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Roman Law and Society, A Short Chronology of Roman History 1
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The Monarchy:
c. 753 B. C. Founding of Rome (April 21, 753)
The Republic:
c. 509 B. C. Republic established (Res Publica)
c. 509-350 B. C. Wars with surrounding tribes (Etruscans, Latins, Gauls, etc.)
c. 490-281 B. C. The Struggle of the Orders (Patricians vs. Plebeians)
c. 450 B. C. Law of the Twelve Tables
c. 390 B. C. Rome captured by the Gauls
c. 350-338 B. C. Rome subdues the Latin League
341-264 Romes conquest of Italy
341-280 B. C. The Samnite Wars
264-146 B. C. Romes conquest of the Mediterranean world
264-146 B. C. Wars with Carthage:
1st Punic War (Conquest of Sicily): 264-241 B. C.
2d Punic War (Hannabalic War): 218-202 B. C.
3rd Punic War (Carthage destroyed): 149-146 B. C.
200-146 B. C. Wars in the East:
1st Macedonian War: 215-206 B. C.
2d Macedonian War: 200-196 B. C.
War with Antiochus the Great of Syria: 191-188 B. C.
3rd Macedonian War: 171-167 B. C.
Achaean War (Corinth destroyed) 146 B. C.
133-31 B. C. The Roman Revolution (from Republic to Empire)
133-121 B. C. The Gracchi brothers attempt reforms -murdered
112-31 B. C. Foreign Wars of the Late Republic:
Jugurthine War (112-105 B. C.)
Cimbric Wars (113-101 B. C.)
Wars against Mithridates of Pontus (89-63 B. C.)
Caesars Conquest of Gaul (58-50 B. C.)
88-82 B. C. First Period of Civil Wars (Marius and Sulla)
49-45 B. C. Second Period of Civil Wars (Caesar and Pompey)
44 B. C. Caesar assassinated (March 15, 44 B. C.)
43-31 B. C. Third Period of Civil Wars (Octavian, Brutus, Antony)
31 B. C. Battle of Actium (Octavian defeats Antony) -end of Civil Wars
The Empire:
27 B. C.-A.D. 68 The Julio-Claudian Emperors (Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero)
69 Year of the Four Emperors (Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian)
69-96 The Flavian Emperors (Vespasian, Titus, Domitian)
96-180 The Five Good Emperors (Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius)
180-193 Commodus, Pertinax, Didius Julianus (Empire auctioned off by Praetorian Guard)
193-235 The Severan Dynasty (Septimius Severus, Caracalla, Severus Alexander)
235- c. 270 The "Time of Troubles"
Germanic tribes breach northern frontiers
Persians seize East (Zenobia of Palmyra)
Gaul breaks free into separate empire
Economy collapses.
270-275 Aurelian -Restitutor orbis
284-305 Diocletian and the Tetrarchy -Four co-emperors rule Empire
312-337 Constantine the Great reunites the Empire
330 Constantinople founded
376 Visigoths cross the Danube.
Battle of Adrianople -death of Emperor Valens (378)
378-395 Theodosius the Great -last ruler of united Empire
406 Germanic tribes invade the Western Empire
476 Last Roman emperor in the West deposed (Romulus Augustulus)
527-565 Justinian the Great
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1453 The Ottoman Turks capture Constantinople
May 29, 1453 -Death of Constantine XI
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