Rome C.773-146 BCE

  • 753 BCE

    Traditional date for the founding of Rome

  • Period: 753 BCE to 509 BCE

    Period of the kings in Rome

  • 509 BCE

    Rape of Lucretia and the Revolution of 509

  • 509 BCE

    Temple of Jupiter completed

  • 509 BCE

    Rome concludes a treaty with Carthage

  • 496 BCE

    Battle of Lake Regillus

  • 494 BCE

    The founding of the tribunate

  • 494 BCE

    The First Secession

  • Period: 494 BCE to 287 BCE

    Conflict of the Orders

  • Period: 451 BCE to 450 BCE

    The Twelve Tables

  • Period: 405 BCE to 396 BCE

    Siege of Veii

  • 390 BCE

    Battle of the Allia

  • 390 BCE

    Sack of Rome by the Gauls

  • 367 BCE

    Leges Liciniae Sextiae

  • 342 BCE

    Lex Genucia

  • Period: 328 BCE to 302 BCE

    Second Samnite War

  • 326 BCE

    Abolishing of debt slavery

  • 321 BCE

    The Caudine Forks

  • 300 BCE

    Lex Ogulnia

  • 287 BCE

    Lex Hortensia

  • 280 BCE

    War with Pyrrhus commences

  • 280 BCE

    Battle of Heraclea

  • 279 BCE

    Battle of Asculum

  • 275 BCE

    Battle of Beneventum

  • Period: 264 BCE to 241 BCE

    First Punic War

  • Period: 261 BCE to 260 BCE

    Rome constructs a fleet

  • 219 BCE

    Siege of Saguntum

  • 218 BCE

    Battles of Ticinus and the Trebia

  • Period: 218 BCE to 202 BCE

    Second Punic War

  • 217 BCE

    Battle of Lake Trasimene

  • 216 BCE

    Battle of Cannae

  • 202 BCE

    Battle of Zama

  • Period: 149 BCE to 146 BCE

    Third Punic War

  • 146 BCE

    Defeat and destruction of Carthage and Corinth