Interactive Timeline of the Roman Empire By Deekan Benjamin O’Connell 7.2 Peter Moyes Anglican Community School

The Foundation: BCE THE BEGINNING-753 BCE The city is founded by Romulus and Remus. Romulus and Remus were left in a river when they were newborns. A "she-wolf" came along and gathered them from the river. She also hid and fed them. And then settled in Italy along side the Tiber river NUMA POMPILIUS-715 BCE Becomes King until about 678. Also the 12-month calendar was created! BESIEGED-750 BCE Tarpeia hands the city over to Sarbines. Tarpeia was thrown off a rock* THE BEGINNING FOR ETRUSCANS-753 BCE This starts the Etruscan Period. TULLUS HOSTILIUS-673 BCE Becomes King until DESTROYING-659 BCE Romans destroyed their enemy city Alba Longa ANCUS MARCIUS-641 BCE He ruled as king until about CLOACA MAXIMA (SEWER)-600 BCE Historians believe that the Cloaca Maxima was built around this time, TEMPLE OF JUPITER-590 BCE It was erected in the Roman Forum NEXT ETRUSCAN KING-578 BCE Servius Tullius becomes the next Etruscan King of Rome 573 UNIFIED INTO A CITY-575 BCE Rome becomes an official city! ESTABLISHING-616 BCE The Forum and Circus Maximus are established by the first Etruscan King of Rome named Tarquinius Priscus TEMPLE OF JUPITER-0510 BCE This temple is completed and consecrated.

The Foundation ‘She Wolf’ feeding Romulus and Remus.

The Republic: 509 – 27 BCE REPUBLIC FOUNDED-509 BCE The Republic is founded by Lucius Brutus. He also expels the Etruscans from Rome. The three Punic Wars BCE between Carthage and Rome took place over nearly a century, and ending with the destruction of Carthage. By the time the First Punic War broke out, Rome had become the dominant power throughout the Italian peninsula, while Carthage–a powerful city-state in northern Africa–had established itself as the leading maritime power in the world. Julius Caesar-44 BCE The appointment of Julius Caesar as perpetual dictator. The defeat of Mark Antony-31 BCE At the Battle of Actium The Roman Senate-27 BCE Grant of extraordinary powers to Octavian (Augustus) under the first settlement. Growth of the republic-500 to 300 BCE The Republic saw its territory expand from central Italy to the entire Mediterranean world. In the next century, Rome grew to dominate North Africa, the Iberian Peninsula, Greece, and what is now southern France. During the last two centuries of the Roman Republic, it grew to dominate the rest of modern France, as well as much of the east. The equality between plebians and patricians-287 BCE With the so-called Conflict of the Orders, wealthier, land-rich plebians achieved political equality with the patricians.

The Republic Hannibal taking 40 elephants over the alps in the Third Punic War

Punic wars-264 to 146 BCE The First Punic War-264 BCE When Rome interfered in a dispute on the Carthaginian-controlled island of Sicily; the war ended with Rome in control of both Sicily and Corsica and marked the empire’s emergence as a naval as well as a land power. In the Second Punic War-202 BCE The great Carthaginian general Hannibal invaded Italy and scored great victories at Lake Trasimene and Cannae before his eventual defeat at the hands of Rome’s Scipio Africanus in 202 B.C. left Rome in control of the western Mediterranean and much of Spain. In the Third Punic War-218 BCE The Romans, led by Scipio the Younger, captured and destroyed the city of Carthage in 146 B.C., turning Africa into yet another province of the mighty Roman Empire.

Imperial Rome: 27 BCE – 476 CE ce Some of the beloved rulers of rome-98 to 180 CE Among the beloved rulers of Rome were Trajan (reigned 98–117 CE), Hadrian (117–138 CE), Antoninus Pius (138–161 CE), and Marcus Aurelius (161–180 CE). The rise of cristianity-306 CE In the early 4th century, Constantine rose to Emperor in the West upon the death of his father Constantius. However, he and his brother-in-law, and co-emperor in the west, Maxentius were bitter rivals. The Tetrarchy-285 to 480 CETetrarchy A form of government which was legally to endure in one form or another for centuries. The Western Court was periodically abolished and recreated for the next two centuries until final abolition by the Emperor Zeno in 480, by which time there was little effective central control left in the area legally administered by the Western Court.Zeno Augustus-27 BCE to 14 CE was crowned Rome’s first emperor, was distinguished by stability and peace. War between Octavian and Anthony-31 BCE Octavian went to war against Antony in northern Africa, leading to his victory in Actium. Julio-Claudian Dynasty-27 BCE to 68 CE Ruled in Rome

Imperial Rome Octavian

The Collapse: 476CE From its early days as a monarchy, through the Republic and the Roman Empire, Rome lasted a millennium... or two. Those who opt for two millennia date the Fall of Rome to 1453 when the Ottoman Turks took Byzantium (Constantinople). Those who opt for one millennium, agree with Roman historian Edward Gibbon. Edward Gibbon dated the Fall to September 4, A.D. 476 when a so-called barbarian named Odoacer (a Germanic leader in the Roman army), deposed the last western Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, who was probably partly of Germanic ancestry. Odoacer considered Romulus so paltry a threat he didn't even bother to assassinate him, but sent him into retirement.

The Collapse

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