Chronological tables

753 Founding of Rome

509 Expulsion of the Tarquins; beginning of Roman Republic

451-450 The Twelve Tables

445 Lex Canuleia allowed marriages between patricians and

plebeians

367 Institution of praetorship

287 Lex Hortensia: equation of pleciscita with leges

264-241 First Punic War

252 Tiberius Coruncanius, first plebeian to be elected pontifex

maximus

242 Institution of peregrine praetorship (over foreigners)

241 Annexation of Sicily

218-201 Second Punic War

169 Lex Voconia on inheritance of women

ca.

91-89 The Social War

82-79 Dictatorship of Sulla; Leges Corneliae on criminal law

44 Assassination of Caesar

43 Assassination of Cicero

40 Lex Falcidia on succession

31 Octavian defeats Antony at the battle of Actium

27 Inauguration of the Principate

18-17 Lex Julia on marriage and lex Julia on adultery

ca. 6 Birth of Jesus of Nazareth

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