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The Roman army (Latin: exercitus Romanus) served ancient Rome and the Roman people, enduring through the Roman Kingdom (753–509 BC), the Roman Republic (509–27 BC), and the Roman Empire (27 BC–AD 1453), including the Western Roman Empire (collapsed AD 476/480) and the Eastern Roman Empire (collapsed AD 1453).
The Varronian chronology, constructed from fragmentary sources and demonstrably about four years off of absolute events c. 340 BC, [4] placed the founding of the city on 21 April 753 BC. This date, likely arrived at by mechanical calculation but accepted with a variance of one year by the Augustan-era fasti Capitolini , has become the ...
754 BC: Battle of Alba Longa. King of Alba Longa, Amulius, who had previously usurped power is defeated and killed along with his sons by his Brother Numitor, and great-nephew Romulus, who led a sizable warband. 753 BC: 21 April: Rome was founded. According to Roman legend, Romulus was the founder and first King of Rome, establishing the Roman ...
The traditional date for the founding of Rome is 21 April 753 BC, following M. Terentius Varro, [4] and the city and surrounding region of Latium has continued to be inhabited with little interruption since around that time. Excavations made in 2014 have revealed a wall built long before the city's official founding year.
The scope of this task force includes Roman and Byzantine military history, from the founding of Rome in 753 BC to the fall of Byzantine Empire and its remnants in 1453/60 AD. The task force covers anything related to the Roman military, including wars and campaigns, weapons and tactics, individual units, and the generals and soldiers that ...
[4] Because the Varronian chronology places the foundation of Rome on 21 April 753 BC, it is also the basis for the Varronian years ab urbe condita (AUC; lit. ' from the founding of the city '). [5] Other chronologies place Rome's foundation in different years BC, meaning that they would place the same event in different years AUC.
753 BC in various calendars; Gregorian calendar: 753 BC DCCLIII BC: Ab urbe condita: 1: Ancient Egypt era: XXIII dynasty, 128: Ancient Greek era: 6th Olympiad, year 4: Assyrian calendar: 3998 ...
The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...