Rome

Roman History

  • 1453 BCE

    Constantinople conquered by Ottoman Muslims

  • 1200 BCE

    Etruscans reached northern Italy

  • 800 BCE

    Greeks established colonies throughout southern Italy

    got through it
  • 753 BCE

    Village of Rome founded

    In the year 753 BCE, one of the greatest civilizations in the world began.
  • 616 BCE

    The Curiate Assembly elected Lucius Tarquinius Priscus King of Rome.

  • 600 BCE

    Rome was a province of Etruria

  • 535 BCE

    Servius Tullius was murdered by his daughter Tullia Minor and her husband Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, who declared himself King of Rome on the steps of the Curia Hostilia.

  • 509 BCE

    Romans revolted against the Etruscan kings and created the system of government by the Senate and the Assembly

    In 509 BCE,the kings created a system
  • 509 BCE

    The patrician Lucretia was raped by Lucius Tarquinius Superbus's son Sextus Tarquinius.

  • 500 BCE

    n the face of a potential Sabine invasion, the Senate passed a senatus consultum authorizing the consuls to appoint a dictator, a magistrate who held absolute power during a national emergency.

  • 494 BCE

    first disputes between patricians (wealthy landowners who controlled the Senate) and plebeians (ordinary citizens)

    wealthy landowners controlled the senate
  • 450 BCE

    "Law of the 12 Tables" provides written Roman law

    the law was written
  • 265 BCE

    Rome completed the occupation of the Italian peninsula

  • 264 BCE

    First war with Carthage

    first punic war
  • 91 BCE

    The "Social War"

    revolt by Roman allies in Italy
  • 45 BCE

    Julius Caesar defeated Pompey and became the first dictator of Rome

  • 44 BCE

    The Second Triumvirate of Marc Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian (later known as Caesar Augustus) ruled Rome. Note that Octavian was the nephew of Julius Caesar, and brother-in-law of Marc Antony

  • 31 BCE

    Caesar Octavian defeated the combined forces of Cleopatra and Marc Antony in the naval battle of Actium (near Greece

    combined forces together
  • 31 BCE

    Crucifixion of Jesus; origin of Christianity

  • 390

    Battle of the Allia: The Senones routed a Roman force at the confluence of the rivers Allia and Tiber.

  • Oct 26, 1331

    Byzantine–Ottoman Wars: The Ottoman Empire captured Nicaea.