753 BC: Roma (Rome) is founded by Romulus
750 BC: Greeks establish a colony at Cuma
750 BC: first Etruscan inscriptions
616 BC: Tarquinius I becomes an Etruscan king of Rome
600 BC: Etruscans build the colossal tombs of Cerveteri
600 BC: the Forum is built
600 BC: oldest Latin inscriptions
550 BC: Servius Tullius builds city walls
474 BC: the Greeks defeat the Etruscans at Cuma
509 BC: the last king is expelled and Rome becomes a republic
450 BC: the Twelve Tables of the Roman law
396 BC: Rome conquers the Etruscan city of Veii
390 BC: the Gauls sack Rome
326 BC: the Circus Maximus
312 BC: the Via Appia is opened
308 BC: Rome conquers the Etruscan city of Tarquinia
287 BC: the Lex Hortensia makes plebiscites binding
280 BC: Rome issues coins
275 BC: Rome conquers southern Italy (Greek colonies)
264 BC: Rome and Carthage fight the first Punic war
264 BC: the Romans destroy the last vestiges of the Etruscan civilization (Volsinies)
222 BC: the Gauls are defeated
221 BC: the Circus Flaminius
218 BC: Hannibal invades Italy
214 BC: war machines designed by Greek mathematician Archimedes save the city of Syracuse, an ally of Carthage, from a Roman naval attack
202 BC: Scipio defeats Hannibal and Rome annexes Spain
196 BC: the Romans defeat the Macedonian king Philip V at Cynoscephalae
189 BC: Antiochus III, king of the Seleucids, is defeated at the battle of Magnesia
184 BC: the Basilica Porcia
146 BC: Rome destroys Carthage
146 BC: Rome conquers Greece with the battle of Corinth
133 BC: Attalus III of Pergamum wills his kingdom to Rome and the whole Mediterranean Sea is under Roman control ("mare nostrum")
83 BC: Sulla becomes dictator
74 BC: Cicero enters the senate
73 BC: Spartacus leads the revolt of the gladiators
64 BC: Syria becomes a Roman province
63 BC: Pompeus captures Jerusalem and annexes Palestine to Rome
53 BC: in the first war against Persia, Crassus is defeated by the Parthians at Carrhae (Syria)
51 BC: Caesar crushes revolt of Vercingetorix in Gaul
49 BC: Ceasar becomes dictator
47 BC: Ceasar invades Egypt and appoints Cleopatra queen
44 BC: Ceasar is killed.
31 BC: Octavianus (Augustus) becomes the first emperor
30 BC: Cleopatra commits suicide and Egypt is annexed to Rome
20 BC: a treaty between Rome and Persia (Parthians) fixes the boundary between the two empires along the Euphrates river (Iraq)
17 BC: the theater of Marcellus
13 BC: Augustus expands the borders to the region of the Danube
6 BC: Jesus is born in Palestine
2 AD: the Forum of Augustus
5 AD: Rome acknowledges Cymbeline, King of the Catuvellauni, as king of Britain
6 AD: Augustus expands the borders to the Balkans
12 AD: The last Etruscan inscription is carved
14 AD: Augustus dies and Tiberius becomes emperor
14 AD: five million people live in the Roman empire
25 AD: Agrippa builds the Pantheon
37 AD: Tiberius dies and the mad Caligula succeeds him
41 AD: Caligula is assassinated and is succeeded by Claudius
43 AD: Claudius invades Britain
46 AD: Thracia becomes a Roman province
50 AD: the Romans found Londinium in Britain
54 AD: Claudius is succeeded by Nero
58 AD: the Romans conquer Armenia
64 AD: Nero sets fire to Rome and blames the Christians for it
68 AD: Nero commits suicide and is succeeded by Vespasianus
79 AD: Vespasianus is succeeded by Tito
70 AD: Tito destroys Jerusalem and Jews spread in Armenia, Iraq, Iran, Arabia, Egypt, Italy, Spain and Greece
77 AD: the Romans conquer Wales
79 AD: the Vesuvius erupts and Pompeii is buried under ash
79 AD: the Colosseum
80 AD: the Romans invade Caledonia (Scotland)
84 AD: British rebels are defeated by the Romans at the battle of Mons Graupius
98 AD: Trajan becomes emperor
106: Trajan defeats Dacia that becomes a Roman province
106: Trajan captures the Nabataean capital Petra (Jordan) and turns Nabataea into the province of Arabia
112: the Forum of Trajanus
113: Colonna Traiana
116: Trajan conquers Mesopotamia and the Parthian capital Ctesiphon
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 Rome
134: Villa Hadriana
136: emperor Hadrian definitely crushes the Jewish resistance, forbids Jews from ever entering Jerusalem, and changes the name of the city to Aelia Capitolina
138: Hadrian is succeeded by Antoninus Pius, who repels Hadrian's anti-Jewish laws
139: Hadrian's mausoleum (Castel Sant'Angelo)
161: Marcus Aurelius becomes Roman emperor
164: the plague spreads throughout the Roman empire
212: Caracalla grants Roman citizenship on all free people who live in the Roman Empire
214: Caracalla murders King Abgar IX of Edessa and declares Edessa a Roman colony
216: the thermae of Caracalla
217: Caracalla is murdered in Edessa
218: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, the last of the Antonines, becomes emperor and promoties the cult of Elegabalus, a Syriac sun god
244: Shapur I becomes king of the Sassanids and attacks Rome
250: emperor Decius orders the first emperor-wide persecution of Christians
260: the Sassanid king Shapur I defeats the Romans
284: Diocletian becomes emperor but rules from Nicomedia in the East
298: Rome captures Nisibis and the Sassanids sign a peace treaty with Rome
300: the population of the Roman Empire is 60 million (about 15 million Christians)
303: Diocletian orders a general persecution of the Christians
303: the thermae of Diocletian
312: Constantine becomes emperor
313: Constantine ends the persecution of the Christians (edict of Milan)
313: Constantine recognizes the Christian church
330: Constantine I builds a new city, Constantinople (Byzantium)
334: Constantine I appoints a young senator to be his heir, who changes his name to Julius
337: Constantine I dies. Julius becomes new emperor
339: Julius appoints an emperor to every provence to govern them as sub-states. the terbulance of the Empire begins to calm.
360: General Julian (the "apostate") defeats an invasion of Barbarians
363: an earthquake destroys Petra
371: the roman army recieves renewed support. soldiers are better trained and supplied
374: the Visigoths are defeated at Hadrianopolis
382: Olympic Games are shut down along with the temple of Zeus at Olympia
408: the Visigoths are defeated
422: Rome conquers Britannia
452: Rome fights back the Huns
455: the Vandals are defeated near Rome
527: general Belisarius destroys the Arian kingdom of the Vandals and reconquers Spain and northern Africa
538: Palemaeus the great becomes emporer, starts expansion to the north
542: the plague decimates the Empire
564: Rome conquers persia
584: Palemaeus dies. Palemaeus II becomes Emperor
592: the arabs are defeated
720: Jeruselum recaptured from arabs
773: Rome conquers Holand
832: the bulgars are defeated
866: Rome conquers Norway
901: Anotolia is conquered
912: the Empire takes all of Europe
1022: Rome invades China
1036: Rome loses much of it's army, but manages to take western China
1048: Chinese rebel, take back north of Roman China
1050: Rome takes back northern China as well as most of eastern China
1062: Rome takes all of China
1104: China is spit into three provinces: Persia Nova, Palemea, and Eastern China
1192: Rome conquers Mongols
1233: Norway and Sweden unite as one province: Norseland
1248: Rome takes Africa
1276: sailors land at new world after being swept off course by a storm
1278: new Island colonized and named Norseland Nova
1305: further exploration discovers two new continents filled with barbarians named Nova Britannia Major and Nova Brittania Minor
1364: firearm invented
1366: firearms issued to all roman soldiers
1420: Roman Army conquers Catawahs
1427: Roman Army conquers Powhatans
1441: Roman Army conquers Pennacook and Pocumtuk tribes
1511: 1 milllion roman citizens inhabit Nova Brittania Major east coast
1578: expansion stops at mountain range named Hannabalis
1620: empire expands to river in the middle of N.B.Major named Tiber Maximus
1630: souix nation conquered
1671: light bulb invented
1686: petroleum engine invented
1699: new roman laws written allowing morew personal freedoms including a slavery ban
1702: telegraph invented. empire spands all of N.B.Major
1749: horseless carrage invented
1767: radio invented
1782: telephone invented
1804: airplane invented
1823: machine gun invented. both new continents completely under roman rule
1831: electronic computer invented
1833: television invented
1836: first space probe lunched
1843: entire world under roman rule
1854: manned mission to the Moon successful
1862: atomic fission bomb tested in the desert of the remote island-continent of Clopedus
1865: thermonuclear fusion bomb tested in Clopedus
1870: fission plants open amoung citizen fears
1881: widespread use of miniturized electronics
1902: the world population is 7 billion
1912: most industry completely automated. job demand goes down along with cost of living
1907: most foods genetically engineered
1928: nuclear fusion plants open. world power demand ceases
1929: holographic communication commonplace
1931: manned mission to mars successful
1934: cure for cancer discovered
1937: Colloseum Maximus built standing 1/2 kilometer, seating one hundred thousand
1939: roman army contains 4 million men and women
1941: energy based weapons issued to all roman soldiers
1944: protein synthesis invented
1947: all industry and services automated. all plebians become patricians
1953: colinization of Mars underway
1964: population of Mars is one hundred thousand
1970: 10% of mars terraformmed
1974: buckytube armor issued to all roman soldiers
1985: interstellar exploration begins. missionary I lunched to Proxima Centari
1987: population of earth is 25 billion
1989: the two kilometer long Emperor's Palace space station is built orbiting earth
1991: fleet of two hundred starships serve as the Roman Interplanetary Navy
1994: average human lifespan is 140 years
1995: neural interface commonplace. missionary I reaches proxima centari
1996: half of roman army is made up of androids
1997: average roman citizen is better off than the emperor was one hundred years ago
1998: medicine has wiped out 95% of the deseases that were around one hundred year ago
1999: antimatter powers 99% of the empire. mars population is one billion
2000: Nova Collosus is built on mars. standing five kilometers high, it can be seen from space. the earth is dedesertificated
2001: 95% of citizens consider the empire a utopia. 20% of mars is terraformmed
2002: terranopolis, the largest city in the empire, is created from the merging of six other cities in N.B Minor. it spands six hundred kilometers
2003: Present
