Timeline

ca. 1184 B.C - The Fall of Troy and the Wandeings of Aneas

The Regal Period

753 B.C. - The Founding of Rome by Romulus

753-509 B.C. -The Kings of Rome (Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Tullius Hostilius, Ancus Maricus, Tarquinius Priscus, Servius Tullius, Tarquinius Superbus)

The Republic

509-264 B.C. -The Early Republic

-Legendary Heros of Early Rome (Horatius, Mucius Scaevola, Cloelia, Cincinnatus)

-Invasion of the Gauls

-War with Pyrrhus

264-241 B.C. - The First Punic War

218-201 B.C. - The Second Punic War

201-146 B.C. - Rome Becomes a World Leader-- the Third Punic War

146-43 B.C. -Deadly Struglles within the Roman Republic (The Grachii, Gaius Martius, Lucuius Cornelius Sulla, Gnaeus Pompeius)

63-44 B.C - The Collapse of the Republics (Marcus Tullius Cicero, Gaius Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, Cleopatra, Octavian)

The Empire

31 B.C. - A.D. 14 - The Augustan Age

A.D 14- 180 - The Early Empire:

The Julio-Claudians: Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero

The Flavians: Vespian, Titus, Domitian

The Five Good Emperors: Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius

A.D 211- 476 - The Late Empire (Caracalla, Diocletian, Constantine)

A.D. 330 - Founding of Constantinople

A.D. 403 - Legio XX defeats Alaric the Visigoth

A.D. 476 - Romulus Augustulus, last of the Roman emperors, overthrown by Odoacer the German.