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Early history
Tradition states that Romulus and Remus were raised by a wolf before founding Rome in 753 BC
1000 BC - Latins begin to settle in Italy
Republic
19th-century painting of the Gallic leader Brennus looting Rome after the Battle of the Allia in 390 BC
499 BC - A battle against foreign tribes commences, including the construction of the Temple of Castor and Pollux.
396 BC - The Etruscan city of Veio is defeated by the Romans
390 BC - Rome is sacked by the Gauls after the Battle of the Allia
380 BC - The once destroyed Servian Wall is reconstructed.
312 BC - The Via Appia and Aqua Appia are constructed.
264 - 241 BC - First Punic War
220 BC - Via Flamina is constructed.
218 - 202 BC - Second Punic War
168 BC - The Romans have a great victory in the Macedonian War , conquering Greece .
149 - 146 BC - The Third Punic War
133 BC - 120 BC - The Gracchi brothers are controversially killed.
71 BC - Spartacus is killed and his rebel army destroyed.
60 BC - Pompey , Crassus and Caesar form the first triumvirate.
59 BC - Handwritten "news posters" introduced.[1]
58-50 BC - Caesar conquers Gaul .
Imperial city
St Peter , the first Pope , was crucified in Rome in 67 AD
The Colosseum opened in 80 AD
49 BC - Caesar crosses the Rubicon in order to take Rome.
44 BC - Caesar elects himself dictator , and in March is killed by Brutus and Cassius
27 BC - Augustus is made Rome's first emperor.
13 BC - The Ara Pacis is constituted since Augustus secured his empire.
42 AD - The apostle St Peter arrives in Rome.
64 AD - The Great Fire of Rome , rumored to be blamed by Nero on the Christians.
c. 65 AD - The Romans begins to massacre Christians .
67 AD - St Peter is crucified in Rome, and similarly St Paul is executed.
72 AD - Work on the Flavian Amphitheatre (Colosseum) begins.
March, 80 AD - The inauguration of the Colosseum begins.
121 AD - Hadrian's Wall is completed.
125 AD - Emperor Hadrian has the Pantheon reconstructed to more or less how it is today.
212 AD - All the inhabitants of the empire are granted citizenship .
216 AD - Work on the Baths of Caracalla is finally over, as the building gets completed.
225 AD - Mathematicians allowed to teach publicly at Rome.
247 AD - The first millennium of Rome is celebrated.
270 AD - Construction of the Aurelian Wall begins.
274 AD - The temple of the Sun built at Rome.
284 AD - Diocletian partitions administration of the Roman Empire in half, thereby establishing the Eastern Roman Empire in Byzantium .
Early Medieval period
19th-century painting of the Visigothic Sack of Rome in 410 AD
312 - Constantine the Great defeats Maxentius at Battle of the Milvian Bridge to become the sole ruler of the Roman Empire
c.320 - Old St. Peter's Basilica is constructed.
325- Constantine convenes the First Council of Nicaea .
380 - The Christian emperor Theodosius makes Christianity the official religion of Rome, persecuting pagans and destroying temples.
402 - Ravenna becomes the capital of the Western Roman Empire, whilst Constantinople that of the east.[2]
410 - Rome is sacked by Alaric , King of the Visigoths
422 - The Church of Santa Sabina is founded.
455 - Rome is sacked by Genseric , King of the Vandals
476 - Romulus Augustulus is deposed , traditionally considered the end of the Western Roman Empire and the beginning of the Middle Ages in Europe. Byzantium continues to be the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.
496 - The first pope to achieve the Pontifex Maximus is Anastasius II .
546 - Rome is sacked by Totila , King of the Ostrogoths
c. 590 - 604 - Pope Gregory the Great makes the Christian church exceedingly strong.
609 - The Pantheon becomes a Christian church.
630 - The Church of Sant' Agnese is the first Roman church to be constructed in Byzantine style .
725 - The King Ine of Wessex is the first man to create a hostel for pilgrims to Rome.
778 - Charlemagne conquers Italy and Rome.
800 - Charlemagne is crowned the emperor in St. Peter's Basilica.
846 - During the Arab raid against Rome the moors plundered the environs of the city, including Old St. Peter's Basilica , but they were prevented from entering the city itself by the Aurelian Wall
880 - 932 - A rare occasion, the city is governed by women, Theodora and later her daughter Marozia.
961 - King Otto the Great of Germany becomes in Rome the first Holy Roman Emperor .
High Middle Ages
The Papal throne in the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran dates from the 13th century
1084 - The city of Rome is attacked by the Normans
1108 - The church of San Clemente is in this year rebuilt.
1140 - The church of Santa Maria in Trastevere is restored.
1200 - The city becomes an independent commune
1232 - The cloisters in the Basilica of St. John Lateran are finished.
1300 - Pope Boniface VIII proclaims the First Holy Year.
1309 - The Papacy is moved to Avignon under Pope Clement V
1347 - The patriot and rebel Cola di Rienzo tries to restore the Roman Republic.
1348 - As in most of Europe, the Black Death strikes Rome.
Roman Renaissance
From 1508 to 1512, Michelangelo painted the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Baroque period
The Church of the Gesù was the first Baroque structure, built in 1568
The current St. Peter's Basilica was finished in 1626
19th century and Risorgimento
Illustration of the proclamation of the 1849 Roman Republic in the Piazza del Popolo .
20th century and modern Rome
The Altare della Patria was built in honour of King Victor Emmanuel II in 1911
Fascists, led by Benito Mussolini , at the March on Rome in 1922
See also
Other cities in Italy
References
^ Steven Anzovin and Janet Podell, ed. (2000). Famous First Facts . H.W. Wilson Co. ISBN 0824209583 .
^ Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis. Ravenna in Late Antiquity , Cambridge University Press, 2014, p. 46. ISBN 9781107612907
Further reading
J. Willoughby Rosse (1859). "Rome". Index of Dates ... Facts in the Chronology and History of the World . London: H.G. Bohn – via Hathi Trust. ;
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