History of Rome

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  • 753 BCE

    MONARCHY

    Founding of Rome
  • 509 BCE

    REPUBLIC

    Beginning of the republic
  • Period: 509 BCE to 509

    Expulsion of the etruscan king

    The aristocratic families of Rome, with the support of the people, put an end to the last Etruscan king: Tarquino el Soberbio, who ruled like a tyrant.
  • Period: 264 BCE to 241 BCE

    First punic war

    Rome faced, in the so-called Punic Wars, Carthage, the maritime power that at that time dominated the Mediterranean.
  • Period: 45 BCE to 44 BCE

    César is assassinated

  • 27 BCE

    EMPIRE

    Beginning of the Roman empire
  • Period: 27 BCE to 27 BCE

    Octavio augisto first emperor

    After the death of Cesar, and after winning a civil war, his adoptive son Octavio transformed the republic into an empire.
  • Period: 476 to 476

    Fall of the western roman empire

    The western empire, much more impoverished, the emperors were incapable of safeguarding it. The Germanic peoples occupied the territory and created independent kingdoms.