Timeline for Ancient Roman History

adapted from the tables given by Sir John Edwin Sandys in A Companion to Latin Studies, Third Edition, Cambridge at the University Press, 1921

THE MONARCHY

753

Rome founded.

Creation of Senate and Equites.

510

The Tarquins ejected. Foundation of the Repuiblic

THE REPUBLIC

494

First Secession and creation of the Tribunate of the plebs.

264-241

First Punic War

218-201

Second Punic War

151-134

Third Punic War

59-53

First Triumvirate: consisted of Julius Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey the Great; ended with the death of Crassus

49

Caesar crosses the Rubicon

48

Pompey the Great killed in Egypt

44

Ides of March (15 March): Caesar assassinated

43

Second Triumvirate: consisted of Octavian (aka Augustus Caesar), Mark Antony, and Lepidus

31

Battle of Actium; deaths of Mark Antony and Cleopatra

27

Octavian becomes Augustus

9

Dedication of the ara pacis Augustae

2

Augustus becomes pater patriae; the two Julia’s banished

The Empire

C.E. 14

Augustus dies and is deified; Tiberius (Augustus’ stepson) becomes emperor