Historia A Timeline

Date
BC

Etruria

Pompeii

Rome

Art/Literature

31001166

The World
Pharaohs rule Egypt

c. 2100

Indo-European
migrations

c. 1500

Minoan Civilization

c. 1450

Development of
Hinduism

c. 1200

Exodus of Jews
from Egypt

Trojan War

900-750

Villanovan
cultures
Etruscan cities
grow

C. 800 Hut Um, post holes

on Palatine

753

860 Homer-Iliad &

Odyssey

814 Carthage
founded

Rome founded!

Royal Period to 509
st

700-600

1 Etruscan
King of Rome
Tarquinius
Priscus

Greek merchants settle in

Pompeii

7 Kings-Etruscan, Roman,
Sabine

600-500

509 Last king

of Rome
Etruscan
Tarquinius
Superus
Decline of
Etruscan.
influence

535 Etruscan control of

Corsica

530 Pompeii

509 End Royal period;

beginning of Republic;
Etruscan wars

Cincinnatus named
dictator, returned to farm
after Etruscans defeated

Earliest Latin inscription,

tomb painting, Temples
of Diana, Fortuna Jupiter
Capitolinus & walls of
Servius Tullius

563 Buddha born

in India

551 Confucius
born in China

474 Samnites capture

Pompeii

Invasions - Aequi,
Sabines, Volsci, Patrician
domination

C. 500 lapis Niger

451-450 12 tables
Temples-Ceres,
Saturn,

Castor & Apollo

Persian invasions
of Greece

Golden Age of
Greece (Pericles)

500-400

(Pericles, son of
Xanthippus, Athenian
inscription from a famous
portrait bust)

The Capitoline Wolf, early

th
5 century BC
400-300

390 Rome sacked by

Gauls

338 Campania-a roman
state

334-264 Colonization of
Italy
nd

327-304 2 Samnite War

378 Walls rebuilt

around Rome.

312 Via Appia. Aqua
Appia

Alexander - Ruler of
Greece

Date

Etruria

300-200

Pompeii

Roman armies defeat

Samnite

200-100

100-60

Etruscans
become
Roman
Citizens

90-80 Pompeii rebels

against Rome

80 Pompeii becomes
Roman Colony

Rome

Art/Literature

The World

221 Many temples

Pottery industry
Circus flaminius
Cato
Cir. Temple-Forum
Boarium
Greek art to Rome
Playwrights:Terence &
Plantus

Pyrrhus
invasion Italy 2
wars v.
Carthage

218 Hannibal
crosses Alps
rd

150 End 3
Punic war Rome
expands beyond
Italy

Direct taxation
on Roman
citizens
abolished

Gracchi Bros.

91-86 War w/
allies

83-82 Civil War
Marius v. Sulla

73-71 Revolt of
Spartacus

63 Catalinian
conspiracy

62 Catullus
comes to Rome
st

60 1
Triumvirate

58-49 Caesar
conquers Gaul

49 Caesardictator

44 Caesar killed
nd

2 triumvirate

27 Augustus emperor end of
Republic

4 Birth of Jesus

Born:
Historian

Livy
Poet

Ovid

31 Death Marc Antony
Aeneid written

Born:
Philosopher:

94-95 Lucretius
Historian:

86-34 Sallust
Poets:

84-85 Catullus,

65-68 Horace & 70
Virgil

The circular temple in the

nd
Forum Boarium late 2
century BC
59-28

27-4

AD

Etruria

Pompeii

14
c. 29
37
41
42
43
54
59-60
61-79

Rome

Art/Literature

The World

Augustus dies
Tiberius Emperor
Jesus dies
Caligula-Emperor
Claudius-Emperor
St, Peter to Rome
Invasion S. Britain
Nero-Emperor

59 Pompeii riot

62 Earthquake
79 Vesuvius erupts; Pliny
the Elder dies in eruption

64 Great
Fire/Christian
persecution

69 Yr. of 4
emperors
(tetrarchy).

70 Vespasian
Emperor

79 Titus
Emperor

79 Colosseum
dedicated; Seneca
Orator-Martial PoetPliny,

Pliny the Elder &
Younger, letters;
Tacitus,-historian

Date

Etruria

Pompeii

Rome

81

Domitian Emperor

96

Nerva Emperor

98

Art/Literature

Trojan Emperor

100-300

117 Hadrian
Emperor
Roman
citizenship to all
free inhabitants
in provinces

161 Marcus
Aurelius-emp.
philosopher
Diocletian
Emperor

312 Constantine
defeats
Maxentius at
the Battle of
Milivian Bridge
(In hoc signo,
vinces)

303 Persecution
of Christians

410 Visigoths
sack Rome

455 Rome
pillaged by
vandals

476 Last Roman
emperor falls to
the Ostrogoths
(the Roman
empire
persisted in
Byzantium until
1453 AD!)
540 Byzantine
reconquest of
Italy

300-500

500-600

118 Pantheon rebuilt

126 Hadrians VillaTivoli

216 Baths Caracalla

271 Aurelian walls

Juvenal-poet

Suetonius-history

Apuleius-novelist

Arch of Constantine
churches of Rome

Church of St. Peter
established by
Constantine, first public
church

Writers: Ambrose,
Jerome, Augustine
St. Sophia in
Constantinople

Rome a free city

after 300 years of
turmoil

1200

Rise of cities,
universities in
Europe
Turks capture
Constantinople

1453
1454

Gutenberg invents
moveable type in
Germany

1492

17701797

570 birth of
Mohammed
Charlemagne and
HRE
Magna Charta

1066
1143

1748

313 Constantine
supports
Christianity in
empire

330 Constantine
moves Roman
capitol to
Constantinople in
Byzantium, Asia
Minor (modern
day Turkey)

Depiction of a typical Triumphal

Arch

800

C. 1500
1594

The World

Pope Alexander
VI crowned
Renaissance

Columbus to
America, October 29

Fontana rediscovers
Pompeii
Charles III king of Naples
conducts treasure hunt at
Pompeii
1797 Napoleon
invades Italy

Born--Poets- English

1770 Wordsworth

1788 Byron

1792 Shelley

America born

Date

Etruria

18061807

Pompeii / Environs

Rome

Joseph Bonafante, King of

Naples

1807 Georg Wilhelm

Friedrich Hegel (17701831) writes
Phenomenology of Mind

18091830

Born--Writer- Russian

1809 Gogel

1818 Turgenev

1821 Dostoyevsky

1828 Tolstoy
Poets- American

1830 Emily Dickinson
Writer- English

1811Thackeray

1815 Trollope

1816-20 Brontes

1835 Austen

1830 Dickens
Writer- American

1811 Stowe

1819 Melville

1840 Edgar Allan Poe
publishes suspenseful
short stories in United
States

Karl Marx-Economic
Theory

Sarcophagus
18311848

1861

Fiorelli-excavates Pompeii

Art/Literature

Victor Emmanual
II King of Italy

1863
18651888

Writer- English

1865 Kipling

1888 Eliot

19001914

Writer- American
1911 Tennessee Williams

1917
1918
19201925
1931

1939

1963
1990
1995

2002 +

1831 Invention of
mechanical McCormick
Reaper 1848
Discovery of Gold in
America West
Civil War USA
(1861-1865)
Emancipation of
Slaves USA

1865 End of Civil
War USA

1867 Canada
dominion
1st World War

Great depression

Canada becomes a
commonwealth

2nd WW

U OF MilanAtomic Reactor
Developed

Samuel Morses
telegraph (coded
signal)
End 2nd WW

Vesuvius erupts again

1945
1946
1952
1961

End HRE

1800 Estimated
world population
nears 1 billion: that
of Europe is 180
million

1814 NapoleonWaterloo

Russian Revolution
End of 1st WW
Women in US vote

1925 Scopes
Monkey Trial

1944

The World

Italy a Republic
Korean War
Americans in spaceAlan Shepard
begin Viet Nam War
Berlin Wall falls
Ferrari begins
production of
550

And Latin
continues.