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Roman Empire History and Culture

T J Osler

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Roman Empire about 150 ad

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  • 753 BC: Roma (Rome) is founded by Romulus 312 BC: the first aqueduct, the Aqua Appia, is built 308 BC: Roma conquers the Etruscan city of Tarquinia 295 BC: Roma defeats the Gauls/Celts in northern Italy 280 BC: Roma issues coins 275 BC: Roma conquers southern Italy (Greek colonies) 272 BC: a second aqueduct, the Anio Vetus, is built 264 BC: Roma and Carthage fight the first Punic war 264 BC: the Romans destroy the last vestiges of the Etruscan civilization (Volsinies) 218 BC: Hannibal invades Italy and the Gauls of northern Italy ally with him 202 BC: Scipio defeats Hannibal and Roma annexes Spain 196 BC: the Romans defeat the Macedonian king Philip V at Cynoscephalae175 BC: the Celts of Spain are subjugated 149 BC: Roma destroys Carthage 149 BC: Roma conquers Greece after winning the battle of Corinth (and destroying Corinth

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  • 144 BC: the first high-level aqueduct 138 BC: Slave revolt in Sicily (crucifixion of 4,500 slaves) 57 BC: Caesar conquers all of Gaul 51 BC: Caesar crushes revolt of Vercingetorix in Gaul 49 BC: Ceasar crosses the Rubicon, defeats Pompey and becomes sole dictator of Rome, calling himself "imperator" 47 BC: Ceasar invades Egypt and proclaims Cleopatra queen45 BC: Julius Caesar employs the Egyptian astronomer Sosigenes to work out a new 12-month calendar (Julian calendar) 44 BC: Ceasar is killed. 36 BC: Rome tries to invade Persia 31 BC: Octavianus (Augustus) becomes the first emperor after defeating Mark Anthony at the battle of Actium 30 BC: Cleopatra commits suicide and Egypt is annexed to Roma 64 AD: Nero sets fire to Roma and blames the Christians for it97 AD: Rome forbids human sacrifice throughout the Roman empire 97 AD: Chinese general Pan Chao sends an embassy to the Roman Empire 107: The Roman Empire sends an embassy to India 

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  • 117: Trajan dies on his way to the Persian Gulf and Hadrian becomes emperor 122: Hadrian's Wall is built along the northern frontier to protect from the Barbarians 132: Jews, led by Bar-Cochba, whom some identify as the Messiah, revolt against Roma 136: emperor Hadrian definitely crushes the Jewish resistance, forbids Jews from ever entering Jerusalem, and changes the name of the city to Aelia Capitolina 

  • 90 to 168AD Claudius Ptolemaeus or Ptolemy: Astronomer and geographer who lived in Alexandria and compiled a large compendium of astronomy, with the earth as the centre of the universe. His compendium was called the Almagest when translated into Arabic.

  • 167: the Roman empire is attacked for the first time by barbarians (the German Quadi and Marcomanni) 212: Caracalla grants Roman citizenship on all free people who live in the Roman Empire 

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  • 312: Constantine becomes emperor 313: Constantine ends the persecution of the Christians (edict of Milano) 313: Constantine recognizes the Christian church 324: Constantine I founds a new city, Constantinople (Byzantium) 330: Constantine I moves the capital of the Roman empire to Constantinople (Byzantium) 325: First Council of Nicea - Decide basic beliefs of Christianity

  • 337: after Constantine's death, his sons split the empire: Constantine II (Spain, Britain, Gaul), Constans I (Italy, Africa, Illyricum, Macedon, Achaea) and Constantius II (the East) 356: Roma has 28 libraries, 10 basilicas, 11 public baths, two amphitheaters, three theaters, two circuses, 19 aqueducts, 11 squares, 1,352 fountains, 46,602 insulae (city blocks) 359: Constantinople becomes the capital of the Roman empire 380: Theodosius I proclaims Christianity as the sole religion of the Roman Empire 393: Theodosius forbids the Olympic Games because pagans and shuts down the temple of Zeus at Olympia 395: Theodosius divides the Roman empire in the Western and Eastern Empires, with Milano and Constantinople as their capitals 

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  • 393-397 ADSynods of the Christian Church decided which books would form the Christian Bible. This is composed of an "Old Testament" (the Hebrew Bible) and a "New Testament" (books about Jesus and the early Christians). The whole is arranged in approximate chronological order, giving a history of the material world from its beginning (Genesis) to future end (Revelation)

  • 405 AD Jerome completed his translation (commenced in 382) of the Bible from Hebrew and Arabic into Latin: the language common to educated Christendom. It became known as the versio vulgata or Vulgate

  • 410: the Visigots sack Roma 410: Roma withdraws from Britannia 425: the eastern emperor Theodosius II installs Valentinian III as emperor of the west 452: the Huns invade Italy 455: the Vandals sack Roma 

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  • 493: the Ostrogoths led by Theodoric conquer Italy 500: Roma's population has declined to less than 100,000 people 526: Antioch in Syria is destroyed by an earthquake 527: Justinian becomes eastern Roman emperor and decides to reconquer Italy 527: Byzantium enforces anti-Jewish laws and the Jews all but disappear from the eastern Roman Empire 529: Roman emperor Justinian shuts down the Academia of Plato 533: Justinian's code of law ("Corpus Juri Civilis") is published 534: Justinian's general Belisarius destroys the Arian kingdom of the Vandals and reconquers southern Spain and northern Africa 537: Justinian builds the church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople 540: Justinian's general Belisarius takes Ravenna from the last Ostrogothic resistance and thus reconquers Italy to the empire 542: the plague decimates the Empire 546: Visigothic rebels led by Totila sack Roma 636: Arabs capture Syria and Palestine 639: the Arabs invade the southern provinces of the Empire 673: the Arabs besiege Constantinople 714: the Arabs besiege Constantinople

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  • 718: Leo III repels the Arabs from Constantinople 726: Emperor Leo III orders the destruction of all icons (iconoclasm)739: emperor Leo III issues the Ecloga that introduces Christian principles into law 800: Charlemagne, king of the Franks, is crowned emperor by Pope Leo III and founds the Holy Roman Empire811: the eastern Roman emperor recognized Charlemagne as emperor of Roma 812: a peace treaty between Charlemagne and the Eastern Roman Empire surrenders Venezia to the Eastern empire but grants Venezia the right to trade with the Holy Roman Empire 813: an Armenian general becomes eastern Roman emperor Leo V 840: Basil's fleet retakes Bari from the Muslims 843: Icons are restored 846: the city of Roma has 17,000 inhabitants 860: the Rus attack Constantinople 867: Basil I becomes the Byzantine emperor and founds the Macedonian dynasty 879: Basil I defeats the Arabs and reconquers Cappadocia 896: Symeon of Bulgaria defeats the Byzantine army for the first time 922: Symeon of Bulgaria defeats the Byzantine army for the fourth and last time 934: Magyars raid Constantinople 968: Nicephorus II defeats the Arabs and reconquers Syria 969: Nicephorus II defeats the Bulgars 976: Basil II becomes the Byzantine emperor 1018: Basil II annexes Bulgaria and the Byzantine empire reaches its zenith 1025: Basil II dies 

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  • 1057: end of the Macedonian dynasty 1064: the Seljuks invade Armenia 1071: the Byzantine army of Romanus IV Diogenes is defeated by the Seljuks at Manzikert in Armenia, and establish a sultanate in Anatolia 1071: Normans led by Robert Guiscard conquer southern Italy from the eastern Roman empire 1081: Alexius I Komnenos establishes the Komnenos dynasty 

  • 1099: the first Crusade captures Jerusalem

  • 1187: Saladin defeats the crusaders 1204: the Crusaders, led by the Doge of Venezia, sack Constantinople, expel the Greek emperor Alexius III and set up a Latin kingdom, led by Baldwin I of the Flanders, while Venezia acquires territories in the Mediterranean and Black Seas

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  • 1204: Theodore I Lascaris, son-in-law od Alexius III, flees from Constantinople to Nicaea (Bithynia), where he founds a the empire, whereas Alexius founds the empire of Trebizond further east 1211: Nicaea emperor Theodore I Lascaris conquers most of Anatolia 1261: Constantinople is liberated by the Nicaean emperor Michael VIII Paleologus and Greek becomes the official language of the ever smaller eastern Roman empire 1291: the Moslems expel the Crusaders fro  m the Middle East1345: Serbia defeats the eastern Roman empire and annexes Macedonia and Thrace 1347: the plague (Black Death) strikes Constantinople and it will kill half the population of the city 1348: Serbia defeats the eastern Roman empire and annexes Thessaly and Epirus 1453: the Ottoman Turks under Mehmet II capture Constantinople 1461: the Ottomans conquer the empire of Trebizond, the last Greek state

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Roman arena at Arles, inside view

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Roman bridge and Moorishalcazaba at Mérida, Spain

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