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753 BC Rome was founded by Romulus. Romulus was the first of the seven Roman kings. The original name of Rome was Roma.
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509 BC The last king is expelled and Rome is now ruled by senators. There is a constitution with laws and Rome becomes a complex republican government.
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218 BC Hannibal leads the Carthage arny to attack Italy. This starts the second Punic War.
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27BC Octavius appoints himself "Augustus", which means the first emperor.
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64 Nero set fire to Rome and blames the Christians for it.
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45 BC Julius Caesar defeats Pompey in a civil war. He becomes the supreme ruler of Rome. This is the end of the Roman Republic. He hires Sosigenes, an Egyptian astronomer, to work out a new 12 month calendar. 44 BC Julius Caesar is assassinated.
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380 Theodosius I proclaims Christianity as the sole religion of the Roman Empire in 380 AD.
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306 AD Rome becomes a Christian empire. Before this, Rome persecuted the Christians. Constantius dies. His son Constantine is the new vice-emperor of Galerius.
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In 395 AD, Rome split into two empires - the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire. Each side had a ruler in charge of it. The Roman Empire was split by Theodosius.
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The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage from 264 BC to 146 BC.The main cause of the Punic Wars was conflicts between the Carthaginian Empire and the Roman Republic.
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Julius Caesar becomes the supreme ruler of Rome. Ending the Roman Republic. He then gets assassinated in 44 BC.
