Dates 3 Flashcards
31 BC
Battle of Actium
27 BC
First Settlement of Octavian
23 BC
Second Settlement
AD 14
Augustus Dies; Tiberius becomes emperor
19
Germanicus dies
31
Sejanus executed
37
Tiberius dies; Calibula becomes emperor
41
Caligula dies (assassinated); Claudius becomes emperor
43
Britain becomes a Roman province
54
Claudius dies; Nero becomes emperor
64
Great Fire of Rome
68
Nero dies (suicide); Galba becomes emperor
69
Galba dies (assassinated);
Otho becomes emperor; Otho dies;
Vitellius becomes emperor; Vitellius dies;
Vespasian becomes emperor
70
Temple of Jerusalem destroyed; Construction of Coliseum begins
79
Vespasian dies; Titus becomes emperor
81
Titus dies; Domitian becomes emperor
96
Domitian dies (assassinated); Nerva (assassin) becomes emperor
98
Nerva dies; Trajan becomes emperor
101-106
Trajan’s Dacian Wars
117
Trajan dies; Hadrian becomes emperor
120s
Hadrian’s Wall constructed
138
Hadrian dies; Antoninus Pius becomes emperor
161
Antonius Pius dies; Marcus Aurelius becomes emperor
180
MA dies; Commodus becomes emperor
192
Commodus dies (assassinated)
193
Pertinax becomes emperor; Pertinax dies (assassinated); Didus Julianus buys the emperorship; DJ dies (assassinated);
Septimus Severus becomes emperor
211
Septimus Severus dies; Caracalla becomes emperor
251
Death of Decius at the hands of the Goths
260
Sharpur I captures Valerian
284
Diocletian becomes emperor
293
Tetrarchy formed
306
Constantine proclaimed emperor of Britain
312
Constantine defeats Maxentius at Milvian Bridge
313
Edict of Milan
324
Constantine eliminates Licinus
325
Council of Nicaea
337
Constantine dies; succeeded by Constantine II, Constans, Constantius II
361-363
Rule of Julian the Apostate
395
Theodosius I dies
410
Sack of Rome by the Visigoths (under Alaric)
455
Sack of Rome by Vandals
476
Romulus Augustulus deposed
527-565
Rule of Justinian
1453
Sack of Constantinople