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Time traveller's guide to the Roman Empire
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Timeline

133-49 BC
The decline and fall of the Roman Republic

49 BC
Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon

15 March 44 BC
Julius Caesar assassinated

2 September 31 BC
Antony and Cleopatra defeated

13 January 27 BC
Augustus emperor

19 BC
Virgil's Aeneid appears

4 BC
Herod the Great dies, Jesus born?

September AD 9
The lost legions of Varus

19 August AD 14
Augustus dies, Tiberius emperor

18 October AD 31
Death of Sejanus, terror in Rome

16 March AD 37
Tiberius dies, Caligula emperor

AD 37-41
Rule of Caligula

24 January AD 41
Claudius proclaimed emperor

AD 43
Invasion of Britain

12 October AD 54
Claudius poisoned, Nero emperor

AD 59
Nero murders his mother

AD 64
The great fire of Rome

9 June AD 68
Nero commits suicide

AD 68-69
The year of four emperors

8 September AD 70
Destruction of Jerusalem

24 August AD 79
Eruption of Vesuvius

AD 80
Titus opens the Colosseum

AD 81
Domitian: confiscations and terror

18 September AD 96
Domitian murdered, Nerva emperor

28 January AD 98
Nerva dies, Trajan emperor

AD 113
Trajan's column dedicated in Rome

9 August AD 117
Trajan dies

AD 122
Hadrian's Wall started

AD 126
Pantheon completed at Rome

10 July AD 138
Hadrian dies, Antoninus Pius emperor

AD 142
Invasion of Scotland

AD 148
900th anniversary of Rome

7 March AD 161
Antoninus dead, 'Harmony of the Emperors'

AD 167
Plague at Rome

17 March AD 180
Marcus Aurelius dead, Commodus emperor

31 December AD 192
Commodus murdered

1 June AD 193
Septimius Severus emperor

4 February AD 211
Severus dead, Caracalla emperor

AD 215
Massacre at Alexandria

8 April AD 217
Caracalla killed

16 May AD 218
Elagabalus emperor

11 March AD 222
Elagabalus killed, Alexander Severus emperor

March AD 235
Alexander killed, Maximinus emperor

AD 235
The empire in chaos

21-23 April AD 248
Rome's millennium

AD 251
Decius killed by the Goths

AD 253
Valerian emperor

AD 260
Valerian captured

AD 260-268
The period of the 20 pretenders

AD 270-275
The empire reunited

AD 284
Diocletian emperor

1 May AD 305
Diocletian abdicates

AD 305-474
The decline and fall of the western empire

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