1. Roman History Timeline

2. Roman Prehistory/Mythological BC 1200 Legendary fall of Troy – Aeneas escapes/Aeneas lands in Italy and wars with Latin tribes 753 Legendary founding of Rome – by Romulus

3. Aeneas Fleeing Rome He is carrying his father, Anchises.

4. Romulus and Remus

5. Roman Monarchy BC 753Romulus – 1 st King –Founded Senate 100 men (Patres) 715Numa Pompilius – 2 nd King – built first temples in Rome 672Tullus Hostilius -3 rd King – built Senate House (Curia) 640Ancus Martius – 4 th King – built Ostia, 1 st bridge across Tiber 616Tarquinius Priscus 5 th King – Etruscan born - built Cloaca Maxima, Circus Maximus 578Servius Tullius – Etruscan - founded Democratic assemblies 534Tarquinius Superbus –7 th King - Etruscan - tyrannical 509Romans overthrow Etruscan kings, Establishes a Republic

6. Circus Maximus

7. Tarquinius Superbus !

8. Roman Republic Early Republic BC 509Beginning of Republic with elected officials 451Twelve Tables – Roman law 390Gauls sack Rome 275Rome controls most of the Italian peninsula

9. Scary Gauls

10. Roman Republic Middle Republic BC 264 264- 149 Punic Wars against Carthaginians, Carthage eventually destroyed 133 Romans control Mediterranean coasts of Spain, France, Greec, Turkey, N. Africa 83 1 st Civil War – Marius and Sulla

12. Hannibal and His Elephants

13. Roman Republic Late Republic BC 60 1 st Triumvirate – Julius Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus/ Gallic Wars 58-49 49 2 nd Civil War – Julius Caesar & Pompey 44 Julius Caesar assassinated by Senators – 3 rd Civil War Octavian & Marc Antony

14. Julius Caesar !

15. Cleopatra

16. Roman Empire BC 27 Beginning of Empire – Octavian is named Augustus - 1 st Emperor – Pax Romana Emperors continue expansion – invade Germany, Britain, Asia Minor, Jerusalem AD 79 Vesuvius eruption – destruction of Pompeii & Herculaneum 80 Flavian Amphitheater (Colosseum) finished/ Persecution of Christians begins and continues for a couple of centuries 285 Diocletian – Empire split into East and West – 2 Co- Emperors

17. Octavian (Caesar Augustus)

19. Colosseum

20. Roman Empire AD 312Constantine – ends persecution of Christians -- changes capital to Constantinople 330 455Barbarian invasions weaken Rome – Huns, Vandals, and Gauls 476Last Emperor of the West is overthrown - Fall of the Western Roman Empire The Eastern Roman Empire becomes the Byzantium Empire – In 1453 it is conquered by the Ottoman Turks

21. Emperor Constantine

23. Byzantine Art