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The year that Romulus and Remus founded Rome
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The last king is overthrown and Rome is now ruled by elected officials called senators.
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After Rome emerged victorious, the settlement they imposed underpinned subsequent Roman conquests of Italy and overseas territories.
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Was fought over control of the island of Sicily, and many of the crucial clashes were naval battles.
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Hannibal leads the Carthage army in his famous crossing of the Alps to attack Rome.
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saw the famous invasion of Italy by Carthaginian general Hannibal. Although Roman resilience and resources were stretched to near breaking point by a string of defeats.
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The Third Macedonian War was a war fought between the Roman Republic and King Perseus of Macedon.
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Was a foregone conclusion, in which Rome was finally successful in destroying its hated rival.
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Pompey initially went to the east in 67 BC as part of his campaign against pirates who were infesting the Mediterranean. Having crushed the pirates in just three months, in 66 BC Pompey succeeded to the command against the long-term enemy of Rome.
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The Siege of Jerusalem occurred during Pompey the Great's campaigns in the east, shortly after his successful conclusion of the Third Mithridatic War.
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Caesar makes his famous Crossing of the Rubicon and defeats Pompey in a civil war to become the supreme ruler of Rome.
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Julius Caesar makes Rome a dictatorship.
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Marcus Brutus and others stab him to death.
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Julius Caesar is killed and there is a outrage.
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Augustus had in effect reintroduced one-man rule, and become Rome’s first emperor. Augustus spent years experimenting with his constitutional position.
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Caesar Augustus becomes the first Roman Emperor.
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Legend has it that Emperor Nero watched the city burn while playing a lyre.
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One of the great examples of Roman engineering is finished. It can seat 50,000 spectators.
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To keep out the barbarians a long wall is built across northern England.
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Was an unsuccessful slave rebellion against the Roman Republic. The war was prompted by slave revolts in Enna on the island of Sicily.
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This was a time span where Rome couldn't keep any leaders because they were getting assassinated. There was also a lot of revolts.
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In the 50 years between AD 235 and 284, the Roman empire suffered chronic political and military instability. Amid endemic civil wars and defeats at the hands of barbarians, emperors came and went with bewildering rapidity.
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Constantine would convert to Christianity and Rome would become a Christian empire.
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Theodosius I proclaims Christianity as the sole religion of the Roman Empire in 380 AD.
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Rome was to big to govern by one person split into Eastern and Western.
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This is the first time in 800 years that the city of Rome has fallen to an enemy.
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The last Roman Emperor Romulus Augustus is defeated by the German Goth Odoacer.
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With them getting defeated they lost the empire and sparked another time period.
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The Byzantine Empire gets attacked and loses to the Ottoman Empire.
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The empire was renamed to Istanbul.
