Pompeii

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  • Period: 1000 BCE to 701 BCE

    10th-8th Century BC

    May have been a small prehistoric settlement at Pompeii
  • Period: 800 BCE to 501 BCE

    8th-6th Centuries BC

    Greek and Etruscan Settlements founded in Campania
  • Period: 600 BCE to 501 BCE

    6th Century BC

    The entire present city of circuit Pompeii is fortified and the street grid laid out. There are two major cult sanctuaries, the Temple of Apollo and the Doric Temple
  • Period: 500 BCE to 401 BCE

    5th Century BC

    The Samnites take control of many Greek and Etruscan towns in Campania, including Pompeii
  • Period: 400 BCE to 301 BCE

    4th Century BC

    Pompeii is probably part of a loose confederation of Samnite settlements headed by Nuceria and including Herculaneum and the villages of the Sarno Valley.
  • Period: 350 BCE to 250 BCE

    Late 4th-Early 3rd Centuries BC

    Rome conquers the Bay of Naples, and Pompeii comes under Roman control as an 'allied' town. In this period, Pompeii is largely an agricultural settlement.
  • Period: 218 BCE to 210 BCE

    218-210 BC

    The Second Punic War. In the wake of the Roman victory over Hannibal, Pompeii experiences an economic boom. By the beginning of the 2nd century BC the town has been completely built up.
  • Period: 100 BCE to 79

    1st Century BC-79 AD

    The area around Herculaneum becomes fashionable as a holiday resort. A great deal of construction and renovation within the town dates to this period.
  • 90 BCE

    90 BC

    Pompeii, along with other allies cities in Italy, demands full citizenship and rebels against Rome in the Social War.
  • 89 BCE

    89 BC

    The Roman dictator, Sulla, conquers Pompeii. Herculaneum is occupied by Italic rebels during the Social War against Rome.
  • 80 BCE

    80 BC

    Pompeii resettled as a Roman 'colony', the 'Colonia Cornelia Veneria Pompeianorum'.
  • 59

    59 AD

    There is a riot in the Ampitheatre between the peoples of Pompeii and Nuceria. Gladiatorial games are banned for 10 years.
  • 63

    63 AD

    A serious earthquake in the region causes significant damage to Pompeii.
  • 79

    79 AD

    Pompeii is destroyed, and buried, by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.