DATES

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MONARCHY 753-510 BC

BC

c.753 Foundation of Rome

578-34 Tullius: comitia centuriata

510 Expulsion of Tarquinius Superbus

REPUBLIC 509-27 BC

494 First Secession of the plebeians

451-50 The Twelve Tables

367 Leges Liciniae Sextae

Institution of the praetorship

326 Lex Poetelia

295 Defeat of Samnites at Sentinum

287 Lex Hortensia

(?) Lex Aquilia

264-41 First Punic War

242 Institution of peregrine praetor

241 Annexation of Sicily

218-201 Second Punic War

Lex Aebutia

133, 123-2 Tribunates of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus

91-89 The Social War

67 Actio Publiciana

44 Assassination of Julius Caesar

31 Octavian defeats Antony at Actium

EMPIRE: THE PRINCIPATE 27 BC-AD 284

27 Octavian becomes Augustus

18-17 Lex Julia de maritandis

Lex Julia de adulteriis

AD

4 Lex Aelia Sentia

9 Lex Papia Poppaea

14 Death of Augustus

41-54 Reign of Claudius

52 5.

117-38 Reign of Hadrian

c. 130 S. C. Tertullianum

c. 135 Edictum Perpetuum

c. 160 Institutes of Gaius

161-80 Reign of Marcus Aurelius

212 Constitutio Antoniniana

223 Ulpian murdered

270-5 Reign of Aurelian

EMPIRE: THE DOMINATE (FROM AD 284)

284-305 Reign of Diocletian

c. 295 Codex Hermogenianus

306-37 Reign of Constantine 1

313 Edict of Milan

379-95 Reign of Theodosius I

395 Division of the Empire

408-50 Reign of Theodosius II

410 Sack of Rome by Visigoths

426 Law of Citations

438 Codex Theodosianus

476 End of the Western Empire

506 Lex Romana Visigothorum

527 Justinian becomes Emperor of the East

533 Institutes Digest

534 New Code

565 Death of Justinian

AFTER JUSTINIAN

c. 890 Basilica

c. 1055-1130 Irnerius

c. 1184-1263 Accursius

1314-57 Bartolus

1495 Reichskammergericht

1532 Court of Session

1583-1645 Grotius

1681 Stair's Institutions of the Law of Scotland

1756 Bavarian Civil Code

1804 French Civil Code

1900 German Civil Code