Nolumus moti esse, non movebimur
Velut arbor sata propinqua aquae non movebimur
last revised Feb. 21, 2004
| Click on the map and the timeline below for more information about the history of the Rome. Click here to see a map showing the territorial expansion of the Roman Empire. Click here for a big map in PDF format. |
| According to legend, the city of Rome was founded 753 years before the Christian era. Romans counted their years from the founding of the city, "ab urbe condita." | |
| The Seven Kings of Rome | |
| 1-37 A.U.C. | Romulus |
| 38 - 80 A.U.C. | Numa Pompilius |
| 81 - 112 A.U.C. | Tullus Hostilius |
| 113 - 136 A.U.C. | Ancus Marcius |
| 137 - 174 A.U.C. | Lucius Tarquinius Priscus |
| 175 - 218 A.U.C. | Servius Tullius |
| 219 - 243 A.U.C. | Lucius Tarquinius Superbus |
| 244 A.U.C. | Traditional date of the founding of the Roman Republic |
| 413 - 415 A.U.C. | First Samnite War |
| 416 - 418 A.U.C. | Latin War |
| 427 - 449 A.U.C. | Second Samnite War |
| 432 A.U.C. | Battle of the Caudine Forks |
| 455 - 463 A.U.C. | Third Samnite War |
| 471 - 481 A.U.C. | War with Pyrrhus |
| 489 - 512 A.U.C. | First Punic War |
| 512 A.U.C. | Sicilia |
| 515 A.U.C. | Sardinia |
| 523(?) A.U.C. | Corsica |
| 524 - 525 A.U.C. | First Illyrian War |
| 528 - 531 A.U.C. | Campaign against the Celts in the Po Valley |
| 535 - 552 A.U.C. | Second Punic War |
| 538 - 548 A.U.C. | First Macedonian War |
| 548 A.U.C. | Hispania Citerior |
| Hispania Ulterior | |
| 553 - 556 A.U.C. | Second Macedonian War |
| 561 - 564 A.U.C. | Syrian War |
| 562(?) A.U.C. | Gallia Cisalpina |
| 582 - 586 A.U.C. | Third Macedonian War |
| 583 A.U.C. | Illyricum |
| 604 - 607 A.U.C. | Third Punic War |
| 604 - 605 A.U.C. | Fourth Macedonian War |
| 607 A.U.C. | Africa (Carthage) |
| Macedonia | |
| Achaea | |
| 610 - 620 A.U.C. | War in Lusitania |
| 618 - 621 A.U.C. | First Servile War |
| 624 A.U.C. | King of Pergamum leaves his kingdom as a bequest to Rome (province of Asia) |
| 630 A.U.C. | Balearic Islands |
| 632 A.U.C. | Gallia Narbonensis |
| 642 - 648 A.U.C. | Jugurthine War |
| 647 A.U.C. | Africa (Tripolitana) |
| 650 - 654 A.U.C. | Second Servile War (Sicily) |
| 662 - 665 A.U.C. | Social War |
| 665 - 669 A.U.C. | First Mithridatic War |
| 665 - 671 A.U.C. | Civil War in Rome |
| 670 - 672 A.U.C. | Second Mithridatic War |
| 671 A.U.C. | Battle of the Colline Gate |
| Dictatorship of Sulla | |
| 679 A.U.C. | Cyrenaica |
| Bithynia | |
| 679 - 689 A.U.C. | Third Mithridatic War |
| 680 - 682 A.U.C. | Third Servile War (Spartacus' Rebellion) |
| 685 - 686 A.U.C. | War with the Pirates |
| 686 A.U.C. | Crete |
| 689 A.U.C. | Syria |
| Cilicia | |
| 689 - 690 A.U.C. | Catiline Conspiracy |
| 693 A.U.C. | First Triumvirate (Caesar, Crassus & Pompey) |
| 695 A.U.C. | Cyprus |
| 695 - 702 A.U.C. | Conquest of Gaul |
| 699 A.U.C. | Caesar invades Britain |
| 702 A.U.C. | Breakup of the Triumvirate |
| 704 A.U.C. | Caesar crosses the Rubicon |
| 705 A.U.C. | Battle of Pharsalus |
| 706 A.U.C. | Chersonesus Taurica |
| 707 A.U.C. | Suicide of Cato in Africa |
| Numidia | |
| 709 A.U.C. | Assassination of Caesar |
| 710 A.U.C. | Second Triumvirate (Antony, Lepidus, Octavian) |
| Execution of Cicero | |
| 722 A.U.C. | Battle of Actium |
| 723 A.U.C. | Egypt |
| 726 A.U.C. | Roman Empire |
| 728 A.U.C. | Galatia |
| 737 - 738 A.U.C. | Annexation of the Alpine provinces (Rhaetia, Noricum, Vindelicia) |
| 749 A.U.C. | Birth of Jesus |
| 759 A.U.C. | Moesia |
| 763 A.U.C. | Pannonia |
| 770 A.U.C. | Cappadocia |
| 783 A.U.C. | Roman governor Pontius Pilate executes Jesus |
| 793 A.U.C. | Mauretania |
| 796 A.U.C. | Britain |
| Lycia | |
| 797 A.U.C. | Judaea |
| 799 A.U.C. | Thrace |
| 816 A.U.C. | Pontus |
| 819 - 823 A.U.C. | Revolt in Judaea |
| 832 A.U.C. | Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius |
| 854 - 860 A.U.C. | Dacian Wars |
| 858 A.U.C. | Arabia Petraea |
| 859 - 1028 A.U.C. | Dacia |
| 866 - 870 A.U.C. | Parthian War |
| 867 - 870 A.U.C. | Armenia |
| 868 - 870 A.U.C. | Mesopotamia and Babylonia |
| 950 - 951 A.U.C. | Parthian War |
| 1003 A.U.C. | Goths overrun Chersonesus Taurica |
| 1028 A.U.C. | Dacia abandoned |
| 1059 - 1090 A.U.C. | CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Emperor |
| 1065 A.U.C. | Edict of Milan |
| 1078 A.U.C. | Council of Nicaea |
| 1132 A.U.C. | Final split between East and West |
| 1146 A.U.C. | Christianity the official state religion of Rome |
| 1160 A.U.C. | Evacuation of Britain |
| 1163 A.U.C. | Visigoths sack Rome |
| 1182 - 1192 A.U.C. | Vandals conquer North Africa |
| 1228 A.U.C. | Emperor Romulus Augustus deposed by Odoacer |
| 1239 A.U.C. | Clovis, king of the Franks, conquers Gaul |
| 1241 A.U.C. | Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, conquers Italy |
| 1253 A.U.C. | The Visigoths take control of Spain |
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