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753 BCE
Traditional date for the founding of Rome
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Period: 753 BCE to 509 BCE
Period of the kings in Rome
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509 BCE
Rape of Lucretia and the Revolution of 509
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509 BCE
Temple of Jupiter completed
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509 BCE
Rome concludes a treaty with Carthage
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496 BCE
Battle of Lake Regillus
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494 BCE
The founding of the tribunate
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494 BCE
The First Secession
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Period: 494 BCE to 287 BCE
Conflict of the Orders
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Period: 451 BCE to 450 BCE
The Twelve Tables
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Period: 405 BCE to 396 BCE
Siege of Veii
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390 BCE
Battle of the Allia
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390 BCE
Sack of Rome by the Gauls
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367 BCE
Leges Liciniae Sextiae
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342 BCE
Lex Genucia
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Period: 328 BCE to 302 BCE
Second Samnite War
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326 BCE
Abolishing of debt slavery
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321 BCE
The Caudine Forks
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300 BCE
Lex Ogulnia
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287 BCE
Lex Hortensia
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280 BCE
War with Pyrrhus commences
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280 BCE
Battle of Heraclea
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279 BCE
Battle of Asculum
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275 BCE
Battle of Beneventum
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Period: 264 BCE to 241 BCE
First Punic War
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Period: 261 BCE to 260 BCE
Rome constructs a fleet
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219 BCE
Siege of Saguntum
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218 BCE
Battles of Ticinus and the Trebia
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Period: 218 BCE to 202 BCE
Second Punic War
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217 BCE
Battle of Lake Trasimene
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216 BCE
Battle of Cannae
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202 BCE
Battle of Zama
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Period: 149 BCE to 146 BCE
Third Punic War
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146 BCE
Defeat and destruction of Carthage and Corinth