Timeline

Date/Emperor	Historical events 27 BCE Octavian is granted the title of Augustus by the senate. Effective end of the Roman Republic	Legally significant developments	Juristic developments
Julio-Claudian Dynasty 27 BCE-14CE	15 BCE Campaign in the upper		Statutory abolition of
Augustus	Danube region	13-17 BCE, lev	the I.egis Actio
		Maritandis Ordinibus; Lex Julia	procedure
		de Adulteriis Coercendis; Leges	Creation of the ins
		Julia indiciorum privatorum el publicorum	respondendi
		2 BCE Lex Fufia Caninia	Jurists of the period
	2CE Exile of Julia	4 CE Lex Aelia Sentia	include Capito,
	9 CE Battle of the Tcutoburg Forest:	9 CE Lex Papia Poppaea	Labeo, Fabius Mela
	Rhine becomes the Western boundary of the Roman Empire		Jurists of the period
14-37 CE Tiberius	14 CE Disturbances in Rhine and		include Ncrva (pater)
	Danube areas	19 CE Lex Junia Norbana	and Massurius
	32 CE Grain shortages, protests in	28 CE Lex Junia Velleia	Sabinus
	Rome 34 CE Province of Syria enlarged		Jus respondendi
37-41 CE Caligula			likely awarded to the heads of the two law
41-54 CE Claudius	43 CE Lycia becomes a Province		schools

43 CE First invasion of Britain

54-68 CE Nero

46 CE Thrace becomes a province

51 CE Grain shortages, protests in Rome

61 CE Revolt of Boudicca

46 CE Senatusconsultum Velleianum

52 CE Senatusconsultum

Claudianum

68-69 CE Year of the four Emperors

Galba.

Otho. Vitellius,

Vespasian

64 CE Great fire in Rome; state prosecutions of Christians commence

65 CE Conspiracy to assassinate Nero

Jurists of the period include Nerva (filius), Longinus and Proculus

Flavian Dynasty 69*79 CE Vespasian

70 CE Destruction of Jerusalem Senatusconsultum

70 CE Judea becomes a Roman Macedonianum (uncertain date) Jurists of the period

province Lexdeimperio Vespasiani include Caccilius

77 CE Roman conquest of Britian Sabinus

resumes

79-81 CE Titus

79 CE Eruption of Vesuvius Jurists of the period

80 CE Flavian Amphitheatre opened include Pegasus

81-96 CE Domitian

83 CE Battle of Mons Graupius in Scotland; Britain (England and Wales) becomes a Roman province

84 CE Disturbances on Rhine front er

93 CE Stoics expelled from Rome

Datc/Empcror Nerva-Antonine Dvnast 96- 98 CE Nerva 97- 117 CE Trajan	Historical events X 101-102 CE First Dacian War 105-106 CE Second Dacian War 106 CE Dacia becomes a province 106 CE Arabia becomes a Roman	Legally significant Juristic developments developments 97 CE Lex Agraria (final piece of legislation to be enacted by the popular assemblies)
	province 111 CE Pliny sent as governor to Bythinia 112 CE Trajan’s Column creeled 114 CE Armenia becomes a province 115 CE Mesopotamia becomes a province		Jurists of the period
117-138 CE Hadrian	117 CE Empire-wide revolts		include lavolcnus
	126 CE Hadrian’s Wall completed		Priscus, Titius Aristo,
	131 CE Bar-Kokhba Revolt	130 CE Senatusconsultum	Celsus (filius),
	131-135 CE Jewish uprising in	Tertulliaum	Neratius Priscus.
	Palestine suppressed		Octavenus. Salvius
	(Jews prevented from entering	135 CE Edictum Perpetuum	lulianus
	Jerusalem)		Effective end of the
138-161 CE	142 CE Antonine Wall completed;		ins respondendi.
Antoninus Pius	Devaluation of the currency

bgcolor=white>161 -169 CE 167 CE Major Germanic invasion of

Senatusconsultum Orfitianum	Jurists of the period
Lucius Verus the Empire thwarted		include Pomponius; Institutes of Gaius written
161-180 CE Marcus Aurelius (reigned from 161 as co-regent		Jurists of the period
with Lucius Verus until		include S. Caecilius
his death)		Africanus;
177-192 CE Commodus Fiscal problems across the Empire		Maccianus, Terentius Clemens. Saturninus, Florentinus; Ulpius
193 CE Year of the five Emperors Pertinax, Didius Julianus, Pescennius Niger. Septimius Severus		Marcellus
Severan Dynasty 193-21 ICE Septimius Severus
198-217 CE Caracalla	212 CE Constitutio An ton ini ana
217-218 CE Macrinus and Diadumedianus
Da te¹ Emperor Historical events	Legally significant	Juristic
	developments	developments
218-222 CE Eliogabalus		Jurists of the period
222-235 CE		include Papinianus.
Alexander Severus		Tryphoninus, Ulpianus. Paulus
The crisis of the third 238 CE Revolts in North Africa century		Modestinus, the last 'named' Roman jurist
260 CE Many of the Empire’s frontiers under attack		of the classical period
284-305 CE Diocletian

This timeline is based on information from the following sources: P.J. Du Plessis. Borkowski 's Textbook on Roman Law 3rd edn (Oxford 2009) Timeline (online resources); C.E. Robinson, A History of the Roman Republic 2nd edn (London 1937), 455-66; Μ. Carey and H.H. Scullard, A History of Rome 3rd edn (London 1992), 559-70; O.E. Tellegen-Couperus, A Short History of Roman Law (London/New York 1993), 150-65 as well as Cassell's Chronology of World History (London 2005). Information about legislation is based on the chronology in J.E. Spruit, Enchridium: Een Geschiedenis van het Romeinse Privaalrechl 4th edn (Deventer 1994) 306-13.

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Source: Du Plessis P.. Studying Roman Law. Bristol Classical Press,2012. — 150 p.. 2012

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