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