The Roman Empire was one of the greatest civilizations in history. It began in Rome in 753 BC. Rome controlled over two million square miles stretching from the Rhine River to Egypt and from Britain to Asia Minor. This timeline highlights the major eve
Learn about the history of Rome. See when the Roman Empire started, where it was located, what it was like at its height, and how long the Empire...
The family’s ties to Rome went back even farther as Herodes Atticus’ great, great, great grandfather, Eucles, became close with Julius Caesar and Augustus, both of whom gave to Athens. Subsequently too, the family was granted Roman citizenship by the Emperor Claudius, and that is why the...
Julius Caesar was killed 27 BC Caesar Augustus became the first Roman Emperor, which marked the start of the Roman Empire; the Pax Romana began 43 AD Britain was invaded again, and this time the Romans stayed. 64 AD A fire in Rome lasted for six days, which affected most of the city ...
Tiberius - Roman Empire, Successor, Augustus: Although the opening years of Tiberius’s reign seem almost a model of wise and temperate rule, they were not without displays of force and violence, of a kind calculated to secure his power. The one remainin
Julius Caesar Augustus Marcus Tullius Cicero Pompey the Great Diocletian Related Topics: Roman law Neoclassical art Senate aqueduct civitas Related Places: Italy Roman Empire ancient Egypt Pompeii Petra See all related content Top Questions Who was the first king of ancient Rome? What were the...
All of this meant that during the many centuries that the Roman empire existed, there were a great many battles fought. It is also worth remembering that the Romans were by no means always on the offensive, particularly in the early days of the Roman Republic and the first stages of growth...
There were some exceptions, like the dictatorships of Sulla and Julius Caesar. Who was the cruelest Roman emperor? The Roman empire had many cruel emperors. Most people would point directly to Caligula or Nero, despite the sources of their reign being heavily biased. It is difficult to ...
It did not help that they introduced months with odd numbers of days because of a prevailing superstition against even numbers. Eventually, the calendar was so far from a regular timeline that Julius Caesar implemented a new reform, making the duration of a solar year the basis for the calenda...
Principate Timeline Commodus.© Trustees of the British Museum, produced by Natalia Bauer for the Portable Antiquities Scheme The period of the Roman Empire, prior to the A.D. 476 Fall of Rome in the West, is often divided into an earlier period called the Principate and a later period ca...