Ancient Rome Timeline By audrina.g1 753 BCE The City of Rome is Founded 509 BCE Rome Becomes a Republic 218 BCE Hannibal Invades Italy 73 BCE Spartacus the Gladiator Leads the Slaves to an Uprising 45 BCE Julius Cesar is becomes the First Dictator of Rome 44 BCE Julius Cesar is Assassinated 27 Cesar Augustus becomes the first Roman Emperor 64 Rome Burns 80 The Colosseum is Built 117 The Roman Empire at its Peak 121 The Hadrian Wall is built 306 Constantine becomes Emperor 380 Theodosius I makes Christianity the Religion of the Roman Empire 395 Rome Splits Into Two Empires 410 The Visigoths sack Rome 476 The Fall of the Western Empire and the fall of Ancient Rome 1453 The Byzantine Empire ends as the Ottoman Empire rises