Dr. John Lewis
Roman Political Chronology (in brief!)
 

753-510 BC Period of the Kings
            The Senate as Council of Patrician Families
            The First King: Romulus
            The Last King: Tarquin the Arrogant

510-31 BC The Early Republic
             Establishment of the Consulship, the Tribuneship and the Centuriate Assembly
450      The Twelve Tables of Roman Law
387      Sack of Rome by the Gauls
264-146    3 Wars with Carthage: the Punic Wars.  264-241; 218-202; 149-146.
241      Sicily a Roman Province
215-168   3 Macedonian Wars: 215-205; 200-197; 172-168
168      Greece and Macedonia a Roman Province
146      Destruction of Carthage and Corinth

133-31  The Decline of the Republic
133        The Affair of the Gracchi: Tiberius Gracchus 133; Gaius Gracchus 123
107-100   Gaius Marius’ “New Model Army”
90-88     Social War in Rome; Ascendance of Sulla (138-78)
88-83     War against Mithridates in Asia Minor
83-79     Sulla’s Reforms
73           Spartacus Slave Revolt; Put Down by Crassus and Pompey
63           Cicero: Consul
62           1st Triumvirate: Crassus, Pompey, Caesar
56-50     Caesar’s Conquest of Gaul
49-45     Caesar takes Army into Rome; Civil War
45           Caesar: “Dictator for Life”; Killed 3/15/44 by Brutus and Cassius
43           2nd Triumvirate:  Octavian, Antony, Lepidus
                Murder of Cicero
31           Octavian defeats Antony at Actium.  Antony and Cleopatra suicides

31 BC-285AD     Imperial Rome:  The Principate
27 BC-68 AD    The Julio-Claudian Dynasty:  Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero
69            Year of Four Emperors
69-96      The Flavian Dynasty:  Vespasian, Titus, Domitian
96-180    The Antonine Dynasty: Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius
180-192  Commodus
193          Civil War: Pertinax, Didius Iulianus
193-211  Septimius Severus  (Start of Severan Dynasty)
211-217  Caracalla
235-285  Crisis and Anarchy:  18 Emperors?

284         Imperial Rome:  the Dominate
284-305  Diocletian: the Tetrarchy; Rome re-unified
311-337  Constantine (311-324 joint rule with Licinius)
312          Constantine defeats Mexentius
315          Capital moved to Constantinople; Edict of Milan recognizes Christianity
324          Constantie defeats Licinius; is sole Emperor
325          Council of Nicea; The Nicene Creed
394          Christianity as State Religion; Pagan Cults Outlawed
395          Formal Political Division of the Empire
410          Sack of Rome by the Goths; Augustine City of God
476          End of the Empire Romulus Augustulus deposed by Odoacer, King of the Goths
1453        Fall of Constantinople to the Turks
 
 
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