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Timeline of Roman history

timeline of Rome from its founding in 753 BC to the fall of Constantinople in 1453 AD

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ186916 ↗
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This is a timeline of Roman history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the Roman Kingdom and Republic and the Roman and Byzantine Empires. To read about the background of these events, see Ancient Rome and History of the Byzantine Empire.

Events and persons of the Kingdom of Rome (and to some degree of the early Republic) are legendary, and their accounts are considered to have varying degrees of veracity.

Following tradition, this timeline marks the deposition of Romulus Augustulus and the Fall of Constantinople as the end of Rome in the west and east, respectively. See Third Rome for a discussion of claimants to the succession of Rome.

8th and 7th centuries BC

6th century BC

5th century BC

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3rd century BC

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1st century BC

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13th century

14th century

15th century

See also

Index of ancient Rome–related articles

History of the Roman Empire

List of Roman emperors

Outline of ancient Rome

Outline of the Byzantine Empire

References

Sources

Eshel, Hanan (2006). "The Bar Kochba Revolt, 132–135". In Katz, Steven T. (ed.). The Late Roman-Rabbinic Period. The Cambridge History of Judaism.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Timeline of Roman history” is timeline of Rome from its founding in 753 BC to the fall of Constantinople in 1453 AD. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Timeline, Roman and history, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Timeline, Roman and history is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Timeline of Roman history” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.