ab urbe condita

A few dates of interest

 

Urbs condita

(City established)

“11th day  before the kalens of May, 3rd year of the 6th Olympiad”

= 21 April

Eutropius, Compendium of Roman History 1, 1

 

Res publica Romana

Expulsion of the Etruscan Tarquinius Superbus

By L. Iunius Brutus et al.

(“libertas for the Romans”)

Ca. 510

(conveniently close to the “date” for the expulsion of Hippias from Athens.)

 

T. Livius 2 . 1. 7-8

 

Dionysios of Halcarnassos, Roman Antiquities 4. 84. 2

 

XII TABVLAE

450/449

For the date see Livy 3. 32. 5 and 3. 34

 

Destruction of Roma by the Celts (= Galli)

390

Livy 5. 47

 

 

"1st Punic War" 264-141

"2nd Punic War” 218-201

Livius Andronicus  140

T. Maccius Plautus 254-184

 

 

Romans defeated by Hannibal at Cannae

216

 

M. Claudius Marcellus

Carthaginians and Syracusans

At  Syracuse

211

 

P. Cornelius Scipio [Africanus]

Hannibal

Zama in Africa

202

 

T. Quinctius Flamininius

Philip the Macedonian

Cynoscephalae (in Thessallia in Greece)

Proclamation of libertas (freedom for the Graicoi (=Hellenai)

At the Ismian Games in Corinth

196

 

 

196

 

L. Cornelius Scipio

(with his legatus –and brother- P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus)

Antiochus 3rd at Magnesia in Asia

190

 

P. Terentius Afer 185-159

 

L. Aemilius Paullus

Perseus at Pydna  in Macedonia

168

 

P. Cornelius Scipio [Africanus]

Destroyed Carthage

L. Mummius

Destroyed Corinth

146

 

T. Hostilius Mancinus

Defeated by Numantines in Spain

137

 

P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus

Defeated the Numantines in Spain

134