Event Overthrow of the Roman monarchy

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A political revolution replaced the then-existing Roman monarchy under Lucius Tarquinius Superbus with a republic.

Chronology

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  • January 508 BC: A political revolution replaced the then-existing Roman monarchy under Lucius Tarquinius Superbus with a republic.
  • January 508 BC: Overthrow of the Roman monarchy. At the beginning of ist republican life the control only over the city itself. The remanant controlled territories were basically lost.
  • January 509 BC: The first to free itself from the supremacy of the Tyrrhenians with the expulsion of the Tarquinians around 510 BC was Rome.