Roman Timeline

  • Period: 1000 BCE to 500 BCE

    -Years the earliest settlers were said to have arrived in Rome and who were they

    1000 to 500 BC and they were Latins, Greeks, and Etruscans
  • 753 BCE

    Year Romulus and Remus founded Rome (according to the legend)

    Year Romulus and Remus founded Rome (according to the legend)
    753 BC
  • Period: 750 BCE to 600 BCE

    Year the Greeks arrived in Rome

    Between 750 and 600 BC
  • 509 BCE

    Year Roman Republic begins

    509 BC
  • Period: 500 BCE to 500

    The duration of years associated with “Ancient Rome”

    began in 500 BC and ended in 500 AD
  • 451 BCE

    Year Twelve Tablets written

    Year Twelve Tablets written
    451 BC
  • 380 BCE

    Year when Christianity made official religion of Roman empire

  • 265 BCE

    Year by which Rome had conquered all of Italy Year by which Rome had conquered all of Italy

    265 BC
  • Period: 264 BCE to 146 BCE

    The Punic Wars

    The Punic Wars 264 BC
    First Punic War 264- 241 BC
    Second Punic War 218 BC
    Third Punic War 149-146 BC
  • Period: 264 BCE to 241 BCE

    The first Punic War

    First Punic War 264- 241 BC
  • 218 BCE

    The second Punic War

  • Period: 197 BCE to 146 BCE

    Year by which Roman Empire existed from Spain to Mesopotamia and North Africa to Britain

  • Period: 149 BCE to 146 BCE

    The third Punic War

    Third Punic War 149-146 BC
  • 70 BCE

    Year by which Rome had achieved dominance over the Mediterranean Sea and surrounding areas

  • 60 BCE

    Duration of the First Triumvirate (when JC ruled Rome along with Crassus and Pompey)

  • 59 BCE

    Julio Caesar

    Julio Caesar
    elected consul in 59 BC
  • Period: 58 BCE to 50 BCE

    Years JC and his legion lead successful campaign to capture all of Gaul

  • 46 BCE

    Year JC returns to Rome and is named dictator

  • 44 BCE

    Year JC is named dictator for life

  • 44 BCE

    Year and date JC is killed

  • 43 BCE

    Duration of the Second Triumvirate and who served on it

    Caesar’s grandnephew and adopted son Mark Anthony.
  • 31 BCE

    Year that Octavian defeats Mark Anthony and Cleopatra

  • 27 BCE

    Year associated with start of Roman Empire

  • Period: 27 BCE to 14

    Year when Augustus began rule

    27 BC until his death in AD 14
  • Period: 27 BCE to 180

    Period of Pax Romana 27 BC to 180 AD

    27 BC to 180 AD
  • Period: 6 BCE to 4 BCE

    Birth of Jesus

  • Period: 1 CE to 100

    start of diaspora

    start of diaspora was in the 1st century AD
  • 6

    Year Rome takes control of Jewish kingdom, making it apart of Roman Empire

    Year Rome takes control of Jewish kingdom, making it apart of Roman Empire
  • 14

    Year of Augustus’s death (name for Octavian after he is crowned emperor)

  • 29

    Death of Jesus

    Death of Jesus
  • 37

    Duration of rule for the following rulers of Rome:

    Caligula
  • Period: 54 to 68

    Nero

  • Period: 66 to 70

    Year of final Jewish rebellion

    Year of final Jewish rebellion was in the 66-70 CE
  • 70

    Year that Jewish temple destroyed by Romans for the last time

  • 79

    Date for eruption of Mt. Vesuvius and destruction of Pompeii

  • Period: 81 to 96

    Domitian ruling period

  • Period: 161 to 180

    Marcus Aurelius ruling period

  • 250

    Year when Roman persecution of Christians begins

  • 284

    Rule of Diocletian

  • 284

    -Year when Roman Empire permanently split into Western Roman Empire and Eastern Roman Empire

  • 312

    Rule of Constantine

  • 313

    Year Constantine accepts Christianity

  • 313

    Year of Edict of Milan and what it is

    313 AD and it is a proclamation that permanently established religious toleration for Christianity within the Roman Empire.
  • 380

    Year when Christianity made official religion of Roman empire

  • 406

    Year when the Vandals attack Gaul

  • 410

    Year when the Visigoths begin attacking the Roman army

  • Period: 446 to 447

    -Year when Attila the Hun starts to enter frontier regions of Roman Empire

  • 476

    Year Western Roman Empire fell and to whom

    476 CE and it fell to a Germanic leader Odoacer, who became the first Barbarian to rule in Rome.
  • Mar 16, 1453

    -Year when Eastern Roman Empire was overrun by Ottoman Turks

    -Year when Eastern Roman Empire was overrun by Ottoman Turks