-
2000 BCE
2000 BCE
Wandering tribes begin to settle in Greece -
1200 BCE
1200 bce
Estruscans reached northern Italy -
1194 BCE
1194 BCE
Trojan war started -
800 BCE
800-500 BCE
Greeks established colonies throughout southern Italy -
776 BCE
776 BC
The first Olympic games -
753 BCE
About 753 BCE
Village of Rome was found -
600 BCE
600 BCE
Rome was a province of Eturia -
600 BCE
600 BCE
The first Greek coins appeared -
490 BCE
490 bc
Greeks defeat the Persian invades at the battle of Marathon -
490 BCE
490 BCE
First Persian War -
450 BCE
450 BCE
"Law of the 12 tables" provides written Roman law -
440 BCE
440's bc
Greek theatre thrives in Athens. Many of the most famous Greek plays are written -
431 BCE
431 BC-404 BC
War between Athens and Sparta -
431 BCE
431 BCE
The Peloponnesian wars between Athens and Sparta. -
390 BCE
390 BCE
Gaulic invasion sacked Rome -
359 BCE
359 BCE
Philip II became King of Macedon -
339 BCE
339 BCE
The Catapult was invented at Syracruse -
282 BCE
282 272 BCE
War with Pyrrhus -
218 BCE
218-201 BCE
Second Punic War (Hannibal crossed the Alps) -
192 BCE
192- 189 BCE
Syrain war -
135 BCE
135-132 BCE
First Servile War (slave revolt) -
133 BCE
133 BCE
Tiberius, the first senator to advocate land reform, was assassinated in 133 BCE by land-owners. -
88 BCE
88-82 BCE
Civil war in Rome -
79 BCE
79 bce
Sulla returned power to the Senate -
58 BCE
58 BCE
Julius Caesar appointed governor of Gaul -
58 BCE
58-51 BCE
Julius Caesar's army conquered Gaul -
42 BCE
42-30 BCE
Cleopatra and Marc Antony had a relationship that lasted until their deaths -
1 CE
0 AD
Jesus Christ was born -
455
455 AD
End of Roman empire -
1896 AD
Modern Olympic games begin -
2010 AD
Present day