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1453 BCE
Constantinople conquered by Ottoman Muslims
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1200 BCE
Etruscans reached northern Italy
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800 BCE
Greeks established colonies throughout southern Italy
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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.
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600 BCE
Rome was a province of Etruria
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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390
Battle of the Allia: The Senones routed a Roman force at the confluence of the rivers Allia and Tiber.
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Oct 26, 1331
Byzantine–Ottoman Wars: The Ottoman Empire captured Nicaea.