Rome: All Data
Rome is a city in Italy (with S. Marino and Vatican). This page covers its chronology of mentions across 5,500 years of history, including capitals, battles, events and subdivisions. Part of Phersu Atlas.
1. Lists and Timelines
Rome: Chronology of Mentions
Note: For polities of antiquity, the listed capital or subdivision capital may also represent one or several of the most important cities of the region.
753 BC
Capital of Kingdom of Rome
699 BC
Mentioned in Event: Expansion of Rome during the monarchic period
615 BC
Mentioned in Event: Roman-Etruscan Wars
509 BC
Mentioned in Event: Roman-Etruscan Wars
508 BC
Mentioned in Event: Overthrow of the Roman monarchy
508 BC
Capital of Roman Republic
507 BC
Mentioned in Event: Siege of Rome by Lars Porsena (508)
506 BC
Mentioned in Event: Roman-Etruscan Wars
389 BC
Mentioned in Event: Gallic Sack of Rome
388 BC
Mentioned in Event: End of the Roman influence on the Latin League
357 BC
Mentioned in Event: Roman-Latin wars
49 BC
Mentioned in Event: Caesar's Civil War
45 BC
Mentioned in Event: Caesar's Civil War
40 BC
Mentioned in: Battle of Perugia
27 BC
Capital of Roman Empire
117 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Province of Italia, part of Roman Empire
286 AD
Mentioned in Event: Early Tetrarchic Period
286 AD
Capital of Maximian: West
306 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
306 AD
Capital of Severus: West
308 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
308 AD
Capital of Maxentius and Maximine: West
309 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
309 AD
Capital of Maxentius: West
314 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
314 AD
Capital of Constantine: West
325 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
337 AD
Mentioned in Event: Division of the Empire among the sons of Constantine the Great
337 AD
Capital of Constans
351 AD
Mentioned in Event: Roman civil war of 350-353
351 AD
Capital of Magnentius
353 AD
Mentioned in Event: Roman civil war of 350-353
395 AD
Mentioned in Event: Definitive Division of the Roman Empire
400 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Prafecture of Italia Suburbicaria, part of Western Roman Empire
410 AD
Mentioned in Event: Sack of Rome (410)
410 AD
Mentioned in: Sack of Rome (410)
455 AD
Mentioned in Event: Sack of Rome (455)
455 AD
Mentioned in: Sack of Rome (455)
455 AD
Capital of Western Roman Empire
472 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Rome (472)
476 AD
Mentioned in Event: Fall of the Western Roman Empire
490 AD
Mentioned in Event: Conquest of Italy by Theoderic the Great
537 AD
Mentioned in Event: First Intervention (Gothic War)
537 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Rome (537-538), part of First Intervention (Gothic War)
538 AD
Mentioned in Event: First Intervention (Gothic War)
550 AD
Mentioned in Event: First Intervention (Gothic War)
552 AD
Mentioned in Event: Battle of Taginae
580 AD
Mentioned in Event: Siege of Rome (580)
706 AD
Mentioned in Event: Occupation of Cities in the church state by the lombards
729 AD
Mentioned in Event: Donation of Sutri
729 AD
Capital of Papal States
756 AD
Mentioned in Event: Siege of Rome (756)
922 AD
Mentioned in Event: Hungarian invasions of Europe
928 AD
Mentioned in Event: Hungarian invasions of Europe
938 AD
Mentioned in Event: Hungarian invasions of Europe
941 AD
Mentioned in Event: Hungarian invasions of Europe
948 AD
Mentioned in Event: Hungarian invasions of Europe
1084 AD
Mentioned in: Sack of Rome (1084), part of Investiture Controversy
1295 AD
Capital of Papal States
1377 AD
Capital of Papal States
1409 AD
Mentioned in Event: Military Campaigns of Ladislaus I
1411 AD
Mentioned in Event: Military Campaigns of Ladislaus I
1413 AD
Mentioned in Event: Military Campaigns of Ladislaus I
1414 AD
Mentioned in Event: Military Campaigns of Ladislaus I
1527 AD
Mentioned in Event: Imperial Conquest and Sack of the Papal States
1527 AD
Mentioned in: Sack of Rome (1527), part of War of the League of Cognac
1528 AD
Mentioned in Event: Imperial Conquest and Sack of the Papal States
1798 AD
Mentioned in Event: War of the First Coalition
1798 AD
Capital of Roman Republic (Napoleonic)
1799 AD
Mentioned in Event: War of the Second Coalition
1809 AD
Mentioned in Event: French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
1812 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Department of Rome, part of First French Empire
1814 AD
Mentioned in Event: War of the Sixth Coalition
1815 AD
Mentioned in Event: Austrian counterattack (Neapolitan War)
1815 AD
Mentioned in Event: Neapolitan attack (Neapolitan War)
1849 AD
Mentioned in Event: Revolution in the Papal States
1849 AD
Mentioned in: Fall of Rome (1849), part of French Invasion of the Papal States
1849 AD
Capital of Roman Republic (1849)
1850 AD
Mentioned in Event: French Invasion of the Papal States
1851 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Legation of Roma, part of Papal States
1870 AD
Mentioned in Event: Capture of Rome
1871 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Compartimento of Lazio, part of Kingdom of Italy
1872 AD
Capital of Kingdom of Italy
1920 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Compartimento of Lazio, part of Kingdom of Italy
1923 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Compartimento of Lazio, part of Kingdom of Italy
1929 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Compartimento of Lazio, part of Kingdom of Italy
1941 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Compartimento of Lazio, part of Kingdom of Italy
1943 AD
Mentioned in Event: Operation Achse
1943 AD
Mentioned in Event: War in the German Operational Zones of northern Italy
1943 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Compartimento of Lazio, part of Italian Social Republic
1944 AD
Mentioned in Event: Italian Campaign (World War II)
1946 AD
Capital of Italian Republic
1948 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Region of Lazio, part of Italian Republic