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753 BCE
Ancient Rome was founded
Ancient Rome was founded by 2 brothers names Romulus and Remus. -
509 BCE
Tarquin The Proud was deposed.
His rival for power, Lucius junius Brutus, reformed the system government and established the Roman Republic. -
53 BCE
lead a sizable force against the parthians at carrhae.
Crassus later then died afterwards when truce negotiations broke down. -
49 BCE
Caesar crossed the Rubicon river with his army.
He entered Rome at the head of it. -
48 BCE
Caesar numerically inferior force defeated pompeys greater one.
Pompey and Caesar met in the battle of Greece and pompey fled himself to Egypt. -
45 BCE
Julius becomes a dictator
They rule Julius as a dictator. -
44 BCE
Julius was assassinated by a group of Roman senators.
He was assassinated pricisely because of his achievements. -
42 BCE
Mark Antony joined forces with Caesar nephew and heir to defeat the forces of Brutus and Cassius.
Mark Antony joined people so they can defeat the battle of phillippi. -
31 BCE
Antony and Cleopatras combined forces were defeated at the battle of Actium.
Later after, they both took their own lives. -
27 BCE
Octavian was granted extraordinary powers by Augustus.
Augustus was the first emperor of Rome. -
14
Augustus stopped ruling the empire because he died.
He first started ruling in 31 bce -
64
Great fire of Rome
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68
Neros suicide
Following his suicide, Galba assumed rule and instantly proved unfit for the responsibility. -
79
Titus saw the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
The eruption buried the cities of Pompey and Herculaneum. -
80
Building of the Colosseum.
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81
Titus dies of a fever.
After Titus died, it was succeeded by his brother Domitian. -
96
Domitian was unpopular with the roman senate and later was assassinated.
The roman senate didn't like what Domitian was doing for the economy. -
169
Verus Death
After his death it seems to have been fairly effective. -
192
Commodus was strangled by his wrestling partner in his bath.
Because of this, the Nervan Antonin dynasty ended and it raised the perfect pertinax to power. -
217
Carcalla stopped ruling
He ended up being assassinated by his bodyguard. -
235
Alexander severus assassination.
After his assassination, it plunged the empire into chaos known as the crisis of the third century. -
285
Empire was divided in half by Diocletion.
He divided it to facilitate more efficient administration. -
305
Diocletion voluntarily retired.
The tetrarchy dissolved as rival regions of the empire vied with each other for dominance. -
312
Constantine defeated Maxentius at the battle of the Milvian Bridge.
After this, he became the sole emperor of both the western and eastern empires . -
325
First council of Nicea.
Constantine presided over the gathering to codify the faith and decide of the important issues . -
363
Emperor Julian stopped ruling.
In the time of Julian ruling, he tried to return Rome to her former glory through a series of reforms aimed at increasing efficiency in government. -
378
Roman emperor Valens was defeated.
The historians mark this event as pivotal in the decline of the Western Roman Empire. -
418
Orosius argued Christianity innocence in Romes decline.
He claimed it was primarily paganism itself and pagan practices which brought about the fall of Rome. -
476
Western Roman Empire officially ended.
It ended because Emperor Romulus Augustus was deposed by the Germanic King Odoacer. -
1453
The eastern Roman empire ended.
The roman empire continued on as the Byzantine Empire but it ended. -
Resources
Ancient Rome and Roman Empire by Joshua J. Mark
http://www.softschools.com/timelines/roman_empire/timeline_9/
