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One week after entering Rome, the Italian troops had taken the entire city save for the Apostolic Palace; the inhabitants of the city then voted to join Italy. [90] On 1 July 1871, Rome became the official capital of united Italy and from then until June 1929 the popes had no temporal power.
1929 - A separate country within Rome, Vatican City, is created by the Lateran Treaty. 1940 - EUR begins, and the nation enters World War II. 1943 - Bombing of Rome in World War II begins. 1944 - Rome is liberated by the Allied troops from the Germans. 1957 - Treaty of Rome; 1960 - Rome hosts the 1960 Summer Olympics, with great success.
Prehistoric habitation of the Italian Peninsula occurred by 48,000 years ago, with the area of Rome being settled by around 1600 BC. [2] Some evidence on the Capitoline Hill possibly dates as early as c. 1700 BC [ 3 ] and the nearby valley that later housed the Roman Forum had a developed necropolis by at least 1000 BC. [ 4 ]
The European country of Italy has been inhabited by humans since at least 850,000 years ago. ... Rome was founded as a ... when Phoceans of Italy founded ...
Rome was founded. According to Roman legend, Romulus was the founder and first king of Rome, beginning the Roman Kingdom. 720 BC: The first Greek colony of Magna Graecia in mainland Italy, Kyme, is founded. [1] 715 BC: Numa Pompilius became the second King of Rome. 706 BC: Spartan immigrants found the colony of Taranto in Magna Graecia ...
Sapienza University of Rome. It was founded in 1303 and is as such one of the world's oldest universities, [177] and with 122,000 students, it is the largest university in Europe. [178] Rome is a nationwide and major international centre for higher education, containing numerous academies, colleges and universities.
The city of Hangzhou was founded about 2,200 years ago during the Qin dynasty. Kashgar: ... Rome: Latium Italy: c. 753 BC The traditional founding date is 753 BC.
[1] [2] It is an expression used in antiquity and by classical historians to refer to a given year in Ancient Rome. In reference to the traditional year of the foundation of Rome, the year 1 BC would be written AUC 753, whereas AD 1 would be AUC 754. The foundation of the Roman Empire in 27 BC would be AUC 727. The current year AD 2025 would be ...