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753 BCE
Founding of Rome
The most familiar of these myths, and perhaps the most famous of all Roman myths, is the story of Romulus and Remus, the twins who were suckled by a she-wolf. This story had to be reconciled with a dual tradition, set earlier in time, the one that had the Trojan refugee Aeneas escape to Italy and found the line of Romans through his son Iulus, the namesake of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. -
509 BCE
Birth of the Roman Republic
Tarquinio el Soberbio, used violence, murder and terror to maintain control over Rome. The crucial point of his tyrannical reign happened when he allowed his son, Sexto, to rape Lucrecia, a Roman patrician. A relative of Lucrezia, Lucius Junius Brutus, convened the Senate, which decided the expulsion of Tarquinius in 510 BC.
Immediately after the expulsion of the monarch a permanent Senate was created that decided to abolish the monarchy turning to Rome into a republic in the year 509 B.C. -
Period: 264 BCE to 241 BCE
First Punic war
The first Punic war (264-241 BC) was the first of the three wars waged by the Carthaginian Republic and the Roman Republic, the two great powers of the western Mediterranean at that time. For twenty-three years they fought for supremacy on the island of Sicily, its surrounding waters and northern Africa, in what was the longest and most continuous war of antiquity, as well as the greatest naval warfare ever. -
Period: 218 BCE to 201 BCE
Second Punic War
The second Punic war is the best known of the wars that took place in the framework of the Punic wars between the two powers that then dominated the western Mediterranean: Rome and Carthage. The contest is usually dated from the year 218 B.C., date of the declaration of war of Rome after the destruction of Sagunto, until 201 B.C. in which Hannibal and Scipio the African agreed the conditions of the surrender of Carthage. During the second Punic war, the battles of Cannas and Zama stand out. -
27 BCE
birth of the empire
The Roman Empire as a political system emerged after the civil wars that followed the death of Julius Caesar, in the final moments of the Roman Republic. After the civil war that confronted him Pompey and the Senate, Caesar had become the absolute ruler of Rome and had made himself named Dictator perpetuus (dictator for life). Such boldness did not please the more conservative members of the Roman Senate, who conspired against him and murdered him during the Ides of March. -
Period: 70 to 80
Construction of the coliseum
The Coliseum or Flavian Amphitheater is an amphitheater from the time of the Roman Empire, built in the first century and located in the center of the city of Rome. Its original name, Flavian Amphitheater, refers to the Flavian dynasty of emperors who built it; its later name, Coliseum, and for which it is better known today, is due to a large statue that was nearby, the Colossus of Nero, which has not reached us. -
122
Hadrian's wall
The Wall of Hadrian is an old defensive construction of the island of Britain, built between 122-132 by order of the Roman emperor Hadrian to defend the British territory, south of the wall, of the bellicose tribes of the Picts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmmfS4Z4Jig -
285
Division of the Roman Empire
The Western Roman Empire is the name given to the western part of the Roman Empire after the administrative division started with the Tetrarchy of the Emperor Diocletian (284-305) and consolidated by the Emperor Theodosius I (379-395), who divided it among his two sons: Arcadio was designated Emperor of the East and Honorius of the West -
476
End of the Western Roman Empire
The fall of the Western Roman Empire (also known as the fall of the Roman Empire or the fall of Rome) was the period of decline of the Western Roman Empire in which it lost the authority to exercise its rule, and its vast territory was divided into numerous successor political entities.
