dates Flashcards
Regal Period
753-509 BC
Republic
509 - 31 BC
Roman Empire
31 BC - AD 476
earliest graves in the Forum area
1000 - 900 BC
traditional date of the founding of Rome
21 April 753
stone wall built around base of Palatine
750 - 725
Rome is a large and complex city
550
Tarquin expelled and first year of the Republic
509
Capitoline Temple (to Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva) dedicated
13 September 507
Battle of Lake Regillus
496
Secession of the plebs
494
Treaty between Rome and Latin League
493
Decemviri
451-450
defeat of Veii
396
conquest of Rome by Senones
390 (actual date 386)
Servian wall built
378
Defeat of the Latin League at Naples
340
dissolution of the Latin League
338
First, second, and third Samnite wars
343 - 290
Via Appia completed
312
King Pyrrhus of Epirus invades Italy, wine victory at Heraclea
280
Pyrrhus wins “Pyrrhic victory” at Ausculum; leaves for Syracuse
279
Pyrrhus returns to Italy and is defeated at Beneventum
275
Rome captures Tarentum
272
First Punis War
264 - 241
Only major Roman defeats in First Punic War
255, 249
Sicily is first Roman province
241
Sardinia and Corsica provinces; Carthage turns to Spanish conquest
237
Siege of Saguntum
219
Second Punic War
218 - 201
Battles of Ticinum and Trebia
218
Battle of Lake Trasimene
217
Battle of Cannae
216
Hannibal takes Capua and is supported by Macedonia and Syracuse
215
defeat of Syracuse; death of Archimedes
212
Romans conquer Spain
206
end of First Macedonia War
205
defeat of Hasdrubal at Metarus River
207
Scipio invades Africa
204
Hannibal recalled
203
Battle of Zama
202
Treaty Signed
201
Spain made into two provinces
197
Philip V defeated at Cynoscephalae (Second Macedonian War)
197
Antiochus III of Syria defeated at Magnesia
190
Third Macedonian War ends at Pydna
168
Illyricum made a province
167
Third Punic War; destruction of Carthage; Africa made a province
149 - 146
Fourth Macedonian War ends
148
revolt of Achaean League; Achaea and Macedonia made a province
146
Tiberius Gracchus, tribune of the plebs
133
Gaius Gracchus, tribune of the plebs
123 - 122
Gaius Marius, consul six times, five times in a row
107 - 100
Social War
91 - 87
siege of Rome
82
Sulla dictator
81 - early 80
revolt of Spartacus in Italy
73 - 71
Pompey and Crassus consuls
70
Gaius Julius Caesar consul
59
Caesar begins first five-year command in Gaul
58
Caesar’s conquest of Britain
55 - 54
Crassus killed at Carrhae against Parthians
53
Gaul made a province
51
senate declares martial law against Caesar
7 Jan. 49
Caesar crosses the Rubicon River, thereby declaring civil war
11 Jan. 49
Pompey defeated at Pharsalus by Caesar
48
Caesar assassinated
15 March 44
Brutus and Cassius defeated at Philippi by Octavian and Antony
42
Battle of Actium
2 Sept. 31
Octavian hands back all power to senate
13 Jan. 27
Senate bestows title Augustus on Octavian
16 Jan 27 BC
Clades Variana and end of major Roman expansion
AD 9
Death of Augustus
14
Julio-Claudian dynasty (Augustus to Nero)
27 BC - AD 68
Conquest of Britain
43 - 74
Year of four emperors
69
Flavian dynasty (Vespasian to Domitian)
69 - 96
Adoptive emperors (Nerva to Marcus Aurelius)
96 - 180
abandonment of Trajan’s eastern conquests
117
