Timeline: 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