by his stepson Tiberius, the son of his wife Livia from her first marriage. Augustus was a scion of the gens Julia (the Julian family), one of the most ancient patrician clans of Rome, while Tiberius was a scion of the gens Claudia. Their three immediate successors were all descended from the gens Claudia, through Tiberius's brother Nero Claudius Drusus.
  • 476

    Decline of the Western Roman Empire

    Decline of the Western Roman Empire
    After 395, the emperors in the Western Roman Empire were usually figureheads, while the actual rulers were military strongmen. The year 476 is generally accepted as the formal end of the Western Roman Empire
  • Feb 2, 1027

    Julio Claudians

    Julio Claudians
    Gaius Germanicus, known as Caligula (r. 37–41 A.D.),
  • Jan 4, 1031

    Julius Caesar's

    Julius Caesar's
    appointment as perpetual dictator the battle of Actuim.
  • Sep 2, 1031

    roman republic

    The Roman Republic has been existied for 500 years.
  • Feb 2, 1453

    Eastern Roman Empire

    As the Western Roman Empire declined during the 5th century, the richer Eastern Roman Empire would be relieved of much destruction, and in the mid 6th century the Eastern Roman Empire (generally today called the Byzantine Empire) under the emperor Justinian I reconquered Italy and parts of Illyria from the Ostrogoths, North Africa from the Vandals, and southern Hispania from the Visigoths

  • Augustus

    Octavian, the grandnephew and heir of Julius Caesar, had made himself a central military figure during the chaotic period following Caesar's assassination.

  • Battle of actium

    The Roman Senate's granting to Ovtavian the honorific Augustus.

  • Julio Claudian

    Claudius (r. 41–54 A.D.), and Nero (r. 54–68 A.D.).

  • Crisis of the Third Century and the later emperors

    Crisis of the Third Century and the later emperors
    The Crisis of the Third Century is a commonly applied name for the near-collapse of the Roman Empire between 235 and 284. During this time, 25 emperors reigned, and the empire experienced extreme military, political, and economic crises.

  • Barracks and Illyrian emperors

    Barracks and Illyrian emperors
    Although the exact historicity is unclear, some mix of Germanic peoples, Celts, and tribes of mixed Celto-Germanic ethnicity were settled in the lands of Germania from the 1st century onwards