The History of Rome:
Timeline of The Empire

"But who is to guard the guards themselves?" - Juvenal

Date Event
9 AD Three legions annihilated at the battle of Te Wald
14-37 Reign of Tiberius
37-41 Reign of Caligula
41 The mad emperor Caligula is stabbed to death
41-54 Reign of Claudius
43 Claudius orders the invasion of Britain
54-68 Reign of Nero
64 Great fire in Rome. Persecution of Christians
65 Death of Seneca
66 Beginning of Jewish revolt
69 "The Year of The Four Emperors."
69-79 Reign of Vespasian
70 The city of Jerusalem is virtually wiped out by Titus
79-81 Reign of Titus
79 Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius; the twin cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum are buried in ash
80 Colosseum opens
81-96 Reign of Domitian
85 Agricola's campaigns ends in Britain. Domitian's palace built on Palatine
98-117 Reign of Trajan
101-106 Trajan conquers Dacia. Arabia becomes a province.
117 Death of Tacitus
112-113 Trajan's Forum and Column dedicated
114-117 Trajan campaigns in Parthia, Armenia and Mesopotamia, annexing them. Arch of Trajan at Beneventum
115-117 Jewish revolt
132-135 Bar Cochba's revolt; final Diaspora of the Jews. Handrian's Villa built at Tivoli. Hadrian's Wall built in Britain.
142 Wall of Antoninus Pius built
162-166 Parthian wars of Verus
165-167 Rome suffers from severe plague
168-175 Marcus campaigns in German wars
193 Column of Marcus Aurelius completed
208-211 Severus campaigns in Britain. Arch of Septimius Severus erected.
212 Constitutio Antoniniana provides citizenship to all in Empire
216 Baths of Caracalla completed
284-305 Diocletian's Reign
301 Diocletian's price edict
306-337 Constantine's Reign
312 The Emperor Constantine converts to Christianity. The Edict of Milan grants legal rights to Christians
325 The Council of Nicea
330 Constantine declares Constantinople capital of a Christian Empire.
361-363 Julian the Apostate
~372 The Huns conquer the Ostrogoths
379-395 Reign of Theodosius
378 Battle of Adrianople, eastern emperor Valens is killed.
395 Death of Theodosius I, final division into an Eastern and a Western Empire
396-398 The Visogoths ravage Greece.
402 Ravenna becomes the capital of the western empire
410 Rome is sacked by the Visigoths
354-430 St. Augustine of Hippo
413 The Theodosian walls are built in Constantinople
418 Visigoths settle in Aquitaine with capital at Toulouse
421-422 War with Sasanians
~425 Completion of St. Augustine's City of God
429 Vandals cross from Spain to Africa
436 Last Roman troops leave Britain.
441 The Huns defeat the Romans at Naissus
~450 Beginning of Anglo-Saxon settlements in Britain
451 Aetius defeats Attila at the Catalaunian Plain
453 Council of Chalcedon: Constantinople wins ecclesiastical supremecy over Alexandria.
454 Murder of Roman general Aėtius
455 Vandals sack Rome.
476 Romulus Augustulus - last emperor of the west is forced from his throne by the Germanic chieftain Odoacer, who is proclaimed king of Italy
532-537 Justinian builds the Church of Hagia Sophia
533-534 Reconquest of North Africa from the Vandals
535-555 Reconquest of Italy from the Goths
541-543 Great Plague
548 Death of the Empress Theodora
568 Lombards invade Italy
680 Council of Constantinople. Monophysitism is declared unorthodox
681 The First Bulgarian Empire is formed.
690s Muslims conquer Byzantine North Africa
717-718 Muslims lay siege to Constantinople
1453 Fall of Byzantine Empire when Turks capture Constantinople.
 

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