Ancient Rome Timeline

By jpolyzos
  • Period: 1000 BCE to 500 BCE

    earliest settlers

    Latins, Greeks, and Etruscans
  • Period: 750 BCE to 600 BCE

    greeks arrived in Rome

  • 743 BCE

    Romulus and Remus

    Romulus and Remus
    founded Rome
  • 509 BCE

    Roman Republic begins

  • 451 BCE

    writing of twelve tables

    writing of twelve tables
  • 265 BCE

    Year by which Rome had conquered all of Italy

  • Period: 264 BCE to 241 BCE

    first punic war

  • 218 BCE

    second punic war

  • Period: 197 BCE to 146 BCE

    Year by which Roman Empire existed from Spain to Mesopotamia and North Africa to Britain

  • Period: 149 BCE to 146 BCE

    third punic war

  • 70 BCE

    Year by which Rome had achieved dominance over the Mediterranean Sea and surrounding areas

  • 60 BCE

    Duration of the First Triumvirate (when JC ruled Rome along with Crassus and Pompey

  • 59 BCE

    Julius Caesar elected as consul

    Julius Caesar elected as consul
  • Period: 58 BCE to 50 BCE

    Years JC and his legion lead successful campaign to capture all of Gaul

  • 46 BCE

    Year JC returns to Rome and is named dictator

  • 44 BCE

    Year JC is named dictator for life

  • 44 BCE

    Year and date JC is killed

  • 43 BCE

    Duration of the Second Triumvirate and who served on it

  • 31 BCE

    Year that Octavian defeats Mark Anthony and Cleopatra

  • 27 BCE

    Year associated with start of Roman Empire

  • Period: 27 BCE to 180

    Period of Pax Romana

  • 4

    Birth of Jesus

    Birth of Jesus
  • 6

    Year Rome takes control of Jewish kingdom, making it apart of Roman Empire

  • 14

    Year when Augustus began rule

  • 14

    Year of Augustus’s death (name for Octavian after he is crowned emperor)

  • 29

    Death of Jesus

    Death of Jesus
  • 37

    Caligula

  • Period: 54 to 68

    Nero

  • Period: 66 to 70

    Year of final Jewish rebellion and start of diaspora

  • 70

    Year that Jewish temple destroyed by Romans for the last time

  • 79

    Date for eruption of Mt. Vesuvius and destruction of Pompeii

  • Period: 81 to 96

    Domitian

  • 117

    Roman Empire at its peak

    Roman Empire at its peak
  • Period: 161 to 180

    Marcus Aurelius

  • 250

    Year when Roman persecution of Christians begins

  • 284

    Rule of Diocletian

  • 284

    Year when Roman Empire permanently split into Western Roman Empire and Eastern Roman Empire

  • 312

    Rule of Constantine

  • 313

    Year Constantine accepts Christianity

  • 313

    Year of Edict of Milan and what it is

  • 325

    Year of Nicene Creed and what it is

  • 380

    Year when Christianity made official religion of Roman empire

  • 406

    Year when the Vandals attack Gaul

  • 410

    Year when the Visigoths begin attacking the Roman army

  • 446

    Year when Attila the Hun starts to enter frontier regions of Roman Empire

  • 476

    Year Western Roman Empire fell and to whom

  • Mar 16, 1453

    Year when Eastern Roman Empire was overrun by Ottoman Turks