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1200BC
Fall of Troy
TERM 2
753BC
DEFINITION 2
Founding of Rome
TERM 3
753-716BC
DEFINITION 3
Reign of Romulus
TERM 4
673-642BC
DEFINITION 4
Reign of Tullus Hostilius
TERM 5
642-617BC
DEFINITION 5
Reign of Ancus Marcius
509BC
expulsion of the Tarquins, Roman Republic founded
TERM 7
496BC
DEFINITION 7
Rome attains leadership of Latin League with victory at Lake
Regillus
TERM 8
492BC
DEFINITION 8
First Plebeian Secession
TERM 9
458BC
DEFINITION 9
dictatorship of Cincinnatus
TERM 10
451BC
DEFINITION 10
Twelve Tables
312BC
contract for a road south let by censor Appius Claudius
Caecus
TERM 17
298BC
DEFINITION 17
Third Samnite War, P. Decius Mus offers himself in devotio
TERM 18
287BC
DEFINITION 18
Second Plebeian Secession
TERM 19
282BC
DEFINITION 19
Tarentum attacks and seizes Roman ships and crews
TERM 20
280BC
DEFINITION 20
Pyrrhus defeats a Roman army at Heraclea
279BC
Pyrrhus wins at a cost of 3500 dead to the Roman toll of
TERM 22
275BC
DEFINITION 22
Pyrrhus loses at Beneventum and thereafter makes peace
with Rome
TERM 23
267BC
DEFINITION 23
Concilium Plebis gains right to pass plebiscitum
TERM 24
264241BC
DEFINITION 24
First Punic War
TERM 25
238-149BC
DEFINITION 25
life of M. Porcius Cato (the Censor)
214-205BC
First Macedonian War
TERM 32
207BC
DEFINITION 32
Hannibals brother, Hasdrubal, marches from Spain
TERM 33
204BC
DEFINITION 33
Scipio invades North Africa, where he is joined by Masinissa
TERM 34
202BC
DEFINITION 34
Battle of Zama
TERM 35
200-197B C
DEFINITION 35
Second Macedonian War
197BC
Romans defeat Philip at Cynocephalae
TERM 37
192-189BC
DEFINITION 37
War with Antiochus the Great, Seleucid king of Syria
TERM 38
186BC
DEFINITION 38
Scandal of the Bacchanalia
TERM 39
185-129BC
DEFINITION 39
life of P. Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus
TERM 40
184BC
DEFINITION 40
Cato the Censor expels senator for embracing his wife in
front of his daughter
146BC
Achaean War
TERM 47
146BC
DEFINITION 47
Scipio Aemilianus sacks Carthage: weeps and quotes Homer
as city burns
TERM 48
133BC
DEFINITION 48
Tribunate of Tiberius Gracchus
TERM 49
129BC
DEFINITION 49
Attalus leaves Pergamum to Rome, which becomes the
province of Asia
TERM 50
123-122BC
DEFINITION 50
Tribunate of Gaius Gracchus
121BC
death of Gaius Gracchus
TERM 52
112BC
DEFINITION 52
Jugurtha attacks Adherbals kingdom and besieges city of
Cirta (a commercial city where many Romans lived)
TERM 53
109BC
DEFINITION 53
Metellus sent to Numidia along with his legate, Gaius Marius
TERM 54
107BC
DEFINITION 54
Marius first consulship
TERM 55
106-43BC
DEFINITION 55
life of M. Tullius Cicero
99BC
Bill authorizing Metellus return passes over Marius opposition
TERM 62
91-87BC
DEFINITION 62
Social War
TERM 63
90BC
DEFINITION 63
franchise offered to all Italians
TERM 64
89BC
DEFINITION 64
Latin status offered to Transpadane towns
TERM 65
88BC
DEFINITION 65
Sullas First March on Rome
83BC
Sullas Second March on Rome
TERM 67
82-79BC
DEFINITION 67
Sullan program: proscriptions
TERM 68
78BC
DEFINITION 68
Sulla dies in retirement
TERM 69
73-71BC
DEFINITION 69
Spartacus slave revolt
TERM 70
67BC
DEFINITION 70
Gabinian Law
59BC-AD
Life of Titus Livius
TERM 77
58BC
DEFINITION 77
Clodius elected tribune
TERM 78
56BC
DEFINITION 78
Conference at Luca
TERM 79
58-51BC
DEFINITION 79
Caesar in Gaul
TERM 80
52BC
DEFINITION 80
Revolt of Vercingetorix
54BC
Julia, wife of Pompey, dies in childbirth
TERM 82
52BC
DEFINITION 82
Clodius killed
TERM 83
52BC
DEFINITION 83
Pompey remarries Cornelia Metella
TERM 84
53BC
DEFINITION 84
Crassus killed by Parthians at Carrhae
TERM 85
49BC
DEFINITION 85
Caesar crosses the Rubicon
42BC
Battle of Philippi
TERM 92
35BC
DEFINITION 92
Sextus Pompey executed
TERM 93
32BC
DEFINITION 93
Antony divorces Octavia
TERM 94
32BC
DEFINITION 94
Actium
TERM 95
31BC-AD
DEFINITION 95
reign of Augustus
29BC
Temple of Janus closed
TERM 97
27BC
DEFINITION 97
First Settlement
TERM 98
c.26-19BC
DEFINITION 98
The Aeneid is written
TERM 99
23BC
DEFINITION 99
Second Settlement
TERM 100
AD 9
DEFINITION 100
3 legions massacred in Teutoburg Forest