Download Foundation legend – 753 BCE

ROME
ROME
753 BCE – Foundation legend
753 – 507 BCE – Tyrants/wealthy families – Council of Elders/Senate;
Seven kings
507 – 31 BCE – Roman Republic
Votes – class; role of consuls
Roman Senate – made policy/governed, served for life, nominated
sons
Patricians/Plebeians
450 BCE – Twelve Tables
tribunes
400s BCE – Rome took most of Italy – Italians granted Roman
citizenship
264 – 202 BCE – Two wars against Carthaginians (gained control of western
Mediterranean)
200 – 146 BCE – wars against Hellenistic kingdoms in eastern
Mediterranean
(3rd/2nd centuries BCE – Italian farmers away for military service;
growth of latifundia)
88 – 31 CE – Sulla, Pompey, Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, and Octavian
fight for power/unprecedented control over armies
59 – 51 BCE – Julius Caesar conquers Gaul (France)
31 BCE – Establishment of principate by Augustus (parts of Middle
East/Central Europe added to empire); growth of the equites; question of
succession of emperors
66 – 73 CE – First Jewish – Roman War
100s CE – emperors adopted capable successors; no new sources of slaves
(expensive); pax romana; Romanization
212 CE – citizenship to all free, adult males
235 – 284 CE – Third – Century Crisis
284 – 305 CE – Diocletian pulls things together…
324 CE – Constantine transfers imperial capital to Byzantium
325 CE – Council of Nicaea
392 CE – pagan ceremonies banned
395 CE – split between east (Constantinople – Byzantium) and west
(Rome)
410 CE – Rome sacked by Visigoths
476 CE – last Roman emperor deposed
527 – 565 CE – reign of Justinian
530 CE – Western Roman Empire split into separate kingdoms; Rome still
753 BCE – Foundation legend
753 – 507 BCE – Tyrants/wealthy families – Council of Elders/Senate;
Seven kings
507 – 31 BCE – Roman Republic
Votes – class; role of consuls
Roman Senate – made policy/governed, served for life, nominated
sons
Patricians/Plebeians
450 BCE – Twelve Tables
tribunes
400s BCE – Rome took most of Italy – Italians granted Roman citizenship
264 – 202 BCE – Two wars against Carthaginians (gained control of western
Mediterranean)
200 – 146 BCE – wars against Hellenistic kingdoms in eastern
Mediterranean
(3rd/2nd centuries BCE – Italian farmers away for military service; growth of
latifundia)
88 – 31 CE – Sulla, Pompey, Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, and Octavian
fight for power/unprecedented control over armies
59 – 51 BCE – Julius Caesar conquers Gaul (France)
31 BCE – Establishment of principate by Augustus (parts of Middle
East/Central Europe added to empire); growth of the equites; question of
succession of emperors
66 – 73 CE – First Jewish – Roman War
100s CE – emperors adopted capable successors; no new sources of slaves
(expensive); pax romana; Romanization
212 CE – citizenship to all free, adult males
235 – 284 CE – Third – Century Crisis
284 – 305 CE – Diocletian pulls things together…
324 CE – Constantine transfers imperial capital to Byzantium
325 CE – Council of Nicaea
392 CE – pagan ceremonies banned
395 CE – split between east (Constantinople – Byzantium) and west (Rome)
410 CE – Rome sacked by Visigoths
476 CE – last Roman emperor deposed
527 – 565 CE – reign of Justinian
530 CE – Western Roman Empire split into separate kingdoms; Rome still
important for Christianity
important for Christianity