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This is a timeline of Roman history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the Roman Kingdom and Republic and the Roman and Byzantine Empires. To read about the background of these events, see Ancient Rome and History of the Byzantine Empire.
Explore the timline of Rome. According to legend, Ancient Rome was founded by the two brothers, and demigods, Romulus and Remus, on 21 April 753 BCE. The legend claims that in an argument over who would rule the city (or, in another...
14 paź 2009 · Beginning in the eighth century B.C., Ancient Rome grew from a small town on central Italy’s Tiber River into an empire that at its peak encompassed most of continental Europe, Britain,...
9 sie 2018 · This Roman timeline charts the major events of ancient Rome, from its legendary beginnings to the rise of the Republic and Empire, and finally its dissolution. Over 1,500 years since the fall of the Western Roman empire, its legacy endures.
According to the legend, Rome was founded in 753 BCE by two brothers, Romulus and Remus. 7 settlements from 7 hills coalesced into one organism. Etruscan domination in central and northern Italy. The overthrow and exile of the last king of Rome, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, and the establishment of the Roman Republic.
The Timeline of Ancient Rome spans the period between the Foundation of the City of Rome by Romulus in 753 BCE and the Deposition of the last Western Roman Emperor in 476 CE. The Eastern Roman Empire, or Byzantine Empire, continued with its capital at Constantinople between 330-1453 CE.
Roman history can be divided into the following periods: Pre-historical and early Rome, covering Rome's earliest inhabitants and the legend of its founding by Romulus. The period of Etruscan dominance and the regal period, in which, according to tradition, Romulus was the first of seven kings.
