ROMAN HISTORY TIMELINE

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ROMAN HISTORY TIMELINE
AUGUSTUS CAESAR VESPASIAN
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IMPORTANT DATES IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE

• c. 1000 BC Latins settle in Latium
• c. 625 BC Historical founding of Rome
• 509 BC Founding of the Republic
• 450 BC Publication of Twelve Tables (Roman
  Laws established)
• 264 241 BC First Punic Wars
• 241BC Sicily becomes a Roman province

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Sicily, Italy
The island that both Carthage and Rome wanted
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• 218 202 BC Second Punic Wars
• 218 BC Hannibal invades Sagunto, Spain
• 217-216 BC Romans defeated at Lake Trasimene
  and Cannae by Hannibal.
• 202 BC Hannibal defeated at Zama and Rome
  wins the second Punic Wars
• 149 146 BC Third Punic War
• 146 BC Complete destruction of Carthage

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Romes greatest General of the Punic War
Scipio Africanus Roman General that defeated
Hannibal and Avenged his fathers death
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Carthaginian War Elephant
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SPAIN Land claimed by both Carthage and Rome
Start of the 2nd Punic War
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Ruins at Sagunto, Spain (the town that sparked
the Second Punic War).
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Mr. Mispagel at Sagunto the city in Spain that
sparked the Second Punic Wars.
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Romes nemesis Hannibal
Entrance to the city of Sagunto surrounded by
city walls My daughter Colleen in the background
to show the scale.
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The walls that surround the ancient city of
Sagunto
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Ruins at Sugunto all that remain of a once
great city captured by Hannibal in his quest to
drive the Romans out of Spain
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• 73 71 BC Slave revolts of Spartacus
• 58 50 BC Caesars Gallic Wars
• 49 BC Caesar crosses the Rubicon and
  becomes a dictator
• 46 BC Veni Vidi Vici Caesar invades Pontus
• 44 BC Assassination of Caesar
• 31 BC Egypt under Roman control
• 27 BC Octavian becomes ruler and takes the
  name Augustus

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Assassination of Caesar
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• AD 14 Death of Augustus
• c. AD 30 Crucifixion of Jesus Christ
• AD 43 Invasion of Britain
• AD 61 Revolt in Britain (Boudicca)
• AD 79 Eruption of Vesuvius (destruction
  of Pompeii)
• AD 80 Opening of Coliseum
• AD 101 Trajan invades Dacia
• AD 117 Roman Empire at its greatest extent
  during Hadrians reign

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Iceni Queen Boudicca revolts against the Romans
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Rome at its greatest extent
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• c. AD 127 Hadrians Wall completed
• AD 167 First barbarians start to cross the
  Danube River
• AD 212 Romans grant free citizenship to
  all free inhabitants of the empire
• AD 286 Diocletian separates eastern and
  western empire
• AD 330 Constantine makes Byzantium
  (Constantinople) capital of Empire not Rome.

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• AD 410 Rome sacked by Alaric the Goth
• AD 455 Vandals sack Rome and loot the city
  causing complete destruction
• AD 476 End of the Western Roman Empire
• AD 1453 Constantinople falls to the Ottoman
  Turks marking the end of the Eastern Roman
  Empire.