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753 BCE
rome founded
rome was founded because the twin sons of mars romulus and remus who are the gods of war founded the city. romulus killed remus and became ruler and named the city after him -
509 BCE
rome becomes republic
last king got overthrown, rome becomes ruled by elected people called senators -
218 BCE
hannibal attacks rome
hannibal leads carthage army in his famous crossing of the alps to attack rome, this is part of the second punic war -
73 BCE
slave uprising
spartacus the gladiator leads slaves to an uprising -
45 BCE
dictator
julius caesar becomes romes first dictator, he defeats pompey in a civil war to become supreme ruler of rome. this signals end of rome republic -
44 BCE
julius dies
he got assasinated after a year by marcus brutus who hoped to bring back republic but civil war breaks out instead lol beta -
27 BCE
roman empire
roman empire begins as caesar augustus becomes first roman emperor -
64
fire
alot of rome burns and its said emperor nero watched city burn while playing lyre -
80
building
the colosseum is built it can have 50,000 spectators -
121
wall
the hadrian wall is built to keep out barbarians -
306
constantinmes
constantine becomes emperor he became christian and made rome a christian empire -
380
christinaity
theosodius declares christianity to be the only religeon -
395
slpit emopires
rome splits into two empires -
410
rome falls after 800 eyars
visigoths sack rome after 800 years of not falling to an enemy -
476
fall of ancient rome
this is the end of the western roman empire and fall of ancient rome as the last roman emperor romulus augustus falls to german goth odoacer wwhich signals the dark ages in europe -
1453
fall of byzantine empire
byzantine empire falls to ottoman empire lmao beta