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616 {---- ---- Tarquinius Priscus.
{The Augurs acquire importance in the state.
578 {Death of Tarquinius Priscus.
{Accession of Servius Tullius.
{The establishment of the Centuries.
534 {Murder of Servius Tullius.
{Accession of Tarquinius Superbus.
{Gabii taken by stratagem.
509 {Expulsion of Tarquinius Superbus.
{Establishment of Consuls.
508 {Conspiracy for the restoration of the Tarquinii.
{Death of Brutus.
507 War with Porsenna.
498 Lartius the first Dictator created.
493 {The Roman populace retire to Mons Sacer.
{Tribunes of the people appointed.
487 {Exile of Coriola.n.u.s.
{Rome besieged by Coriola.n.u.s.
{His retreat and death.
484 Condemnation and death of Ca.s.sius.
459 First Dictators.h.i.+p of Cincinnatus.
457 Second ditto.
454 The Romans send to Athens for Solon's laws.
451 The laws of the Twelve Tables--The Decemviri.
449 The expulsion of the Decemviri.
443 Military Tribunes chosen instead of Consuls.
442 The Censors.h.i.+p inst.i.tuted.
439 Maelius murdered by Ahala.
406 The siege of Veii begun.
396 Veii taken by Camillus.
391 The Gauls invade Italy.
390 {The battle of Allia. Rome sacked by the Gauls.
{The Gauls defeated by Camillus.
383 Manlius put to death on a charge of treason.
361 Curtius devotes himself in the Forum.
342 Beginning of the Samnite war.
339 {Manlius puts his son to death for disobedience.
{Decius devotes himself for his country.
320 A Roman army forced to surrender to the Samnites in the Caudine Forks.
280 Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, invades Italy.
272 ---- finally defeated by Curius Dentatus.
270 Tarentum surrendered to the Romans.
264 Commencement of the first Punic war.
260 The Carthaginian fleet defeated by Duilius.
256 Regulus defeated by Xantippus.
252 Regulus sent to negociate peace. His death.
241 End of the first Punic war.
234 {The temple of Ja.n.u.s shut, and Rome at peace, for the first time since the death of Numa.
{Literature cultivated at Rome.
229 War with the Illyrians.
225 {The Gauls invade Italy a second time.
{---- ---- are defeated by Marcellus, who gains the spolia opima.
218 {The second Punic war begins.
{Hanniball invades Italy.
{Battle of the Ticenus.
{ ---- of the Trebia.
217 ---- of the lake Thrasymene.
216 ---- of Cannae.
214 The Romans begin an auxiliary war against Philip of Macedon.
