ROMAN CIVILIZATION: TIMELINE THROUGH EXAM 1
1200BC Fall of Troy
753BC Founding of Rome
753–716BC Reign of Romulus
673–642BC Reign of Tullus Hostilius
642–617BC Reign of Ancus Marcius
509BC expulsion of the Tarquins, Roman Republic founded
496BC Rome attains leadership of Latin League with victory at Lake Regillus
492BC First Plebeian Secession
458BC dictatorship of Cincinnatus
451BC Twelve Tables
406BC Pay for soldiers approved
396BC Seige of Veii concluded with evocatio
390BC Gauls sack Rome
343BC First Samnite War
321BC Second Samnite War: Roman army captured at Caudine forks by Gavius Pontius and
forced to pass under the yoke
312BC contract for a road south let by censor Appius Claudius Caecus
298BC Third Samnite War, P. Decius Mus offers himself in devotio
287BC Second Plebeian Secession
282BC Tarentum attacks and seizes Roman ships and crews
280BC Pyrrhus defeats a Roman army at Heraclea
279BC Pyrrhus “wins” at a cost of 3500 dead to the Roman toll of 7000
275BC Pyrrhus loses at Beneventum and thereafter makes peace with Rome
267BC Concilium Plebis gains right to pass plebiscitum
264–241BC First Punic War
238–149BC life of M. Porcius Cato (the Censor)
236BC Hamlicar moves into Spain
227BC Treaty establishes the Ebro River as limit of Carthaginian territory
219BC Roman ally Saguntum besieged and brutally sacked—though south of Ebro
218–201BC Second Punic War
216BC Battle of Cannae
214–205BC First Macedonian War
207BC Hannibal’s brother, Hasdrubal, marches from Spain
204BC Scipio invades North Africa, where he is joined by Masinissa
202BC Battle of Zama
200–197B C Second Macedonian War
197BC Romans defeat Philip at Cynocephalae
192–189BC War with Antiochus the Great, Seleucid king of Syria
186BC Scandal of the Bacchanalia
185–129BC life of P. Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus
184BC Cato the Censor expels senator for embracing his wife in front of his daughter
171–168BC Third Macedonian War
168BC Battle of Pydna
167BC Roman citizens (those with civitas Romana) are hereafter exempt from taxes
149–146BC Third Punic War
147BC Scipio Aemilianus elected consul below minimum age and without having been praetor
146BC Achaean War
146BC Scipio Aemilianus sacks Carthage: weeps and quotes Homer as city burns
