The Rise and Fall of Rome, 264 BC – AD 476
Ancient Rome timeline and maps
The Rise and Fall of Rome, 264 BC – AD 476 told in 12 chapters on an interactive situation map, with 17 dated maps and 44 battles, turning points and sites of memory, each drawn where it happened. This page is the index: every chapter, map and place as its own page.
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The chapters
First Punic War
CHAPTER 1 · 264 BC
Second Punic War
CHAPTER 2 · 216 BC
Roman conquest of Greece
CHAPTER 3 · 146 BC
Crisis of the Roman Republic
CHAPTER 4 · 62 BC
Julius Caesar and the civil war
CHAPTER 5 · 52 BC
Augustus and the Roman Principate
CHAPTER 6 · 30 BC
Pax Romana
CHAPTER 7 · AD 117
Crisis of the Third Century
CHAPTER 8 · AD 271
Diocletian and Constantine
CHAPTER 9 · AD 312
Adrianople and the sack of Rome
CHAPTER 10 · AD 396
Fall of the Western Roman Empire
CHAPTER 11 · AD 451
Why Rome fell
CHAPTER 12 · AD 481
Ancient Rome maps by year
Battles, events and sites of memory
◆ Alaric’s sack of Rome● Assassination of Julius Caesar● Aurelian Walls✕ Battle of Actium✕ Battle of Adrianople✕ Battle of Beneventum✕ Battle of Cannae✕ Battle of Edessa✕ Battle of Lake Trasimene✕ Battle of Pharsalus✕ Battle of Philippi✕ Battle of Pydna✕ Battle of Zama✕ Battle of the Aegates Islands✕ Battle of the Catalaunian Plains✕ Battle of the Milvian Bridge✕ Battle of the Teutoburg Forest✕ Battle of the Trebia● Bequest of Pergamon to Rome● Caesar crosses the Rubicon● Council of Nicaea● Crossing of the Rhine● Deposition of Romulus Augustulus◆ Destruction of Carthage◆ Destruction of Corinth◆ Destruction of the Second Temple● Diocletian’s Tetrarchy✕ Fall of Sarmizegetusa● Founding of Constantinople● Gallic Empire● Hadrian’s Wall◆ Massacre of Thessalonica● Murder of the Gracchi● Palmyrene Empire● Pompey’s settlement of the East● Roman annexation of Egypt● Roman conquest of Britain◆ Siege of Alesia● Siege of Saguntum◆ Spartacus revolt● Sulla’s march on Rome● The Mamertine appeal● Vandal capture of Carthage◆ Vandal sack of Rome
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