Events
Displaying events 1 - 300 of 1136 in total
| ID | Category | Subcategory | Date | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4945 | Society | Famine | 994AD | Famine in Kievan Rus' |
| 501 | Society | Mass Death | 986AD | Cattle and human pestilence |
| 498 | Society | Famine | 976AD | Famine in England |
| 497 | Society | Mass Death | 962AD | Great Mortality/Fever in 962 |
| 4936 | Society | Famine | 874AD | Famine in Constantiople |
| 70 | Society | War | 732AD Oct. | Saracens fight two battles near Poitiers and River Berre against Charles Martel during their conquest of Gaul |
| 4948 | Society | Mass Death | 676AD | A heavy pestilence follows the comet's appearance |
| 4808 | Society | People | 642AD | Flaochad struck down by fever |
| 4764 | Society | War | 636AD | Saracens kill 150,000 of Emperor Heraclius' men |
| 2320 | Society | War | 635AD | Gascons rebell against the Franks |
| 4561 | Society | War | 632AD | The wendish Slavs raid Frankish kingdom and Thuringia |
| 2284 | Society | War | 631AD | Wends lay waste Francia and Thuringia - Saxons cease to pay tribute |
| 2277 | Society | Sack or Destruction of City | 630AD | Many Northern Italian cities are destroyed and razed |
| 2278 | Society | Mass Death | 630AD | Bulgars are chased out of Pannonia and killed by Bavarians |
| 2274 | Society | People | 628AD | Dagobert I is praised for his prosperous rule of Austrasia |
| 1880 | Society | Slave Rebellion | 623AD | The wendish Slavs revolt against the Huns |
| 4519 | Society | Massacre | 600AD | King Chlotar's army is massacred by Kings Theudebert and Theuderic |
| 4520 | Society | Sack or Destruction of City | 600AD | King Theudebert's and Theuderic's army lay waste the towns and districts along the Seine |
| 4256 | Society | Mass sickness | 599AD | Marseilles and other cities are devastated by plague |
| 4359 | Society | War | 594AD | In a war between Franks and Bretons many fall by the sword |
| 2082 | Society | War | 593AD | Invasion of the kingdom of Chlotar with great losses |
| 2079 | Society | People | 588AD | Arian Goths are forced to be baptized and Arian books are burnt |
| 2076 | Society | Mass sickness | 585AD | An army is defeated by sickness |
| 329 | Society | Sack or Destruction of City | 546AD Dec. 17 | Sack of Rome by Totila |
| 4516 | Society | Sack or Destruction of City | 539AD Dec. | A mighty hunnic army plunders city of Cassandria and leads away one hundred and twenty thousand captives |
| 118 | Society | People | 532AD Jan. | An insurrection breaks out unexpectedly in Byzantinum. Procopius describes a "disease of the soul" amongst people of "factions". |
| 173 | Society | Sack or Destruction of City | 502AD | Siege of Amida, at least 85,000 killed |
| 1845 | Society | Sack or Destruction of City | 452AD | The scourge of God and leader of the Huns Attila destroys many cities in Italy |
| 108 | Society | Famine | 412AD | Rome falls by intense famine |
| 94 | Society | Sack or Destruction of City | 410AD Aug. 24 | Sack of Rome |
| 4937 | Society | Mass sickness | 400AD | A pestilence strikes as has never occurred before within the memory of man |
| 4938 | Society | Famine | 400AD | Famine |
| 5614 | Society | Laws and legal system | 394AD | College of the Vestals was disbanded and the sacred fire extinguished |
| 4902 | Society | Human Prodigies | 390AD | A dwarf and a giant and other prodigies appear at the same time as the comet of 390 |
| 1420 | Society | Human Prodigies | 359AD | Birth of two-headed infant |
| 2149 | Society | Mass Death | 333AD | An innumerable multitude perish from pestilence and famine in Syria and Cilicia |
| 4517 | Society | Famine | 331AD | An extremely severe famine in the east causes lootings |
| 2304 | Society | Mass Death | 312AD | Innumberable deaths by famine and plague |
| 4514 | Society | Famine | 305AD | Famine |
| 4511 | Society | War | 305AD | Wars and Revolts |
| 4513 | Society | Mass sickness | 305AD | Plagues |
| 504 | Society | Mass Death | 270AD Aug. | A plague causes widespread death |
| 121 | Society | Mass Death | 259AD | Plague of Cyprian |
| 4613 | Society | War | 250AD | War between Emperor Decius' Romans and the Goths around Philippopolis |
| 4562 | Society | Mass Death | 189AD | Up to two thousand die in Rome from last wave of the Antonine Plague in a single day |
| 4559 | Society | Famine | 162AD (Spr.) | Famine after flood of the Tiber |
| 1483 | Society | Massacre | 68AD (Spr.) | Merciless terror excerted by the Zealots: "He who survived called them that were already dead happy" |
| 4552 | Society | Human Prodigies | 66AD | "Divine fury" makes man shout "Woe, woe to Jerusalem!" |
| 4165 | Society | Laws and legal system | 52AD | Astrologers are expelled from Italy |
| 4164 | Society | Mass Death | 50AD | Pestilence in a frightful winter prevents invasion of Armenia |
| 5665 | Society | Politics | 14AD Aug. 19 | Death of Augustus |
| 5663 | Society | Politics | 13BC | Death of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, supporter of Caesar, triumvir with Antony and Octavian |
| 4686 | Society | Mass Death | 24BC | Famine leads to distempers and a pestilential disease in men |
| 2942 | Society | Famine | 24BC | Famine in Syria: People eat many things that did not used to be eaten |
| 2939 | Society | Mass Death | 29BC | A pestilential disease carries off the greatest part of the multitude |
| 5666 | Society | Politics | 30BC Aug. 12 | Death of Cleopatra VII Philopator, Queen of Egypt, mistress/wife of Marcus Antonius |
| 5523 | Society | Politics | 30BC Aug. 1 | Death of Marcus Antonius, supporter of Julius Caesar |
| 4717 | Society | War | 31BC Sep. 2 | Battle of Actium |
| 5598 | Society | Politics | 35BC | Sextus Pompeius Magnus Pius: executed without trial by order of Antony via Marcus Titius |
| 5602 | Society | Politics | 39BC | Death of Quintus Labienus: traitor to Caesar and to Rome |
| 5709 | Society | Politics | 40BC | Gaius Asinius Pollio, consul 40 BC; friend of Caesar and Antony; historian, literary patron |
| 5608 | Society | War | 40BC | Publius Ventidius Bassus; protege of Caesar; defeated Quintus Labienus and the Parthians |
| 5545 | Society | Politics | 42BC Oct. 23 | Suicide death of Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger, leading assassin of Julius Caesar |
| 5569 | Society | Politics | 42BC Oct. 3 | Death of Gaius Cassius Longinus: leader of the assassination plot against Julius Caesar |
| 5568 | Society | Politics | 42BC | Servilius Casca, one of Caesar's assassins |
| 5706 | Society | Politics | 43BC | Servius Sulpicius Galba, friend, legate and assassin of Julius Caesar; condemned by Pedian law |
| 5708 | Society | Politics | 43BC | Lucius Cornelius Balbus minor; served under Julius Caesar; 43 BC quaestor to Asinius Pollio |
| 5687 | Society | Assassination | 44BC Mar. 13 | Assassination of Julius Caesar, the archetypal model of the passion of Jesus Christ |
| 5596 | Society | Politics | 45BC Apr. 12 | Death of Gnaeus Pompeius the younger; executed by Lucius Caesennius Lento for treason |
| 5607 | Society | War | 45BC Mar. 17 | Battle of Munda; Caesar fights for his life among the ranks |
| 5566 | Society | Politics | 45BC | Porcia Catonis, daughter of Cato the Younger, marries Brutus the assassin |
| 5711 | Society | Politics | 45BC | Caecilia Metella wife of Publius Cornelius Lentulus Spinther; affair with Publius Cornelius Dolabella; divorce scandal |
| 5586 | Society | People | 45BC | Claudia Pulchra Major, first wife of Brutus, divorced by him to marry Porcia Catonis |
| 5556 | Society | Politics | 46BC Apr. | Death of Cato the Younger, sworn enemy of Caesar |
| 5588 | Society | War | 46BC Feb. 7 | Battle of Thapsus: Caesar vs Optimates/Metellus Scipio |
| 5601 | Society | Politics | 47BC | Terentia, wife of Cicero, divorces him possibly because she was a supporter of Caesar |
| 5517 | Society | Assassination | 48BC Sep. 29 | Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus murdered by servants of Ptolemy XIII |
| 1472 | Society | War | 48BC Aug. 9 | Battle of Pharsalus; Julius Caesar defeats Pompeius Magnus |
| 5606 | Society | War | 48BC | Battle of Ruspina: Caesar vs. Titus Labienus, the traitor |
| 5702 | Society | War | 48BC | Death of Milo, murderer of Clodius; at Compsa Castle, site of prodigies the previous years |
| 5600 | Society | Politics | 48BC | Death of Marcus Caelius Rufus in rebellion against Caesar |
| 5599 | Society | Politics | 49BC | Titus Labienus, traitor to Caesar |
| 5668 | Society | Politics | 49BC | Gaius Claudius Marcellus Maior, consul 49 BC, opponent of Caesar; started civil war; fled Rome with Pompeius |
| 5522 | Society | War | 49BC | Gaius Scribonius Curio defeated by Juba, along with aid from Attius Varus, at the Second Battle of the Bagradas River |
| 5667 | Society | Politics | 49BC | Death of Curio, supporter of Caesar, husband of Fulvia |
| 5669 | Society | Politics | 49BC | Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Crus, consul 49 BC, triggered civil war; fled Rome |
| 5565 | Society | Politics | 49BC | Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Cornelianus Scipio Nasica: 'personally despicable... politically reactionary'; triggered war with Caesar |
| 5680 | Society | Politics | 50BC | Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus (consul 50 BC); destroyed the temples of Isis and Serapis by Senate decree |
| 5703 | Society | Politics | 50BC | Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor, consul 50 BC, opposed Caesar; was later pardoned |
| 5733 | Society | Politics | 50BC (Spr.) | Cicero deals with Brutus' financial scandal: extorting Cypriot communities |
| 5705 | Society | Politics | 51BC | Servius Sulpicius Rufus, consul 51 BC; opposed Caesar, later honored by Caesar |
| 5704 | Society | Politics | 51BC | Marcus Claudius Marcellus, consul 51 BC, optimate; urged extreme measures against Caesar; had a senator of Comum scourged |
| 5681 | Society | War | 52BC Sep. | Vercingetorix defeated at the battle of Alesia |
| 5529 | Society | Assassination | 52BC Jan. 18 | Titus Annius Milo Papianus murders Clodius triggering anarchy in Rome |
| 675 | Society | Prodigy | 52BC | Portents follow the decree of the Senate to tear down temples of Serapis and Isis |
| 5691 | Society | War | 52BC (Spr.) | Battle of Gergovia: Julius Caesar vs Vercingetorix; the Gauls won |
| 5521 | Society | Assassination | 52BC | Assassination of Popularist Publius Clodius Pulcher by Milo; mob violence overtakes Rome; Pompey takes charge |
| 5531 | Society | Politics | 52BC | Fulvia: first Roman non-mythological woman to appear on Roman coins; appears in records at death of Clodius, her 1st husband |
| 4167 | Society | Prodigy | 53BC | Lightning, monsters and death of politicians portend political changes |
| 1452 | Society | Prodigy | 53BC | Portents afflict Crassus and his army while crossing the Euphrates |
| 5544 | Society | War | 53BC | Marcus Licinius Crassus: wealthiest man in Roman history; patron of Julius Caesar; defeated and killed by Parthians |
| 1449 | Society | Prodigy | 53BC | Some statues sweated, some struck by lightning in Rome |
| 5683 | Society | Politics | 57BC | Aulus Gabinius, (consul 58 BC) proconsul of Syria (57 BC); supporter of both Pompey and Caesar |
| 5692 | Society | Politics | 58BC | Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, consul 58 BC, father-in-law of Julius Caesar |
| 5597 | Society | Politics | 59BC | Clodia Metelli Quadrantaria; sister of Publius Clodius Pulcher, enemy of Cicero; suspected of poisoning her husband, Metellus Celer |
| 5567 | Society | Politics | 59BC | Calpurnia Piso, marries Julius Caesar |
| 5562 | Society | Laws and legal system | 59BC | Gaius Antonius Hybrida (the monster) co-consul with Cicero; prosecuted and exiled for taking part in the Catilinarian conspiracy |
| 5710 | Society | Politics | 60BC | Quintus Metellus Celer, consul 60 BC; Gaius Asinius Pollio, dated the start of the Civil Wars to this year |
| 5713 | Society | Politics | 60BC | Lucius Afranius, consul 60 BC |
| 5524 | Society | War | 62BC Jan. | Lucius Sergius Catilina killed at the Battle of Pistoria |
| 5662 | Society | Politics | 63BC Dec. 29 | Cicero gives up his consulship, jeered by the crowd. |
| 5661 | Society | Politics | 63BC Dec. 10 | Cicero denounced as a tyrant for the Catilinarian affair, posts a bill for subsidized grain distribution to regain popularity |
| 5712 | Society | Politics | 63BC Dec. 5 | Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura: executed by Cicero as a "Catilinarian Conspirator" |
| 5660 | Society | Politics | 63BC Dec. 5 | Cicero's Bona Dea miracle/conspiracy Fourth Catilinarian Oration; Caesar and Cato speak; executions |
| 5659 | Society | Politics | 63BC Dec. 3 | Catilinarian 'conspirators' arrested; Cicero cannot conceal his glee |
| 5658 | Society | Politics | 63BC Nov. 9 | Second Catilinarian oration by Cicero |
| 5657 | Society | Politics | 63BC Nov. 8 | First Catilinarian oration by Cicero: a study in propaganda and intimidation |
| 5656 | Society | Politics | 63BC Oct. 27 | The conspiracy of Catiline fails to materialize; Cicero's credibility collapses; threatened with a court of inquiry |
| 5664 | Society | People | 63BC Sep. 23 | Birth of Gaius Octavius, future 1st emperor of Rome; Imperātor Caesar Dīvī Fīlius Augustus |
| 5651 | Society | Politics | 63BC Jun. | Death of Metellus Pius, Caesar elected Pontifex Maximus |
| 5604 | Society | Laws and legal system | 63BC Mar. | The trial of Gaius Rabirius (senator): involved in the death of Lucius Appuleius Saturninus |
| 5652 | Society | Politics | 63BC Feb. | Cicero rejects Caesar's Land Reform/support for Veterans bill |
| 5525 | Society | Politics | 63BC Jan. | Marcus Tullius Cicero takes up his consulship |
| 5587 | Society | People | 63BC | Junia Tertia born, daughter of Julius Caesar? Wife of assassin Gaius Cassius Longinus |
| 1440 | Society | Prodigy | 63BC | Revival of ancient augural rite; bad omens resulted |
| 5707 | Society | Politics | 64BC | Lucius Julius Caesar, consul 64 BC; cousin and supporter of Julius Caesar; tried Gaius Rabirius |
| 5563 | Society | People | 64BC | Titus Livius, historian of Rome |
| 5572 | Society | Politics | 66BC | Gaius Licinius Macer: annalist, people's rights activist; defamed, prosecuted and ruined by Cicero, commits suicide |
| 75 | Society | Slave Rebellion | 73BC | Third Servile War, Spartacus, Crassus, Pompey |
| 5592 | Society | War | 73BC | Third Mithridatic War; Rome vs Mithridates VI |
| 5617 | Society | Laws and legal system | 73BC | Fabia, chief Vestal acquitted of incestum with Lucius Sergius Catilina. |
| 5679 | Society | Politics | 78BC | Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (consul 78 BC), turned against Sulla and became Popularist rebel and revolutionary |
| 5515 | Society | Politics | 81BC | Sulla's dictatorship and reforms |
| 5520 | Society | Massacre | 82BC Nov. | Battle of the Colline Gate; Samnites and Populares slaughtered by Sulla |
| 5609 | Society | Massacre | 82BC | Marcus Marius Gratidianus: popularist reformer and human sacrifice martyr during Sullan proscriptions |
| 1310 | Society | Massacre | 82BC | Proscriptions of Sulla |
| 5505 | Society | Politics | 82BC | Civil war: Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, dictator of Rome |
| 5514 | Society | War | 82BC | Sulla's second civil war |
| 5518 | Society | War | 83BC | Battle of Mount Tifata; First Roman Civil War |
| 5519 | Society | Politics | 83BC | Rebellion in Spain: Quintus Sertorius, popularist general |
| 5511 | Society | War | 85BC | Battle of Orchomenus; Sulla over Archelaus; Sulla's settlement |
| 5509 | Society | Massacre | 86BC Feb. 12 | Sulla's siege of Athens |
| 5516 | Society | Politics | 86BC | Lucius Cornelius Cinna: Domination of Cinna |
| 5510 | Society | War | 86BC | Battle of Chaeronea; Sulla over Archelaus |
| 5612 | Society | Politics | 87BC | Marcus Antonius (consul 99 BC); executed by Marius and Cinna |
| 5508 | Society | Massacre | 88BC May | Massacre of Romans & Italici in Asia by Mithridates |
| 5513 | Society | War | 88BC | Sulla's First Civil War |
| 5507 | Society | War | 89BC | First Mithridatic War; Kingdom of Pontus and many Greek cities rebelled against Rome |
| 5504 | Society | War | 91BC (Spr.) | Roman Social War (91–88 BC) |
| 5650 | Society | Politics | 91BC | Marcus Livius Drusus proposed land reform and giving Roman citizenship to all freemen of Italy; triggered Social War |
| 2797 | Society | Mass sickness | 94BC Jul. | Pestilence in Babylon; many deaths |
| 5497 | Society | Prodigy | 94BC | Multiple prodigies recorded at Rome |
| 5594 | Society | People | 95BC | Mucia Tertia: wife of Gaius Marius minor, Pompeius Magnus, Marcus Aemilius Scaurus; mother of Sextus Pompeius |
| 5555 | Society | Laws and legal system | 95BC | Lex Licinia Mucia passed ejecting non-citizens from Rome or prosecuting 'false citizens'; triggered Social War |
| 5613 | Society | Politics | 100BC Dec. | Gaius Memmius "a man fiercely hostile to the power of the nobles" murdered during consular elections |
| 3076 | Society | People | 100BC Jul. 12 | Gaius Julius Caesar, Birth, GJC Era |
| 5595 | Society | People | 100BC | Marcus Aemilius Scaurus (praetor 56 BC); massacres in Judea mentioned in the Dead Sea scrolls |
| 5605 | Society | Assassination | 100BC | Saturninus: popularist reformer proposes land reform using Tolosan gold; murdered by mob of aristocrats |
| 5492 | Society | Massacre | 101BC | Battle of Vercellae |
| 5493 | Society | Massacre | 102BC | Battle of Aquae Sextiae |
| 5564 | Society | People | 104BC | Servilia Caepionis: mistress of Julius Caesar, mother of Brutus, half-sister of Cato the Younger |
| 74 | Society | Slave Rebellion | 104BC | Second Servile War; Gaius Marius |
| 5611 | Society | Massacre | 105BC Oct. 6 | Battle of Arausio: catastrophic loss of entire Roman army caused by Quintus Servilius Caepio |
| 5610 | Society | War | 105BC | Quintus Servilius Caepio plunders the temples of Tolosa and then loses entire Roman army in Battle of Arausio |
| 2793 | Society | Mass sickness | 106BC | Pestilence in Babylon |
| 2790 | Society | Mass sickness | 108BC | Pestilence in Babylon affected humans and dogs |
| 5585 | Society | People | 110BC | Titus Pomponius Atticus; friend, correspondent, and publisher of Cicero |
| 5506 | Society | War | 112BC | Jugurthine War |
| 5616 | Society | Expiation | 114BC | Vestal Virgins Aemilia, Licinia, and Martia buried alive for unchastity |
| 5593 | Society | People | 116BC | Marcus Terentius Varro Reatinus; the most learned of the Romans; Varronian chronology |
| 5590 | Society | People | 118BC | Lucius Licinius Lucullus; fought Third Mithridatic War; gastronome, "Xerxes in a toga" |
| 5527 | Society | People | 120BC | Aurelia Cotta, mother of Julius Caesar; ideal Roman matron |
| 5571 | Society | Laws and legal system | 120BC | Establishment of senatus consultum ultimum in Roman constitutional practice; tool used for oppression |
| 5533 | Society | People | 121BC | Gaius Sempronius Gracchus murdered by Roman Senate |
| 5547 | Society | People | 121BC | Death of Marcus Fulvius Flaccus (consul 125 BC): ally of the Gracchi |
| 5570 | Society | Politics | 121BC | Lucius Opimius (consul 121 BC) ordered the extralegal executions of 3000 supporters of Gaius Gracchus |
| 5589 | Society | People | 125BC | Antiochus of Ascalon; Middle Platonism |
| 5584 | Society | Assassination | 132BC | Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio: murdered his cousin, Tiberius Gracchus; himself murdered by supporters of the Gracchi |
| 5532 | Society | Assassination | 133BC | Murder of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus: sought agrarian reforms to transfer wealth from the wealthy, patricians and otherwise, to the poor. |
| 5526 | Society | Politics | 133BC | Optimates and Populares solidify their positions in respect of the Gracchi |
| 5486 | Society | Prodigy | 135BC | Talking cow, hooting owl; portents of defeat of Roman army |
| 5512 | Society | People | 135BC | Mithridates VI of Pontus |
| 73 | Society | Massacre | 135BC | Eunus and the First Servile War against Rome |
| 2357 | Society | Prodigy | 137BC Aug. | Animal prodigies observed in Rome |
| 2758 | Society | Mass sickness | 144BC | Pestilence in Babylon |
| 35 | Society | Sack or Destruction of City | 146BC | Destruction of Corinth |
| 23 | Society | Sack or Destruction of City | 146BC (Spr.) | Third Punic War, Siege of Carthage |
| 5647 | Society | Sack or Destruction of City | 146BC | Complete destruction of the city of Carthage by Scipio Aemilianus; Rome flooded with slaves |
| 5478 | Society | Human Prodigies | 147BC | A boy with three feet and one hand is born |
| 5491 | Society | People | 157BC | Gaius Marius, general, consul, uncle and role model of Julius Caesar |
| 5591 | Society | People | 160BC | Mnesarchus of Athens; leader of the Stoic school |
| 5345 | Society | War | 166BC | The Ligurian Gauls were destroyed |
| 5325 | Society | Massacre | 168BC Jun. 22 | Battle of Pydna: Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum against Perseus of Macedon |
| 5324 | Society | War | 171BC | Third Macedonian War between Rome and King Perseus of Macedon |
| 5553 | Society | Laws and legal system | 184BC | Lex Porcia III: severe penalties for magistrates who refuse to grant provocatio (appeal) |
| 5548 | Society | People | 185BC | Scipio Aemilianus: destroyer of Carthage, opponent of the Gracchi, murder victim |
| 435 | Society | Mass Migration | 186BC | Gauls who had crossed the Alps into Italy were expelled without a battle |
| 434 | Society | Human Prodigies | 186BC | A hermaphrodite about twelve years old was discovered, and by order of the soothsayers was put to death |
| 5573 | Society | War | 190BC | Battle of Magnesia: Rome vs Antiochus III |
| 5560 | Society | War | 191BC | Battle of Thermopylae: Rome vs. Antiochus III |
| 5577 | Society | Laws and legal system | 191BC | Lex Acilia de intercalando: authorized the pontifices to decree an intercalary period in order to prevent seasonal drift |
| 5315 | Society | War | 192BC | Roman-Seleucid War, Treaty of Apamea |
| 5558 | Society | Laws and legal system | 195BC | Repeal of Lex Oppia after mass demonstrations by the women of Rome |
| 5552 | Society | Laws and legal system | 195BC | Lex Porcia II: right of Roman citizen to appeal a sentence of flogging |
| 14 | Society | War | 196BC | Second Macedonian War |
| 5551 | Society | Laws and legal system | 199BC | Lex Porcia I: extended the right to provocatio (appeal) to locations outside of Rome |
| 5316 | Society | War | 200BC | Second Macedonian War fought between Philip V of Macedon, and Rome |
| 5301 | Society | Science | 200BC | Eratosthenes of Cyrene accurately calculates the circumference of the Earth |
| 13 | Society | Massacre | 202BC Oct. 19 | Battle of Zama, Scipio Africanus vs Hannibal |
| 5319 | Society | People | 204BC | Reign of Ptolemy V Epiphanes; Rosetta Stone |
| 5580 | Society | War | 207BC | Battle of Metaurus: Gaius Claudius Nero (consul 207 BC) & Marcus Livius Salinator defeated (and killed) Hasdrubal |
| 11 | Society | Massacre | 214BC | Siege of Syracuse, Death of Archimedes |
| 10 | Society | War | 214BC | First Macedonian War |
| 5619 | Society | Expiation | 215BC | Q. Fabius Pictor was sent to consult the oracle of Delphi |
| 5254 | Society | Massacre | 215BC | Roman consul, Postumius Albinus, beheaded; entire army destroyed by the Boii |
| 5618 | Society | Expiation | 215BC | Vestals Floronia and Opimia convicted of unchastity; one buried alive at the Colline Gate, other suicide |
| 5620 | Society | Expiation | 215BC | A Gaulish man and a Gaulish woman and a Greek man and a Greek woman were buried alive under the Forum Boarium |
| 5557 | Society | Laws and legal system | 215BC | Lex Oppia: law against luxury and extravagance also oppression of women's rights to property and dress |
| 7 | Society | Massacre | 216BC Aug. 2 | Battle of Cannae, Roman army massacred by Hannibal |
| 5579 | Society | People | 216BC | Lucius Aemilius Paullus (consul 219, 216 BC):shared command with Varro at the Battle of Cannae, killed in battle |
| 1393 | Society | Massacre | 217BC Jun. 24 | Battle of Lake Trasimene; Hannibal massacres Roman army |
| 5574 | Society | War | 217BC Jun. 22 | Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt vs Antiochus III; one of the largest battles of the ancient world |
| 5251 | Society | Massacre | 218BC Dec. 21 | Battle of the Trebia, Roman army massacred by Hannibal |
| 5575 | Society | War | 218BC | Hannibal crosses the Alps into Italy: Battle of Ticinus |
| 6 | Society | War | 218BC | Second Punic War |
| 5317 | Society | People | 222BC | Reign of Antiochus III the Great |
| 5583 | Society | People | 230BC | Aemilia Tertia AKA Aemilia Paulla; grandmother of the Gracchi, great grandmother of Fulvia |
| 5576 | Society | People | 233BC | Manius Acilius Glabrio (consul 191 BC): defeated Antiochus III at the Battle of Thermopylae |
| 5536 | Society | People | 234BC | Cato the Elder |
| 5561 | Society | People | 236BC | Scipio Africanus: never lost a battle; first Roman general to expand Roman territories outside Italy; hated by Cato the Elder; grandfather of the Gracchi |
| 5318 | Society | People | 238BC | Philip V of Macedon |
| 5578 | Society | People | 247BC | Hannibal: one of the greatest military commanders in history |
| 507 | Society | Mass Death | 255BC Jul. 4 | Severe storm, destruction of Roman Fleet with massive mortality |
| 5308 | Society | People | 262BC | Ptolemy IV Philopator, builder of largest human-powered vessel ever built, major antagonist of 3 Maccabees |
| 5 | Society | War | 264BC | First Punic War |
| 2848 | Society | Mass sickness | 266BC | Epidemic with many deaths in Babylon |
| 5581 | Society | People | 268BC | Marcus Claudius Marcellus, five times consul; Gallic War, Punic War, killed Viridomarus in single combat; responsible for death of Archimedes |
| 5225 | Society | People | 270BC | Quintus Fabius Pictor, earliest Roman historian |
| 5226 | Society | Laws and legal system | 272BC | Creation of the Hebrew Bible Primary History |
| 2846 | Society | Famine | 273BC | Famine in Babylon, people sold their children (for food?) |
| 5300 | Society | People | 276BC | Eratosthenes of Cyrene |
| 2901 | Society | Massacre | 277BC | Gallic army destroyed by furies and ghosts; Battle of Lysimachia |
| 5306 | Society | People | 278BC | Ptolemy III Euergetes, first known example of decrees published as bilingual inscriptions, invented leap years, builder of the Serapeum, expanded the Alexandrian library |
| 5246 | Society | Massacre | 279BC | Gallic invasion of Greece, Battle of Thermopylae |
| 2915 | Society | War | 280BC May | Pyrrhic War |
| 5582 | Society | People | 280BC | Fabius Maximus Cunctator: father of guerrilla warfare; five times consul, two times dictator |
| 5535 | Society | Laws and legal system | 287BC | Lex Hortensia final result of the long class struggle between patricians and plebeians |
| 5309 | Society | People | 289BC | Archimedes: mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer |
| 5264 | Society | Massacre | 291BC | Capture and colonization of Venusia by Romans |
| 5265 | Society | Massacre | 293BC | Battle of Aquilonia; Romans vs. Samnites |
| 5263 | Society | War | 298BC | Third Samnite War, peoples of Italy unite against Rome |
| 5266 | Society | Massacre | 298BC | Etruscans and Gauls invade Rome, Battle of Volterra |
| 5550 | Society | Laws and legal system | 299BC | Valerian law allowed a Roman citizen, condemned by a magistrate to death or scourging, the right of appeal to the people |
| 5303 | Society | People | 300BC | Aristo of Chios, stoic and companion of Zeno of Citium |
| 5267 | Society | Massacre | 305BC | Battle of Bovianum, end of second Samnite War, Rome acquires more territory |
| 5307 | Society | People | 310BC | Apollonius of Rhodes, author of the Argonautica, librarian at Alexandria, Homeric scholar |
| 5305 | Society | People | 310BC | Callimachus, catalogued the library at Alexandria |
| 5268 | Society | Massacre | 310BC | Battle of Lake Vadimo; Romans vs. Etruscans; Rome acquires more territory |
| 5304 | Society | People | 316BC | Arcesilaus, founder of the Middle Academy and Academic skepticism; opposed Stoics |
| 5269 | Society | War | 321BC | Battle of the Caudine Forks, humiliation of the Romans by Samnites |
| 5262 | Society | War | 326BC | Second Samnite War, Roman expansion |
| 1384 | Society | Mass Death | 331BC Oct. 1 | Battle of Arbela or Gaugamela, death of Darius, end of Persian Empire |
| 5217 | Society | Sack or Destruction of City | 332BC | Alexander's Siege of Tyre |
| 5216 | Society | Prodigy | 332BC | "Bloody bread", vision of Apollo leaving city during siege of Tyre |
| 2929 | Society | People | 333BC Mar. | Alexander solves the Gordian Knot |
| 5252 | Society | People | 334BC | Zeno of Citium, founder of Stoicism |
| 5631 | Society | Expiation | 337BC | Minucia, a Vestal, tried for unchastity; convicted and buried alive near the Colline Gate |
| 3 | Society | War | 340BC | Latin War, Battle of Vesuvius, duel of Titus Manlius, Devotio of Decius Mus |
| 5232 | Society | People | 341BC | Epicurus |
| 5261 | Society | War | 343BC | First Samnite War |
| 5215 | Society | People | 345BC | Timaeus of Tauromenium |
| 5297 | Society | War | 345BC | Romans capture Volscian town, Sora |
| 5296 | Society | War | 346BC | Second Defeat of Antium and destruction of Satricum |
| 5224 | Society | People | 350BC | Diocles of Peparethus, author of earliest known Roman history |
| 5292 | Society | Politics | 354BC | End of the early Latin Wars; Rome prevails |
| 5302 | Society | People | 356BC Jul. 20 | Alexander III of Macedon, the Great |
| 5290 | Society | War | 357BC | Privernum and Velitrae raid Roman territory; Gaius Marcius Rutilus defends successfully |
| 5291 | Society | War | 358BC | Renewal of treaty between Rome and the Latins; invasion by Gauls; C. Sulpicius Peticus appointed dictator, defeats Gauls |
| 5644 | Society | War | 359BC | War with Tarquinii, Falerii and Caere; 307 Romans sacrificed by the Tarquinienses |
| 5289 | Society | War | 360BC | Rome defeats coalition of Tiburtes and Gauls; Q. Servilius Ahala allegedly appointed dictator |
| 5260 | Society | People | 361BC | Titus Manlius Torquatus single combat with gigantic Gaul - David and Goliath type story |
| 5539 | Society | Mass sickness | 365BC | Deadly pestilence strikes Rome killing many important people including Camillus |
| 5534 | Society | Laws and legal system | 367BC | Lex Licinia Sextia passed to modify Roman patrician monopoly on power; abolish all forms of discrimination against the plebeians |
| 2820 | Society | Famine | 374BC | Famine so severe people "sold" (ate?) their children in Babylon |
| 5288 | Society | Politics | 375BC | Period of anarchy in Rome |
| 5285 | Society | War | 377BC | Defeat of Antium and destruction of Satricum |
| 5287 | Society | Prodigy | 377BC | Voice heard from temple of Mater Matuta during burning of Satricum |
| 5284 | Society | War | 378BC | Invasion of Volscii; revolt of plebs against patricians in Rome; Romans plunder Volscii territory |
| 5207 | Society | Mass sickness | 379BC | "Supernatural disaster", turmoils and fears causing panic and discord in Carthage |
| 2685 | Society | Mass Death | 379BC | Violent plague killed many Carthiginians |
| 5283 | Society | War | 380BC | Dictatorship of T. Quinctius Cincinnatus; capture of Praeneste and nine towns |
| 5281 | Society | Massacre | 381BC | M. Furius Camillus' victory at Satricum |
| 5282 | Society | War | 381BC | Roman annexation of Tusculum |
| 5279 | Society | War | 382BC | War between Rome and Praeneste |
| 2816 | Society | Mass Death | 383BC Mar. | Pestilence in Babylon |
| 5280 | Society | Mass sickness | 383BC | Pestilence in Rome |
| 5278 | Society | Assassination | 384BC | Marcus Manlius Capitolinus martyred - thrown off the Tarpeian Rock - for trying to help the poor |
| 5277 | Society | War | 386BC | Defection of the Latins from Rome, Volscians help the Antiates invade the Pomptine territory |
| 5643 | Society | War | 389BC | Etruscans, the Volsci and the Aequi unite against Rome: Marcus Furius Camillus dictator |
| 5247 | Society | War | 390BC | Gallic invasion of Rome, Battle of the Allia |