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Roman Empire Timeline
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Period:
The Monarchy, 753 BC to 509 BC
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Political
and military events
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Cultural
and other events
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| 753 | Foundation of Rome | ||
| 616-579 |  Tarquinius
Priscus |
c.600 |
Earliest Latin inscriptions Capitoline temple built |
| 579-543 |  Servius
Tullius |
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543-509 |
 Tarquinius
Superbus |
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| 509 | Expulsion of the Kings | More temples built | |
| 494 |  Plebeians
struggle with patricians for rights |
First law code: Twelve Tables | |
| 450 | City wall built Romanisation of Italy | ||
| 390 |  Rome
sacked by Gauls |
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| 378 |  Appian
Way built |
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| 338 | Extension of Roman citizenship | 312 | Coinage begins |
| 278 |  End
of struggle with patricians |
c280 |  First
gladiatorial games |
| 272 | Rome wins control of whole of Italy | Hellenisation of Roman society; comedies of Plautus and Terence; poetry of Ennius | |
| 264-241 |  First
Punic War (against Carthage): Rome wins Sicily |
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| 218-201 |  Second
Punic War: Hannibal defeated; 206 Spain becomes two Roman provinces |
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| 214-167 |  Macedonian
Wars |
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| 197-133 | Wars in Spain | ||
| 149-146 |  Third
Punic War: Carthage destroyed, Africa becomes Roman province |
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| 148 |  Macedonia
becomes Roman province |
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| 133 |  Asia
becomes Roman province; land reforms of Tiberius Gracchus |
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| 123-122 |
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| 113-101 |  War
against Cimbri |
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| 107-86 |  Seven
consulships of Marius; 104 army reform |
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| 91-87 | Social War; Roman citizenship extended to all Italy | ||
| 88-85 |  First
Mithridatic War |
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| 82-81 |  Dictatorship
of Sulla: proscriptions, reforms; rise of Pompey |
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| 73-71 |  Revolt
of Spartacus |
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| 73-63 |
 Third
Mithridatic War |
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| 63 |  Consulship
of Cicero; conspiracy of Catiline |
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| 60 | 'First triumvirate' (Pompey, Caesar, Crassus) | ||
| 58-50 |  Caesar
conquers Gaul; 55, 54 expeditions to Britain |
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| 49-45 |  Caesar
wins civil war against Pompey and republicans
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| 44 |  Caesar
dictator for life; assassinated |
46 |  Caesar's
forum |
| 43 |   'Second
triumvirate' (Antony, Octavian, Lepidus); proscriptions, murder
of Cicero |
c39 |  Histories
of SallustVirgil's Eclogues |
| 32-31 |   Octavian
wins civil war against Mark Antony; 31 Actium |
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29 | Virgil's Georgics | |
Iron
Age huts on Palatine hill 
Laws
of Gaius Gracchu
Speeches,
treatises and letters of Cicero; poetry of Catullus and Lucretius; histories
of Caesar; 55 Pompey's theatre|
Period:
The Empire, 27 BC to AD 476
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| 27 |  Octavian
becomes first emperor Augustus |
27 |  Agrippa's
Pantheon |
| 19 |  Virgil's
Aeneid; poetry of Horace, Tibullus, Propertius, Ovid; history of Livy
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| 16-AD 6 | Conquest of Danube provinces |
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13 |
 Theatre
of Marcellus |
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| 9 |
 Ara
Pacis Augustae |
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2 |
 Augustus'
forum |
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| 9 |  Varian
disaster |
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| 14 |  Death
of Augustus |
14 |
Teaching and death of Christ |
| 14-37 |  Tiberius
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| 37-41 | Caligula
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| 41-54 |  Claudius
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| 43 |  Conquest
of Britain |
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| 54-68 |  Nero
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Treatises and tragedies of Seneca; poetry of Persius and Lucan; novel of Petronius | |
| 60-61 |
 Boudicca's
revolt |
64 |  Fire
of Rome; first persecution of Christians |
| 66-70 | Jewish revolt | ||
| 68-69 |
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| 69-79 |
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and treatises of Pliny the Elder |
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| 79-81 |
 Titus |
79 |  Eruption
of Vesuvius |
| 81-96 |  Domitian
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80 |
 Colosseum |
| 96-98 |
 Nerva
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Epigrams
of Martial, rhetoric of Quintilian Histories of Tacitus, letters of Pliny the Younger, satires of Juvenal  |
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| 98-117 |
 Trajan |
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| 107 |  Conquest
of Dacia |
112 |
 Trajan's
forum |
| 117-138 |
 Hadrian
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122 |  Biographies
of Suetonius |
| 138-161 |   Antoninus
Pius |
142 |  Hadrian's
WallAntonine Wall Novel and oratory of Apuleius; legal writings of Gaius |
| 161-180 |
 Marcus
Aurelius |
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| 180-192 |
 Commodus
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| 193-235 |  Severan
dynasty |
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| 212 |  Roman
citizenship extended to all free inhabitants of the empire |
216 |  Baths
of Caracalla |
| 272 |  Dacia
ceded to the Goths |
260 | Decree of toleration of Christianity |
| 284-305 |
 Diocletian
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271 |
 Aurelian's
city wall |
| 293 |  Tetrarchy
established |
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| 307-337 |  Constantine
I |
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| 312 |   Defeat
of Maxentius at Milvian Bridge |
315 |
 Arch
of Constantine |
| 410 |  Britain
told to defend itself |
324 | Foundation of Constantinople |
| 455 | Vandals sack Rome | ||
| 476 | Loss of western Roman empire complete | ||
Augustus'
Res Gestae
Galba,
Otho, Vitellius 
Vespasian
