The city of Rome, Italy, has had an extensive history since antiquity.

Early history

Tradition states that Romulus and Remus were raised by a wolf before founding Rome in 753 BC.
  • 1000 BC – Latins begin to settle in Italy

Republic

19th-century painting of the Gallic leader Brennus looting Rome after the Battle of the Allia in 390 BC

Imperial city

St Peter, the first Pope, was crucified in Rome in 67 AD
The Colosseum opened in 80 AD
  • 49 BC - Caesar crosses the Rubicon in order to take Rome.
  • 44 BC - Caesar elects himself dictator, and in March is killed by Brutus and Cassius
  • 27 BC - Augustus is made Rome's first emperor.
  • 13 BC - The Senate commissions the Ara Pacis to honor Augustus' return to Rome.
  • c. 60 AD - Paul the Apostle arrives in Rome.
  • 64 AD - The Great Fire of Rome, rumored to be blamed by Nero on the Christians.
  • c. 65 AD - Blamed for causing the Great Fire, Christians in the city are persecuted.
  • 72 AD - Work on the Flavian Amphitheatre (Colosseum) begins.
  • 80 AD - While Titus is inspecting the damage of the eruption of Vesuvius, a fire breaks out in the city for three days, destroying Capitoline temples and the Pantheon.[2]
  • 125 AD - Emperor Hadrian has the Pantheon reconstructed, assuming its current appearance.
  • 212 AD - All the inhabitants of the empire are granted citizenship of Rome.
  • 216 AD - Work on the Baths of Caracalla is completed.
  • 217 AD - Fire, possibly caused by a lightning strike, damages the Flavian Amphitheatre.[3]
  • 225 AD - Mathematicians allowed to teach publicly at Rome.
  • 247 AD - The first millennium of Rome is celebrated.
  • 270 AD - Construction of the Aurelian Wall begins.
  • 274 AD - The Temple of the Sun built at Rome.
  • 284 AD - Diocletian partitions administration of the Roman Empire in half, thereby establishing the Eastern Roman Empire in Byzantium.

Late antiquity and early medieval period

19th-century painting of the Visigothic Sack of Rome in 410 AD

High Middle Ages

The Papal throne in the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran dates from the 13th century
  • 1084 - The city of Rome is attacked by the Normans
  • 1108 - The church of San Clemente is in this year rebuilt.
  • 1140 - The church of Santa Maria in Trastevere is restored.
  • 1200 - The city becomes an independent commune
  • 1232 - The cloisters in the Basilica of St. John Lateran are finished.
  • 1300 - Pope Boniface VIII proclaims the First Holy Year.
  • 1309 - The Papacy is moved to Avignon under Pope Clement V
  • 1347 - The patriot and rebel Cola di Rienzo tries to restore the Roman Republic.
  • 1348 - As in most of Europe, the Black Death strikes Rome.

Roman Renaissance

From 1508 to 1512, Michelangelo painted the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

Baroque period

The Church of the Gesù was the first Baroque structure, built in 1568
The current St. Peter's Basilica was finished in 1626

19th century and Risorgimento

Illustration of the proclamation of the 1849 Roman Republic in the Piazza del Popolo.

20th century and modern Rome

The Altare della Patria was built in honour of King Victor Emmanuel II in 1911
Fascists, led by Benito Mussolini, at the March on Rome in 1922

21st century

See also

Other cities in the macroregion of Central Italy:(it)

References

  1. ↑ Steven Anzovin and Janet Podell, ed. (2000). Famous First Facts. H.W. Wilson Co. ISBN 0824209583.
  2. ↑ Brian Jones, The Emperor Domitian (London: Routledge, 1992), p. 80
  3. ↑ Cassius Dio, lxxviii.25
  4. ↑ Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis. Ravenna in Late Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, 2014, p. 46. ISBN 9781107612907

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