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The city of Rome, Italy, has had an extensive history since antiquity.

Early history

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Tradition states that Romulus and Remus were raised by a wolf before founding Rome in 753 BC.
  • 1000 BC – Latins begin to settle in Italy

Republic

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19th-century painting of the Gallic leader Brennus looting Rome after the Battle of the Allia in 390 BC
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Imperial city

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St Peter, the first Pope, was crucified in Rome in 67 AD
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The Colosseum opened in 80 AD
  • 27 BC - Augustus is made Rome's first emperor.
  • 13 BC - The Senate commissions the Ara Pacis to honor Augustus' return to Rome.
  • c. 60 AD - Paul the Apostle arrives in Rome.
  • 64 AD - The Great Fire of Rome, rumored to be blamed by Nero on the Christians.
  • c. 65 AD - Blamed for causing the Great Fire, Christians in the city are persecuted.
  • 72 AD - Work on the Flavian Amphitheatre (Colosseum) begins.
  • 80 AD - While Titus is inspecting the damage of the eruption of Vesuvius, a fire breaks out in the city for three days, destroying Capitoline temples and the Pantheon.[2]
  • 125 AD - Emperor Hadrian has the Pantheon reconstructed, assuming its current appearance.
  • 212 AD - All the inhabitants of the empire are granted citizenship of Rome.
  • 216 AD - Work on the Baths of Caracalla is completed.
  • 217 AD - Fire, possibly caused by a lightning strike, damages the Flavian Amphitheatre.[3]
  • 225 AD - Mathematicians allowed to teach publicly at Rome.[citation needed]
  • 247 AD - The first millennium of Rome is celebrated.
  • 270 AD - Construction of the Aurelian Wall begins.
  • 274 AD - The Temple of the Sun built at Rome.
  • 284 AD - Diocletian partitions administration of the Roman Empire in half, thereby establishing the Eastern Roman Empire in Byzantium.

Late antiquity and early medieval period

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19th-century painting of the Visigothic Sack of Rome in 410 AD
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High Middle Ages

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The Papal throne in the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran dates from the 13th century
  • 1084 - The city of Rome is attacked by the Normans
  • 1108 - The church of San Clemente is in this year rebuilt.
  • 1140 - The church of Santa Maria in Trastevere is restored.
  • 1200 - The city becomes an independent commune
  • 1232 - The cloisters in the Basilica of St. John Lateran are finished.
  • 1300 - Pope Boniface VIII proclaims the First Holy Year.
  • 1309 - The Papacy is moved to Avignon under Pope Clement V
  • 1347 - The patriot and rebel Cola di Rienzo tries to restore the Roman Republic.
  • 1348 - As in most of Europe, the Black Death strikes Rome.
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Roman Renaissance

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From 1508 to 1512, Michelangelo painted the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
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Baroque period

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The Church of the Gesù was the first Baroque structure, built in 1568
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The current St. Peter's Basilica was finished in 1626
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19th century and Risorgimento

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Illustration of the proclamation of the 1849 Roman Republic in the Piazza del Popolo.
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20th century and modern Rome

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The Altare della Patria was built in honour of King Victor Emmanuel II in 1911
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Fascists, led by Benito Mussolini, at the March on Rome in 1922

21st century

See also

Other cities in the macroregion of Central Italy:(it)

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References

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