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| 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. |