HIST 101: Rome Timeline

By kamari.john
  • Period: 753 BCE to 716 BCE

    Legendary foundation of Rome by Romulus and Remus

  • 509 BCE

    Foundation of the Roman Republic

  • 450 BCE

    Issue of the “Twelve Tables”

  • Period: 264 BCE to 241 BCE

    First Punic War

  • Period: 218 BCE to 201 BCE

    Second Punic War

  • Period: 214 BCE to 148 BCE

    Roman conquest of Macedonia

  • Period: 149 BCE to 146 BCE

    Third Punic War

  • 146 BCE

    Roman destruction of Carthage and Corinth

  • 133 BCE

    Death of Tiberius Gracchus

  • 121 BCE

    Death of Gaius Gracchus

  • 86 BCE

    Death of Gaius Marius

  • Period: 59 BCE to 53 BCE

    Formation of the “First Triumvirate”

  • Period: 59 BCE to 49 BCE

    Caesar's Conquest of Gaul

  • 48 BCE

    Death of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (“Pompey the Great”)

  • 48 BCE

    Battle of Pharsalus

  • 44 BCE

    Assassination of Julius Caesar

  • 44 BCE

    Assassination of Julius Caesar

  • 43 BCE

    Roman Conquest of Britian

  • 43 BCE

    Execution of Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • Period: 43 BCE to 30 BCE

    Formation of the Second Triumvirate

  • 42 BCE

    Battle of Phillipi

  • 31 BCE

    Battle of Actium

  • 30 BCE

    Roman conquest of Egypt

  • 29 BCE

    Death of Publius Vergilius Maro (“Virgil”)

  • Period: 27 BCE to 68

    Julio-Claudian dynasty

  • Period: 27 BCE to 14

    Reign of Augustus

  • Period: 27 BCE to 180

    Pax Romana

  • 29

    Birth of Christ

  • 33

    Crucifixion of Christ

  • 88

    Lucius Cornelius Sulla marches his army against Rome for the first time

  • Period: 96 to 180

    Age of the “Five Good Emperors”

  • Period: 235 to 284

    Age of the “Barracks Emperors”

  • Period: 284 to 305

    Reign of Diocletian

  • Period: 303 to 311

    “Great Persecution” of Christians

  • Period: 306 to 337

    Reign of Constantine I

  • 313

    Edict of Toleration (Edict of Milan)

  • 325

    Council of Nicea

  • Period: 354 to 430

    Life of St. Augustine of Hippo Regius

  • 378

    Battle of Adrianople

  • 380

    Christianity becomes sole lawful religion of the Roman Empire

  • 395

    Permanent division of Roman Empire into Eastern and Western halves

  • 410

    First sack of Rome by the Visigoths

  • 410

    Roman abandonment of Britain

  • 451

    Battle of the Catalaunian Plains

  • 455

    Sack of Rome by the Vandals

  • Period: 527 to 565

    Reign of Justinian I

  • Period: 529 to 534

    Issue of the Corpus Iuris Civilis

  • Period: 590 to 604

    Pontificate of Pope Gregory I “the Great”

  • 1453

    Fall of the East Roman Empire