Showing posts with label rome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rome. Show all posts
Thursday, August 22, 2019

75 BC - Julius Caesar Slain by Pirates

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Chaos in Rome during Sulla’s attempts to become dictator-for-life spread chaos throughout the Mediterranean world. Many Romans were driv...
Friday, December 21, 2012

March 17, 180 – Pompeianus Succeeds Marcus Aurelius as Co-Ruler

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After having ruled for 19 years, Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus died while campaigning against the Germans.   Marcus Aurel...
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Friday, November 16, 2012

March 10, 241 BC - Carthagian Fleet Victorious at Aegates Islands

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The Roman Republic had expanded its control throughout Italy by conquest and forced treaties to create a potent confederation.  Sicily, ...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011

December 19, 216 BC – Hannibal Captures Rome

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The Second Puno-Roman War had raged for two years, and Rome became desperate after a string of catastrophic defeats at the hand of Hannibal,...
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Friday, February 4, 2011

February 4, 211 – Severus Gives Caracalla a Quest

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In the sixty-fifth year of his life, Roman Emperor Lucius Septimius Severus came under a deathly illness in the north of Britannia during hi...
Saturday, January 1, 2011

January 1, 193 – Rome Returns to the Republic

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After the assassination of Emperor Commodus, the Roman Senate arose under the guidance of Publius Helvius Pertinax to reinstate the principl...
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