Roman Empire Timeline
509 BCE
80 AD
45 BCE
27 BCE
218 BCE
64 AD
753 BCE
Roman Empire begins.
Colosseum is built.
Rome becomes a republic.
The year that Rome was built.
Hannibal invades Italy.
Julius Caesar becomes the first dictator of Rome.
Much of Rome burns.
- Octavius appoints himself "Augustus", which means the first emperor.
- Rome was founded by Romulus.
- The completion of the colosseum was celebrated with 100 days of games and the Romans invaded Scotland.
- Hannibal leads the Carthage army to attack Italy.
- Julius Caesar defeats Pompey in a Civil War.
- The last king was expelled and now the empire is ruled by senators.
- Nero set fire to Rome and Rome blamed Christians.
476 AD
122 AD
1453 AD
380 AD
395 AD
410 AD
306 AD
Christianity
Rome splits
The Visigoths sack Rome
The Byzantine Empire ends
Hadrian wall is built.
Constantine becomes Emperor
End of the Western Roman Empire and the fall of Ancient Rome.
- First time in a while that Rome had fallen to an enemy.
- Theodosius 1 proclaims Christianity as the sole religion of the Roman Empire.
- It was a long wall built northern England to keep the barbarians out.
- Rome splits into 2 empires, Easter and Western Roman Empire.
- Rome becomes a Christian empire.
- The last Roman Emperor Romulus Augustus is defeated by the German Goth Odoacer.
- The Byzantine Empire comes to an end and falls to the Ottoman Empire.
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