Timeline

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Rome and Italy

753
The city Rome is founded.

616-579
Tarquinius I succeeds to the throne.

Rome grows.

579-534
The tribus, the constitution and the army are reorganized.

534-509
Tarquinius II succeeds to the throne.

509
Rome becomes a republic.
Rome becomes the most important city of his surroundings, Latium.

499
De Latins are defeated near the lake of Regillus.

The Sabins, the Vosci and the Aequi are making invations.

Dominion of the patricians.

420
The Samnites occupy Campania.

405-396
Siege and occypation of Veii.

Gallics plunder Rome.

340
War with the Latins.

338
Roman Empire enrol Campania.

334-264
Rome colonizes and conquers Italy.

327-304
Second Samnitic war.

298-290
Third Samnitic war.

280-275
Invasion of Phyrrus.

280
First Roman coins as currency.

264-241
First war with Carthago.

167
Direct taxes Roman citizens abolished.

102-101
Teutons and Cimbri beated.

91-89
Ally-war.

83-82
Civil war: Sulla becomes dictator.

73-71
Spartacus rebels.

49-44
Civil war: Ceasar becomes dictator.

44
Ceasar is killed.

31 B.C. - 14 A.D.
Octavianus (Augustus) becomes the first Emperor of the Empire.

64
Conflagration in Rome.

79
The Vesuvius erupts; Pompeii and other cities are burried under a thick lay of ash.

117-93
Antonian Emperors.

212
All inhabitants at liberty of the Roman Empire get the civil rights.

303-305
Great Christian-persecution.

313
Religious liberty is mended.

324-337
Constantine becomes the absolute monarch of the Empire.

395
The Empire is divided in the West- and East-Roman Empire.

402
The imperial court is moved to Ravenna.

410
Visigots empty Rome.

455
Vandals plunder Rome.

476
The latest West-Roman emperor is dethroned.

476-540
Barbarian kings in Ravenna.

540
Byzantium reconquers Italy.

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Art and Architecture.

The first primitive cottages on the Palatine.

Rich graves in Caere.

The Forum Romanum is build;
first permanent buildings of stone in Rome.

560 v. Chr.
The temples of Diana, Fortuna and Mater Matuta are build.

Servius Tullius builds city walls.

Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus is build.

509
Etruskian grave-paintings.

497
Temple of Saturnus is build.

493
Temple of Ceres is build.

484
Temple of Castor is build.

431
Temple of Apollo is build.

387
The city-walls of Rome are rebuilt.

312
TThe Via Appia and the Aqua Appia are built.

Blossom-time of the Roman fine-earthwork-industries.

221
Circus Flaminius is build.

200
The Greek art is braught to Rome.

184
The Basilica Porcia is build on the Roman Empire.

179
The Basilica Aemilia and the Pont Aemilius are build.

120
The Fortunatemple in Praeneste is build.

78
Tabularium.

55
The Theater of Pompeius is build.

46
The Forum of Ceasar is build.

21
The bow of August is build.

19
The Thermae of Agripinna are build.

17
The Theater of Marcellus is build.

2
The Forum of Augustus is build.

Augustus executes a buildingprogram for Rome.

79
Consecration of theColosseum.

112
Consecration of the Forum of Trajanus.

118-128
The Pantheon is rebuilded.

126-134
Villa Hadriana, Tivoli.

216
The Thermae of Caracalla are build in Rome, in charge of Severus and Leptis Magna.

271
Aurelianus builds city-walls around Rome.

The bow of Constantine.

Churchbuildingprograms in Rome, Jerusalem and Constantinople.

Mosaics in churces in Ravenna.

537-560
The Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is rebuilded.

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Latin literature

600
Oldest Latin inscriptions.

451
The Twelve Tables with Roman laws.

Important politican from this time:
Appius Claudius Caecus.

Important playwrights and poets from this time:
Livius Andronicus, Naevius, Plautus, Ennius, Statius Caecillus and Pacuvius.

Important historian and man of learning from this time:
Cato.

Important playwrights from this time:
Terentius and Accius.

Important historians from this time:
L. Carpurnius Piso and Caelius Antipater.

Important lawyers and politican from this time:
C. Grachhus, L. Crassus and Q. Hortensius.

Important lawyer and philosopher from this time:
Cicero.

Important lawyer and historian from this time: Ceasar.

Important poet and philosopher from this time:
Lucretius.

Important historian from this time:
Sallustius and Livius.

Important poets from this time:
Catullus, Vergillius, Horatius, Tibullus, Propertius and Ovidius.

Important orator from this time:
Seneca the Older.

Important poets from this time:
Persius, Lucanus and Martialis.

Important biologist from this time:
Plinius the Older.

Important letter-writer from this time:
Plinius the Younger.

Important historian from this time:
Tacitus.

Important poet from this time:
Juvenalis.

Important historian from this time:
Suetonius.

Important author from this time:
Apuleius.

Important lawyers from this time:
Ulpianus and Papinianus.

Important christian author from this time:
Tertullianus.

Important poets from this time:
Ausonius and Claudianus.

Important christian authors from this time:
Ambrosius, Hieronymus and Augustinus.

Important orator from this time:
Symmachus.

Important historian from this time:
Ammianus Marcellinus.

404
Hieronymus translates the Old Testament into Latin.

Important historian from this time:
Orosius.

Important men of learning from this time:
Servius and Macrobius. 429
Codex Theodosianus.

Important poet from this time:
Sidonius Apollinaris.

Important philosopher from this time:
Boethius.

Important historian and statesman from this time:
Cassiodors.

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