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Ancient Rome - Dates

1.
Caracalla expand Roman citizenship
212CE
2.
Tetrarchy instituted
293CE
3.
Diocletian's reform of coin
301-302 CE
4.
Battle of Milvian Bridge Constantine I defeats Maxentius
312CE
5.
Constantine chooses Byzantium renamed Constintanopole
324 CE
6.
Julian succeeds Constantius II
361 CE
7.
Empire divided into Arcaduis and Honorius
395 CE
8.
Honorius and Army abandon Britain
410 CE
9.
Visigoths lead by Alaric I sack Rome
410 CE
10.
Theodosian Code issued
438CE
11.
Vandals establish kingdom in North Africa
429-439 CE
12.
Romulus Augustulus last western emperor deposed by Odoacer
476CE
13.
Theodoric the Ostrogoth retakes Italy as 'King of the Romans'
489CE
14.
Justinian I rules Byzantine empire
527-565CE
15.
Second Triumvirate former
43 BCE
16.
Octavian defeats Antony and Cleopatra
31 BCE
17.
Augustus introduces morality legislation
18-17BCE
18.
Great Fire of Rome
64 CE
19.
Destruction of the Second Temple of Jeruselum
70 CE
20.
Mt Vesuvius erupts
79 CE
21.
Hadrian's Wall constructed
120's
22.
Plague sweeps empire
mid 160's-170's