dates

Question 1

Regal Period

Answer 1

753-509 BC

Question 2

Republic

Answer 2

509 - 31 BC

Question 3

Roman Empire

Answer 3

31 BC - AD 476

Question 4

earliest graves in the Forum area

Answer 4

1000 - 900 BC

Question 5

traditional date of the founding of Rome

Answer 5

21 April 753

Question 6

stone wall built around base of Palatine

Answer 6

750 - 725

Question 7

Rome is a large and complex city

Answer 7

550

Question 8

Tarquin expelled and first year of the Republic

Answer 8

509

Question 9

Capitoline Temple (to Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva) dedicated

Answer 9

13 September 507

Question 10

Battle of Lake Regillus

Answer 10

496

Question 11

Secession of the plebs

Answer 11

494

Question 12

Treaty between Rome and Latin League

Answer 12

493

Question 13

Decemviri

Answer 13

451-450

Question 14

defeat of Veii

Answer 14

396

Question 15

conquest of Rome by Senones

Answer 15

390 (actual date 386)

Question 16

Servian wall built

Answer 16

378

Question 17

Defeat of the Latin League at Naples

Answer 17

340

Question 18

dissolution of the Latin League

Answer 18

338

Question 19

First, second, and third Samnite wars

Answer 19

343 - 290

Question 20

Via Appia completed

Answer 20

312

Question 21

King Pyrrhus of Epirus invades Italy, wine victory at Heraclea

Answer 21

280

Question 22

Pyrrhus wins “Pyrrhic victory” at Ausculum; leaves for Syracuse

Answer 22

279

Question 23

Pyrrhus returns to Italy and is defeated at Beneventum

Answer 23

275

Question 24

Rome captures Tarentum

Answer 24

272

Question 25

First Punis War

Answer 25

264 - 241

Question 26

Only major Roman defeats in First Punic War

Answer 26

255, 249

Question 27

Sicily is first Roman province

Answer 27

241

Question 28

Sardinia and Corsica provinces; Carthage turns to Spanish conquest

Answer 28

237

Question 29

Siege of Saguntum

Answer 29

219

Question 30

Second Punic War

Answer 30

218 - 201

Question 31

Battles of Ticinum and Trebia

Answer 31

218

Question 32

Battle of Lake Trasimene

Answer 32

217

Question 33

Battle of Cannae

Answer 33

216

Question 34

Hannibal takes Capua and is supported by Macedonia and Syracuse

Answer 34

215

Question 35

defeat of Syracuse; death of Archimedes

Answer 35

212

Question 36

Romans conquer Spain

Answer 36

206

Question 37

end of First Macedonia War

Answer 37

205

Question 38

defeat of Hasdrubal at Metarus River

Answer 38

207

Question 39

Scipio invades Africa

Answer 39

204

Question 40

Hannibal recalled

Answer 40

203

Question 41

Battle of Zama

Answer 41

202

Question 42

Treaty Signed

Answer 42

201

Question 43

Spain made into two provinces

Answer 43

197

Question 44

Philip V defeated at Cynoscephalae (Second Macedonian War)

Answer 44

197

Question 45

Antiochus III of Syria defeated at Magnesia

Answer 45

190

Question 46

Third Macedonian War ends at Pydna

Answer 46

168

Question 47

Illyricum made a province

Answer 47

167

Question 48

Third Punic War; destruction of Carthage; Africa made a province

Answer 48

149 - 146

Question 49

Fourth Macedonian War ends

Answer 49

148

Question 50

revolt of Achaean League; Achaea and Macedonia made a province

Answer 50

146

Question 51

Tiberius Gracchus, tribune of the plebs

Answer 51

133

Question 52

Gaius Gracchus, tribune of the plebs

Answer 52

123 - 122

Question 53

Gaius Marius, consul six times, five times in a row

Answer 53

107 - 100

Question 54

Social War

Answer 54

91 - 87

Question 55

siege of Rome

Answer 55

82

Question 56

Sulla dictator

Answer 56

81 - early 80

Question 57

revolt of Spartacus in Italy

Answer 57

73 - 71

Question 58

Pompey and Crassus consuls

Answer 58

70

Question 59

Gaius Julius Caesar consul

Answer 59

59

Question 60

Caesar begins first five-year command in Gaul

Answer 60

58

Question 61

Caesar's conquest of Britain

Answer 61

55 - 54

Question 62

Crassus killed at Carrhae against Parthians

Answer 62

53

Question 63

Gaul made a province

Answer 63

51

Question 64

senate declares martial law against Caesar

Answer 64

7 Jan. 49

Question 65

Caesar crosses the Rubicon River, thereby declaring civil war

Answer 65

11 Jan. 49

Question 66

Pompey defeated at Pharsalus by Caesar

Answer 66

48

Question 67

Caesar assassinated

Answer 67

15 March 44

Question 68

Brutus and Cassius defeated at Philippi by Octavian and Antony

Answer 68

42

Question 69

Battle of Actium

Answer 69

2 Sept. 31

Question 70

Octavian hands back all power to senate

Answer 70

13 Jan. 27

Question 71

Senate bestows title Augustus on Octavian

Answer 71

16 Jan 27 BC

Question 72

Clades Variana and end of major Roman expansion

Answer 72

AD 9

Question 73

Death of Augustus

Answer 73

14

Question 74

Julio-Claudian dynasty (Augustus to Nero)

Answer 74

27 BC - AD 68

Question 75

Conquest of Britain

Answer 75

43 - 74

Question 76

Year of four emperors

Answer 76

69

Question 77

Flavian dynasty (Vespasian to Domitian)

Answer 77

69 - 96

Question 78

Adoptive emperors (Nerva to Marcus Aurelius)

Answer 78

96 - 180

Question 79

abandonment of Trajan's eastern conquests

Answer 79

117