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753 BCE
753 B.C.
The city was founded by Romulus and Remos -
600 BCE
600 B.C.
Etruscan became king -
509 BCE
509 B.C.
The last king of Rome was Tarquin the proud , he was driven from power in this date -
390 BCE
390 B.C.
The Gavls , a Celtic people from the Po River valley , north of the Apennies , sacked river -
285 BCE
constantine
A religious man , who believed in the traditional Roman gods . He identified with the god Apollo , whom he claimed to have seen in a vision . -
265 BCE
265 B.C.
Rome and Carthage went to war -
264 BCE
264 B.C.
The First Punic war with Carthage begins -
Period: 264 BCE to 146 BCE
264-146 B.C.
Rome and Carthage fought three wars -
216 BCE
216 B.C.
Hannibal won his great victory at Cannae -
202 BCE
202 B.C
at Zama near Carthage the Romans defeated Hannibal -
Period: 161 BCE to 180 BCE
Marcus Aurelius
Brought empire to height of economic prosperity and wrote philosophy -
43
Mark Antony and Octavian
They took control of Rome and ruled for ten years as the Second Triumvirate. -
44
44 B.C.
Conspirator kill Julius Cesar -
80
The colosseum
one of the greatest feats of Roman engineering and a model for the ages -
218
218 B.C
In the second Punic War , Hannibal invades Italy -
284
A.D. 284
Diocletian , who will divide the Roman Empire , becomes emperor -
313
Constantine
announce an end to the persecution of Christians . -
476
A.D 476
Western Roman Empire falls with the ouster of the last emperor , Romulus Augustulus -
509
509 B.C
Rome becomes a republic -
Period: Dec 24, 1000 to 500 BCE
1000 to 500 B.C.
the earliest settlers on the Italian peninsula arrived -
slit
East and west split where the west lasted a 1,000 years longer