Ancient History
Ancient Greece - Three Main Periods
Archaic: 776-480/78 BCE
Classical: 480/78-323 BCE
Hellenistic: 323-146 BCE
Archaic Greece
776 BC - First Olympics
480 BC - End of the Persian Wars
Classic Greece
480 BCE - End of the Persian Wars
323 BCE - Death of Alexander
Hellenistic Greece
323 BCE - Death of Alexander
146 BCE - Battle of Corinth (end of Achaean War, beginning of Roman domination)
Foundation of Rome
21st April 753 BC (Varro)
Founder of Rome
Aeneas - Alba Longa - Romulus and Remus - Proca - Numitor and Amulius - Rhea Silva - She-Wolf - Faustulus and Acca Larentia - Rome - Murder of Remus - Rape of the Sabines
Kingdom of Rome
753 BC - 509 BC
Seven Kings - Romulus > Numa >> Tarquin
Rome's Last King and Overthrow of the Kingdom
Tarquin and Tullia - Overthrow of Servius - Overthrown of the Kingdom (Sextus - Collinatus - Rape of Lucrece - Brutus)
Roman Republic
509 BC - 27 BC
Expansion of Rome
509 BC - 264 BC: Italian peninsula
264 BC - 146 BC: Carthage (1: Sicily, 2: Spain, 3: N. Africa), W. Mediterranean Sea
146 BC - 44 BC: Asia Minor/Syria (Pompey), Gaul (Caesar)
44 BC - 14 AD: Egypt, Central Europe, Judaea (Augustus)
Pyrrhic Victory
Pyrrhus of Epirus, Battle of Asculum (279 BC)
Punic Wars
Three wars against Carthage, 264 BC - 146 BC
(Second - Hannibal crossing Alps, Battle of Cannae
Scipio Africanus)
Julius Caesar
49 BC - crosses Rubicon, 10th January (alea iacta est)
49 BC - 45 BC - Caesar's Civil War (vs Pompey)
44 BC - dictator, assasinated 15th March
Battle of Philipi
42 BC, Octavian and Anthony defeat Caesar's assassins ("liberatores") - end of Liberators' Civil War
Battle of Actium
31 BC, naval battle where Octavian defeats Anthony and Cleopatra
End of the Roman Republic
27 BC - Senate names Octavian Augustus
Dynasties of Roman Epire
00s:
Julio-Claudians (27 BC - 68 AD)
Flavians (69 AD - 96 AD)
100s:
Nerva, Antonines (96 AD - 192 AD)
200s:
Severans (193 AD - 235 AD)
Crisis of the Third Century
Diocletian (284 AD - 306 AD)
300s:
Constantinians (306 AD - 363 AD)
Valentinianic (364 AD - 392 AD)
400s:
Theodosian (379 AD - 457 AD)
Last Western Emperors (455 AD - 476 AD)
-> Romulus 'Augustulus' deposed by Odoacer
Roman Emperors - 00s
Augustus - Tiberius - Gaius - Claudius - Nero
Vespasian - Titus - Domitian
Roman Emperors - 100s
Nerva - Trajan - Hadrian
Antoninus Pius - Marcus Aurelius (Lucius Verus)
Commodus
(All by adoption, except Commodus - son of MA)
Roman Emperors - 200s
Septimus Severus (Julia Domna)
Caracalla - Geta
Elagabalus - Severus Alexander
Crisis of the Third Century -> . . . Diocletian
Roman Emperors - 300s
Constantine - Sons of Constantine
Julian
Valentinian I & Valens (+ Sons of Valentinian)
Theodosius I
Fall of the Roman Empire
476 AD - Odoacer deposes Romulus 'Augustulus'
Persian Wars
. . .
Fifth Century Athens
. . .
Peloponnesian Wars
. . .
Life of Alexander
. . .
Year of the 4 Emperors
69
Assassination of Domitian
96
Year of the 5 Emperors
193
Assassination of Alexander Severus
235
Accession of Diocletian
285