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Start of the reign of the second King of Rome — Numa Pompilius. c. 715 BC—Conquest of Messenia by Sparta ends. 713 BC—Numa Pompilius, King of Rome, reforms the Roman calendar, introducing January and February and adding 5 days to the calendar. 713 BC—Olmecs establish Monte Albán, the sacred city, and continue building pyramids.
Rome is founded in 753 BC, and the Etruscan civilization expands in Italy. The 8th century BC is conventionally taken as the beginning of Classical Antiquity , with the first Olympiad set at 776 BC, and the epics of Homer dated to between 750 and 650 BC.
The 710s decade ran from January 1, ... Roderick becomes king of the Visigoths, ... April 9 – Pope Constantine I dies at Rome after a 7-year reign.
The king of Rome (Latin: rex Romae) was the ruler of the Roman Kingdom, a legendary period of Roman history that functioned as an elective monarchy. [1] According to legend, the first king of Rome was Romulus, who founded the city in 753 BC upon the Palatine Hill. Seven legendary kings are said to have ruled Rome until 509 BC, when the last ...
As the king was the sole owner of imperium in Rome at the time, he possessed ultimate executive power and unchecked military authority as the commander-in-chief of all of the Roman legions. Also, the laws that kept citizens safe from magistrates' misuse of imperium did not exist during the monarchical period.
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According to Plutarch, Numa was the youngest of Pomponius's [3] four sons, born on the day of Rome's founding (traditionally, 21 April 753 BC). He lived a severe life of discipline and banished all luxury from his home. Titus Tatius, king of the Sabines and a colleague of Romulus, gave in marriage his only daughter, Tatia, to Numa. After 13 ...
Romulus (/ ˈ r ɒ m j ʊ l ə s /, Classical Latin: [ˈroːmʊɫʊs]) was the legendary founder and first king of Rome.Various traditions attribute the establishment of many of Rome's oldest legal, political, religious, and social institutions to Romulus and his contemporaries.