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Sulla's march on Rome: The consul Sulla led an army of his partisans across the pomerium into Rome. Social War (91–89 BC): The war ended. 87 BC: First Mithridatic War: Roman forces landed at Epirus. 85 BC: First Mithridatic War: A peace was agreed between Rome and Pontus under which the latter returned to its pre-war borders. 83 BC
Rome Timeline; Renaissance and early modern Rome; c. 1420s–1519: Rome becomes a centre of the Renaissance. Founding of the new St. Peter's Basilica. Sistine Chapel. 1527 The Landsknechts sack Rome. 1555 Creation of the Ghetto. 1585–1590 Urban reforms under Pope Sixtus V. 1592–1606 Caravaggio working in Rome. 1600 Giordano Bruno is burned ...
The founding of Rome was a prehistoric event or process later greatly embellished by Roman historians and poets. Archaeological evidence indicates that Rome developed from the gradual union of several hilltop villages during the Final Bronze Age or early Iron Age .
History of Rome. Founding of Rome; Kingdom of Rome. Kings of Rome; Roman expansion in Italy from 500 BC to 218 BC through the Latin War (light red), Samnite Wars (pink/orange), Pyrrhic War (beige), and First and Second Punic War (yellow and green). Cisalpine Gaul (238-146 BC) and Alpine valleys (16-7 BC) were later added.
In Rome, his relations with the Senate were poor, but he was popular with the commoners, as with his soldiers, whose salary he raised. Starting in 197, the influence of his Praetorian prefect Gaius Fulvius Plautianus was a negative influence; the latter was executed in 205. One of Plautianus's successors was the jurist Papinian.
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.
753 BC: Traditional year of founding of Rome. 700 BC: Homer composes The Iliad, an epic poem that represents the first extended work of European literature. 509 BC: Roman Republic is created. 499 BC: Greco-Persian Wars begin. c. 480 BC: The Thracian Odrysian kingdom was founded as the most important Daco-Thracian state union. [186]
Timeline. Italy portal: ... Rome was largely in ruins, ... In 1957, Italy was a founding member of the European Economic Community, ...