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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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