Roman Time Line
Your representation does not have to be a line but can be in any
form you wish but it must have the three eras of Rome represented in some
way, at least the dates listed below, and some indication of the rise and
fall of each era and the rise and fall of the Roman Empire.
Divide the time line into three segments
Archaic (developmental era)
Republic (classical Rome)
Empire (spreading of the ideals of the civilization)
Place the dates listed below on your time line
Place some cultural symbols of the Roman civilization on the time
line
1000 BC Latiums enter the Northern Italian Peninsula
800 BC Etruscans are an established tribe
753 BC City of Rome is built (myth of Romulus and Remus)
509 BC Last Etruscan Tarquin king is overthrown
Roman Republic is established by the original Twelve
Tribes of the Italian Peninsula
450 BC Twelve Tables established
264 BC -
Punic War (series of wars for control of the Mediterranean
Sea trade)
146 BC
133 BC Agrarian reforms of the Grachhi begin
73-71 BC Spartacus slave revolts
59 BC Julius Caesar wins the Gaul campaign
46 BC Julius Caesar named First Counsel by the Senate
or dictator for life
44 BC Julius Caesar is assassinated
31 BC Battle at Actium between Mark Anthony and Octavian
27 BC Octavian names himself Caesar Augustus first Emperor
of Rome
14 AD -
25 AD Virgil writes the Aeneid
Pax Romana
79 AD Colosseum built
180 AD
300 AD Diocletian splits the empire into east (Byzantine)
and west (Rome)
313 AD Constantine declares religious tolerance through
the Edict of Milan
455 AD Vandals sacked Rome
476 AD Odacer, chief of the Visogoths, attacks Rome and
overthrows the last Roman emperor Romulus Agustulus