Time Line of Rome

• legendary founding of Rome by Romulus and Remus ( 753 B.C. )

• Etruscan influence reaches Rome (c. 625 B.C.)

• Etruscan kings rule over Rome (c. 600 B.C.)
• republic established at Rome as Etruscan rule ends (509 B.C.)

• Laws of the Twelve Tables codified in Rome (451 B.C.)

• Etruscan city of Veii falls to Rome; Etruscan civilization in decline (396 B.C.)
• Rome begins conquest of Italy (396 B.C.)
• Gauls sack Rome (390 B.C.)
• Rome signs treaty with Carthage (348 B.C.)
• First Samnite War between Rome and the Samnites (343 B.C.-341 B.C.)
• first Roman coins (338 B.C.)
• Second Samnite War between Rome and the Samnites (327 B.C.-304 B.C.)

• Third Samnite War between Rome and the Samnites (298 B.C.-290 B.C.)
• Pyrrhus of Epirus invades Italy, but is forced to withdrawal (275 B.C.)
• First Punic War between Rome and Carthage(264 B.C.-241 B.C.)
• Colossus of Rhodes completed (c. 275 B.C.)
• First Punic War between Rome and Carthage(264 B.C.-241 B.C.)
• first public gladiator combat in Rome (264 B.C.)
• Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage (218 B.C.-202 B.C.)
• Rome and Macedonia sign a non-aggression pact (205 B.C.)
• last Etruscan cities fall to Roman expansion (c. 200 B.C.)

• Rome attacks Macedonia (200 B.C.)
• last Etruscan cities fall to Roman expansion (c. 200 B.C.)
• Rome defeats Macedonian army under Philip V at Cynoscephalae (197 B.C.)
• first known paved streets appear in Rome (170 B.C.)
• Rome defeats Macedonia at Pydna (168 B.C.)
• Macedonia forced to pay tribute to Rome (168 B.C.)
• first water clock in Rome (c. 159 B.C.)
• Macedonian revolt led by Andriscus defeats a Roman legion (150 B.C.)
• Third Punic War between Rome and Carthage (149 B.C.-146 B.C.)
• Rome puts down a Macedonian revolt (148 B.C.)
• Macedonia annexed by Rome (148 B.C.)
• Greece falls under Roman control (147 B.C.)
• Phrygia becomes a Roman province (133 B.C.)
• Lydia absorbed into the Roman Empire (133 B.C.)

• birth of Gaius Julius Caesar (100 B.C.)
• civil war in Rome ( 90 B.C. )
• revolt of slaves and gladiators led by Spartacus (71 B.C.)
• birth of Virgil (70 B.C.)
• birth of Gaius Octavius (Augustus) future Roman Emperor (63 B.C.)
• Pompey of Rome captures Jerusalem and places Judah under Roman rule (63 B.C.)
• Triumvirate formed between C. Licinius Crassus, Gaius Julius Caesar, and Pompeius Magnus (59 B.C.)
• Gaius Julius Caesar begins conquest of Gaul (58 B.C.)
• Caesar defeats Pompey at Pharsalus in Greece (48 B.C.)
• Caesar murdered (44 B.C.)
• Herod the Great rules Israel as a Roman vassal (34-4 B.C.)
• Gaius Julius Octavianus (Augustus) defeats Mark Antony and Cleopatra at Actium (31 B.C.)
• Egypt becomes a Roman province (31 B.C.)
• construction of the Pantheon begins (30 B.C.)
• Augustus becomes the first Emperor of the Roman Empire (27 B.C.)
• Kush assists the Nubians in a revolt against Rome (24 B.C.)
• Roman army razes Kushite city of Napata (23 B.C.)

• Rome invades the British Isles (30 A.D.)
• Titus suppresses a revolt in Jerusalem (70 A.D.)
• Silk Road from China to Rome opened (74 A.D.)

• Marcus Aurelius becomes emperor of Rome (161 A.D.)
• great plague in the Roman Empire (164 A.D.)

• Sassanians defeat a Roman legion at Edessa and capture Emperor Valerian I (260 A.D.)
• Diocletian divides the Roman Empire into eastern and western halves (286 A.D.)

• Constantine the Great becomes emperor of Rome and reunites the empire (306 A.D.)
• Constantine the Great accepts Christianity (313 A.D.)
• Constantinople becomes the capital of the Roman empire (330 A.D.)

• Visigoths sack Rome (410 A.D.)
• Vandals sack Rome (455 A.D.)
• Odoacer conquers Italy effectively bringing the Roman Empire to an end (476 A.D.)

• Justinian becomes emperor of the eastern Roman Empire (527 A.D.)
• Belisarius, Byzantium general, recaptures Rome (539 A.D.)

• eastern Roman Empire becomes the Byzantine Empire (610 A.D.)