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This is a timeline of Roman history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the Roman Kingdom and Republic and the Roman and Byzantine Empires. To read about the background of these events, see Ancient Rome and History of the Byzantine Empire .
Roman forces were unable to exterminate, expel or subjugate them (as was their normal practice). In 395, after winning two destructive civil wars, Theodosius I died. He left a collapsing field army, and the Empire divided between the warring ministers of his two incapable sons.
Rome timeline; Roman Kingdom and Republic 753 BC According to legend, Romulus founds Rome. 753–509 BC: Rule of the seven Kings of Rome. 509 BC: Creation of the Republic. 390 BC The Gauls invade Rome. Rome sacked. 264–146 BC Punic Wars. 146–44 BC Social and Civil Wars. Emergence of Marius, Sulla, Pompey and Caesar. 44 BC
91–87 BC: Social War, between Rome and many of its fellow Italian allies – Roman victory. [5] 89 BC – Battle of Fucine Lake – Roman forces under Lucius Porcius Cato are defeated by the Italian rebels. 89 BC – Battle of Asculum – Roman army of C. Pompeius Strabo decisively defeats the rebels.
The Two Sieges of Constantinople by the Arabs – Their Invasion of France, and Defeat by Charles Martel – Civil Wars of the Ommiades and Abbassides – Learning of the Arabs – Luxury of the Caliphs – Naval Enterprises on Crete, Sicily, and Rome – Decay and Division of the Empire of the Caliphs – Defeats and Victories of the Greek ...
Italy under Eastern Roman control: 1507: AD 754: Foundation of the Papal States: 1553: AD 800: Creation of the Holy Roman Empire: 1824: AD 1071: Defeat of the Eastern Romans at the Battle of Manzikert: 1957: AD 1204: Sack of Constantinople by the Crusaders 2000: AD 1247: 2,000th Anniversary of the City of Rome 2206: AD 1453: Fall of the Eastern ...
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536 - Rome is recovered for the Roman Empire by Belisarius. 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.