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The city of
Rome , Italy, has had an
extensive history since antiquity.
Early history
Tradition states that
Romulus and Remus were raised by a wolf before
founding Rome in 753 BC.
1000 BC –
Latins begin to settle in Italy
Republic
19th-century painting of the Gallic leader
Brennus looting Rome after the
Battle of the Allia in 390 BC
Imperial city
St Peter , the first
Pope , was crucified in Rome in 67 AD
The
Colosseum opened in 80 AD
49 BC - Caesar crosses the
Rubicon in order to take Rome.
44 BC - Caesar elects himself
dictator , and in March is killed by
Brutus and
Cassius
27 BC - Augustus is made Rome's first emperor.
13 BC - The Senate commissions the
Ara Pacis to honor Augustus' return to Rome.
c. 60 AD -
Paul the Apostle arrives in Rome.
64 AD - The
Great Fire of Rome , rumored to be blamed by
Nero on the Christians.
c. 65 AD - Blamed for causing the Great Fire,
Christians in the city are persecuted.
72 AD - Work on the
Flavian Amphitheatre (Colosseum) begins.
80 AD - While
Titus is inspecting the damage of the eruption of Vesuvius, a fire breaks out in the city for three days, destroying Capitoline temples and the
Pantheon .
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125 AD - Emperor
Hadrian has the Pantheon reconstructed, assuming its current appearance.
212 AD - All the inhabitants of the empire are granted
citizenship of Rome.
216 AD - Work on the
Baths of Caracalla is completed.
217 AD - Fire, possibly caused by a lightning strike, damages the Flavian Amphitheatre.
[3]
225 AD - Mathematicians allowed to teach publicly at Rome.[
citation needed ]
247 AD - The first millennium of Rome is celebrated.
270 AD - Construction of the
Aurelian Wall begins.
274 AD - The
Temple of the Sun built at Rome.
284 AD -
Diocletian partitions administration of the Roman Empire in half, thereby establishing the
Eastern Roman Empire in
Byzantium .
Late antiquity and early medieval period
19th-century painting of the
Visigothic
Sack of Rome in 410 AD
312 -
Constantine the Great defeats
Maxentius at
Battle of the Milvian Bridge to become the ruler of the western
Roman Empire
c.320 -
Old St. Peter's Basilica is constructed.
325- Constantine convenes the
First Council of Nicaea .
380 - The Christian emperor
Theodosius makes Christianity the official religion of Rome, persecuting pagans and destroying temples.
402 -
Ravenna becomes the capital of the Western Roman Empire, whilst
Constantinople that of the east.
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410 -
Rome is sacked by
Alaric , King of the
Visigoths
422 - The
Church of Santa Sabina is founded.
455 -
Rome is sacked by
Genseric , King of the
Vandals
476 -
Romulus Augustulus is deposed , traditionally considered the end of the Western Roman Empire and the beginning of the Middle Ages in Europe.
Byzantium continues to be the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.
496 - The first pope to achieve the
Pontifex Maximus is
Anastasius II .
546 -
Rome is sacked by
Totila , King of the
Ostrogoths
c. 590 - 604 -
Pope Gregory the Great makes the Christian church exceedingly strong.
609 - The
Pantheon becomes a Christian church.
630 - The Church of Sant' Agnese is the first Roman church to be constructed in
Byzantine style .
725 - The King
Ine of Wessex is the first man to create a hostel for pilgrims to Rome.
778 -
Charlemagne conquers Italy and Rome.
800 - Charlemagne is crowned the emperor in St. Peter's Basilica.
801 -
An earthquake damages St. Paul's Outside the Walls on 29 April.
846 - During the
Arab raid against Rome the moors plundered the environs of the city, including
Old St. Peter's Basilica , but they were prevented from entering the city itself by the
Aurelian Wall
880 - 932 - A rare occasion, the city is governed by women, Theodora and later her daughter Marozia.
961 - King
Otto the Great of
Germany becomes in Rome the first
Holy Roman Emperor .
High Middle Ages
The Papal throne in the
Archbasilica of St. John Lateran dates from the 13th century
1084 - The city of Rome is
attacked by the
Normans
1108 - The church of San Clemente is in this year rebuilt.
1140 - The church of Santa Maria in Trastevere is restored.
1200 - The city becomes an independent commune
1232 - The cloisters in the
Basilica of St. John Lateran are finished.
1300 -
Pope Boniface VIII proclaims the First Holy Year.
1309 - The Papacy is moved to
Avignon under
Pope Clement V
1347 - The patriot and rebel
Cola di Rienzo tries to restore the Roman Republic.
1348 - As in most of Europe, the
Black Death strikes Rome.
Roman Renaissance
From 1508 to 1512,
Michelangelo painted the
Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Baroque period
The
Church of the Gesù was the first
Baroque structure, built in 1568
The current
St. Peter's Basilica was finished in 1626
19th century and Risorgimento
Illustration of the proclamation of the
1849 Roman Republic in the
Piazza del Popolo .
20th century and modern Rome
The
Altare della Patria was built in honour of King
Victor Emmanuel II in 1911
Fascists, led by
Benito Mussolini , at the
March on Rome in 1922
21st century
See also
Other cities in the
macroregion of
Central Italy :(
it )
Timeline of Ancona , Marche region
Timeline of Arezzo , Tuscany region
Timeline of Florence , Tuscany
Timeline of Livorno , Tuscany
Timeline of Lucca , Tuscany
Timeline of Perugia , Umbria region
Timeline of Pisa , Tuscany
Timeline of Pistoia , Tuscany
Timeline of Prato , Tuscany
Timeline of Siena , Tuscany
References
^ Steven Anzovin and Janet Podell, ed. (2000).
Famous First Facts . H.W. Wilson Co.
ISBN
0824209583 .
^ Brian Jones, The Emperor Domitian (London: Routledge, 1992), p. 80
^ Cassius Dio, lxxviii.25
^ Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis. Ravenna in Late Antiquity , Cambridge University Press, 2014, p. 46.
ISBN
9781107612907
Further reading
External links
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