Events
Displaying events 601 - 900 of 1136 in total
| ID | Category | Subcategory | Date | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2907 | Geology | Volcanic Eruption | 350BC | Volcanic eruption, earthquakes and tsunami on the island of Pithecussae |
| 2408 | Geology | Earthquake | 350BC | Earthquake at Prieni, Asia Minor; city totally destroyed |
| 2905 | Geology | Earthquake | 350BC | First recorded Persian earthquake; numerous cities, 2000 villages destroyed |
| 5218 | Geology | Earthquake | 325BC Nov. | Earthquake associated with tsunami that destroyed much of Alexander's fleet in India |
| 2708 | Geology | Tsunami | 325BC Nov. | Tsunami destroys much of Alexander's fleet in India |
| 2716 | Geology | Earthquake | 303BC | Earthquakes in Ionia recorded on Parian marble, Greece |
| 2898 | Geology | Earthquake | 287BC | Lysimachia destroyed by earthquake killing many residents |
| 2893 | Geology | Earthquake | 279BC (Win.) | Earthquake during Gallic invasion of Greece; thunderbolts and rocks fall from Parnassus |
| 2719 | Geology | Earthquake | 252BC Feb. 19 | Earthquake followed by hailstorm in Babylon |
| 2916 | Geology | Volcanic Eruption | 226BC | Eruption of Methana volcano, Greece |
| 2897 | Geology | Earthquake | 226BC | Major Rhodes earthquake causes colossus to collapse, three meters uplift |
| 1321 | Geology | River/Water Table Anomalies | 223BC | A river in Picenum the color of blood |
| 519 | Geology | Volcanic Eruption | 217BC | Vesuvius thundered, hurling flames and rock |
| 1394 | Geology | Earthquake | 217BC | Fifty-seven earthquakes in the year of the Battle of Lake Trasimene; cities overthrown, rivers diverted, cliffs torn away |
| 515 | Geology | Earthquake | 217BC | The Alps did not keep their place, and the Apennines were never still day or night among their vast gorges |
| 509 | Geology | Landslide | 217BC | Mount Garganus, collapsing with tottering summit, overset its forests |
| 514 | Geology | River/Water Table Anomalies | 217BC | River Allia flooding |
| 1326 | Geology | Earthquake | 217BC Jun. 24 | Mountains cleft asunder, rivers blocked by earthquake during Battle of Lake Trasimene |
| 5320 | Geology | Volcanic Eruption | 204BC | Possible eruption of Vesuvius |
| 654 | Geology | Sinkhole | 203BC | Sinking earth at Arpinum made huge depression |
| 5256 | Geology | Earthquake | 198BC | Chalcis-on-Belus in northern Syria swallowed by earthquake |
| 2903 | Geology | Volcanic Eruption | 198BC | Emergence of the island Hiera; the whole sea boiled and blazed |
| 5258 | Geology | River/Water Table Anomalies | 198BC | Fountains of Arethusa in Chalcis stopped and gushed up elsewhere |
| 5257 | Geology | Earthquake | 198BC | Sidon extensively damaged by earthquake; nearly two-thirds "engulfed" |
| 5259 | Geology | Volcanic Eruption | 198BC | Chasm opened in Lelantine Plain, Euboea, erupting a river of fiery lava |
| 5321 | Geology | Volcanic Eruption | 190BC | Possible eruption of Vesuvius |
| 5322 | Geology | Volcanic Eruption | 188BC | Possible eruption of Vesuvius |
| 5323 | Geology | Volcanic Eruption | 186BC | Possible eruption of Vesuvius |
| 2747 | Geology | Earthquake | 171BC | Earthquake in Babylon |
| 5328 | Geology | River/Water Table Anomalies | 168BC | At Calatia in public land for three days and two nights blood flowed |
| 5342 | Geology | River/Water Table Anomalies | 166BC | Water poured from foot of Equestrian statue; on the Quirinal hill blood drenched the earth |
| 2923 | Geology | Tsunami | 144BC | Soldiers of Tryphon are drowned by a rogue wave; possible undersea landslide |
| 2020 | Geology | Volcanic Eruption | 140BC | Eruption of Mount Etna associated with fall of objects from the sky |
| 5064 | Geology | Earthquake | 140BC | Earthquake Palestine |
| 5485 | Geology | River/Water Table Anomalies | 137BC | The Fucine lake overflowed; red water emerged from the ground |
| 2355 | Geology | Volcanic Eruption | 135BC | Eruption of Mount Etna: 'greater fires than normal' |
| 2356 | Geology | Outgassing | 126BC | Fire and gases erupting from the sea off northern Sicily; many fish killed, people sickened, killed |
| 1424 | Geology | Volcanic Eruption | 126BC | Eruption of Etna; island emerges burning with violent blast |
| 2910 | Geology | Other | 120BC | The Cymbrian Flood; Jutland penninsula |
| 2786 | Geology | River/Water Table Anomalies | 112BC | Euphrates river turns red |
| 2796 | Geology | Earthquake | 94BC Jul. | Earthquake in Babylon |
| 5500 | Geology | Earthquake | 91BC | Earthquake at Regium; part of the city and walls destroyed |
| 5499 | Geology | Outgassing | 91BC | Fire erupted from the earth at Aeneria (Ischia) |
| 1428 | Geology | Volcanic Eruption | 91BC | Islands burned several days, sea burned during the Social War |
| 2917 | Geology | Earthquake | 89BC | Earthquake at Apamea |
| 5503 | Geology | River/Water Table Anomalies | 89BC | Appearance of new lakes, disappearance of rivers and springs in Asia Minor |
| 2902 | Geology | Earthquake | 69BC | Earthquake in Syria; a hundred and seventy thousand people, and several cities, were destroyed |
| 1422 | Geology | Other | 67BC | Island appeared among the Cyclades |
| 1443 | Geology | Earthquake | 63BC | Earthquakes mentioned by Cicero, probably in Italy |
| 718 | Geology | Earthquake | 56BC | Temple of Juno turns from east to north in association with earthquake |
| 1465 | Geology | Earthquake | 49BC | "Bellowing" earthquakes in Rome |
| 2925 | Geology | Earthquake | 31BC Sep. | Earthquake kills ten to thirty thousand men and brings destruction upon cattle |
| 2233 | Geology | Earthquake | 19AD | An earthquake killed more than 100,000 people |
| 5066 | Geology | Earthquake | 33AD | Earthquake Palestine |
| 4166 | Geology | Earthquake | 51AD | Earthquake in Apamea |
| 4524 | Geology | Earthquake | 60AD | Cities are destroyed by an earthquake during visit of a comet |
| 4530 | Geology | Earthquake | 60AD | Priests experience an earthquake during sacred ministrations |
| 4521 | Geology | Earthquake | 67AD (Win.) | Amazing concussions and bellowings of the earth |
| 4553 | Geology | Earthquake | 105AD | Four cities of Asia and two of Greece overthrown by an earthquake |
| 4555 | Geology | Earthquake | 110AD | Earthquake in Galatia |
| 5067 | Geology | Earthquake | 112AD | Earthquake Palestine |
| 4556 | Geology | Earthquake | 113AD | Jerome's Antioch earthquake |
| 4523 | Geology | Earthquake | 117AD Nov. 10 | Earthquake during Hadrian's reign |
| 2200 | Geology | Earthquake | 128AD | Nicopolis and Caesarea are ruined by an earthquake |
| 2262 | Geology | Earthquake | 178AD | Smyrna is destroyed by an earthquake |
| 4518 | Geology | Earthquake | 331AD | A very severe earthquake in Salamis/Cyprus kills a considerabe number |
| 90 | Geology | Earthquake | 335AD | Earthquake in Cyprus, many places collaps |
| 98 | Geology | Earthquake | 344AD | Earthquake in Neocaesarea |
| 105 | Geology | Earthquake | 348AD | Earthquake in Beirut |
| 620 | Geology | Earthquake | 358AD (Sum.) | Terrible earthquakes take place in Macedonia, Asia Minor, and Pontus, overthrowing mountains |
| 285 | Geology | Earthquake | 362AD Dec. 2 | Nicomedia and Nicaea destroyed by an Earthquake |
| 506 | Geology | Earthquake | 375AD Nov. 19 | Many cities in Greece severely shaken by an earthquake |
| 4942 | Geology | Sinkhole | 400AD | Earth is opening up and sinkholes swallow up inhabitants |
| 4939 | Geology | Earthquake | 400AD | Grievous earthquakes overturning houses and entire cities from their foundations |
| 5071 | Geology | Earthquake | 419AD | Earthquake Palestine |
| 5069 | Geology | Earthquake | 502AD | Earthquake Palestine |
| 2892 | Geology | Landslide | 563AD | A landslide causing a tsunami, 8 meters high, wipes out the old city of Geneva |
| 4257 | Geology | Other | 599AD | Fish are killed by boiling lake water in Lake of Thun |
| 5073 | Geology | Earthquake | 660AD | Earthquake Palestine |
| 5072 | Geology | Earthquake | 749AD | Earthquake Palestine |
| 611 | Geology | Earthquake | 814AD | The palace at Aix-la-Chapelle frequently trembles |
| 4913 | Geology | Earthquake | 876AD | Earthquake in Byzantium, many towns destroyed |
| 5081 | Geology | Earthquake | 991AD | Earthquake Palestine |
| 4919 | Geology | Earthquake | 1000AD Mar. 29 | Severe earthquake all over the world |
| 5074 | Geology | Earthquake | 1068AD | Earthquake Palestine |
| 5080 | Geology | Earthquake | 1202AD | Earthquake Palestine |
| 5076 | Geology | Earthquake | 1212AD | Earthquake Palestine |
| 5075 | Geology | Earthquake | 1293AD | Earthquake Palestine |
| 5077 | Geology | Earthquake | 1293AD | Earthquake Palestine |
| 5082 | Geology | Earthquake | 1312AD | Earthquake in Palestine |
| 5078 | Geology | Earthquake | 1458AD | Earthquake Palestine |
| 5079 | Geology | Earthquake | 1588AD | Earthquake Palestine |
| 5242 | Other | Other | 2100BC | Epic of Gilgamesh stories composed |
| 4528 | Other | Other | 60AD | A massive, heavy gate opens all by itself |
| 5170 | Society | Mass Death | 2300BC | Adverse Climate Changes in Egypt, dynasty collapse, severe famine, cannibalism |
| 5172 | Society | Mass Migration | 2300BC | Exodus event? |
| 5416 | Society | Politics | 2214BC | Gutian dynasty of Sumer, destruction of Akkad |
| 5407 | Society | Politics | 1570BC | Kassites rule of Babylon |
| 5383 | Society | Economy | 1300BC | Urnfield Culture appears in Central Europe; grows out of Tumulus culture |
| 5358 | Society | War | 1274BC | Battle of Kadesh and subsequent peace treaty |
| 5200 | Society | Sack or Destruction of City | 1188BC | Fall of Troy |
| 5381 | Society | Mass Migration | 1180BC | Phrygians appear in historical record; migrate from southern Balkans to Anatolia upon collapse of Hittite empire |
| 5382 | Society | Mass Migration | 1180BC | Mushki appear in historical record, migrating from the West, following collapse of Late Bronze Age |
| 5404 | Society | People | 1114BC | Tiglath-Pileser I; made Assyria the leading power of the Middle East |
| 2885 | Society | Mass Death | 850BC | Olympic Games restored to end long period of war and pestilence |
| 5087 | Society | People | 776BC | Retrospective calculation of the First Olympiad used for dating purposes |
| 5223 | Society | People | 771BC Mar. 28 | Traditional Birth of Romulus, founder and King of Rome |
| 5636 | Society | War | 763BC | War with Fidenae and Veii under Romulus |
| 5234 | Society | People | 750BC | Homer |
| 5351 | Society | Science | 747BC | Beginning of Babylonian Chronicles; first step in development of ancient historiography |
| 5350 | Society | People | 747BC | Reign of Nabonassar, King of Babylon |
| 5352 | Society | Science | 747BC | Beginning of Babylonian Astronomical Diaries recording 21 years of instability of the orbit of Venus |
| 5090 | Society | Politics | 745BC | Tiglath-Pileser III siezes Assyrian throne |
| 5094 | Society | Politics | 739BC | Hiram II becomes King of Tyre |
| 5095 | Society | Mass Migration | 734BC | Syracuse Sicily founded |
| 5096 | Society | Mass Migration | 734BC | Naxus, Sicily founded |
| 5092 | Society | Sack or Destruction of City | 732BC | Deportation of Israelites Tiglath-Pileser III |
| 5089 | Society | Politics | 727BC | Babylon rebels against Assyria |
| 5114 | Society | War | 722BC | Sargon II usurps throne - 17 years of war and mass death |
| 5091 | Society | Sack or Destruction of City | 722BC | Deportation of Israelites - Shalmaneser V, Sargon II |
| 5220 | Society | People | 715BC | Reign of Numa Pompilius, second King of Rome |
| 689 | Society | Mass sickness | 707BC | Numa Pompilius, pestilence |
| 5124 | Society | Mass Migration | 706BC | Spartans found Tarentum |
| 5346 | Society | People | 705BC | Reign of Sennacherib, king of Assyria |
| 5347 | Society | War | 701BC | Assyrian Siege of Jerusalem; a calamity has come down from the Lord |
| 5348 | Society | War | 701BC | Siege of Lachish |
| 5126 | Society | Politics | 700BC | End of Villanovan, rise of Etruscan in Italy |
| 5528 | Society | Laws and legal system | 700BC | Vestal Virgins; state supported priestesses |
| 5310 | Society | People | 680BC | Archilochus: earliest known Greek author to compose almost entirely on the theme of his own emotions and experiences |
| 5219 | Society | People | 673BC | Reign of Tullus Hostilius, third King of Rome |
| 5637 | Society | War | 663BC | Second War with Fidenae and Veii, under Tullus Hostilius |
| 5338 | Society | Politics | 657BC | Expulsion of the Bacchiadae from Corinth |
| 5249 | Society | People | 642BC | Reign of Ancus Marcius, fourth King of Rome |
| 5270 | Society | War | 640BC | First Latin War; Rome against the Latins; people captured and made citizens of Rome |
| 5228 | Society | People | 624BC | Thales of Miletus philosopher and mathematician, one of the Seven Sages of Greece |
| 5250 | Society | People | 616BC | Reign of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, Tarquin the Elder, fifth King of Rome |
| 5191 | Society | Famine | 612BC | Famine in Babylon reported with lunar eclipse observation |
| 2881 | Society | War | 612BC | Fall of Nineveh, Assyrian Empire collapses |
| 5192 | Society | Famine | 610BC | Famine in Babylon reported with lunar eclipse observation |
| 5229 | Society | People | 610BC | Anaximander |
| 5271 | Society | War | 588BC | Second Latin War; Rome acquires more territory |
| 5230 | Society | People | 585BC | Anaximenes of Miletus |
| 2900 | Society | War | 580BC | Battle of the Sagra: Apparition of the Dioscuri |
| 5311 | Society | Assassination | 578BC | Assassination of Tarquinius by the sons of Ancus Marcius |
| 5312 | Society | People | 578BC | Reign of Servius Tullius, the Etruscan 'Mastarna', sixth King of Rome; building of defenses, division of Rome into districts, other reforms |
| 5638 | Society | War | 571BC Nov. 25 | War with Veii and the Etruscans, under Servius Tullius |
| 5231 | Society | People | 570BC | Xenophanes |
| 5213 | Society | People | 570BC | Pythagoras |
| 2882 | Society | War | 557BC May 19 | Solar eclipse, Cyrus the Great captures Larissa |
| 5194 | Society | War | 539BC Oct. | Fall of Babylon to Cyrus the Great |
| 5233 | Society | People | 535BC | Heraclitus of Ephesus |
| 5313 | Society | People | 534BC | Reign of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, seventh and last King of Rome |
| 5214 | Society | People | 522BC | Pindar |
| 5293 | Society | People | 519BC | Cincinnatus, patrician opponent of justice and equality under the law |
| 5235 | Society | People | 515BC | Parmenides of Elea |
| 5639 | Society | War | 509BC | War with Veii and Tarquinii, after the overthrow of the monarchy in 509 BC |
| 5624 | Society | War | 509BC | Horatius Cocles defends Rome at the Sublicius bridge against Etruscans, Lars Porsenna |
| 5314 | Society | Politics | 509BC | Expulsion of Tarquinius Superbus, Founding of Roman Republic; Consuls: Lucius Iunius Brutus and Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus |
| 5272 | Society | War | 508BC | Lars Porsena War between Clusium and Aricia; Rome acquires survivors as citizens |
| 5640 | Society | War | 508BC | War with Etruscan Clusium; siege of Rome |
| 5641 | Society | War | 505BC | War between Rome and the Sabines/Etruscans |
| 5273 | Society | War | 503BC | The Pometian revolt against Rome |
| 5622 | Society | Politics | 501BC | Titus Lartius first Roman dictator |
| 5274 | Society | War | 499BC | Battle of Lake Regillus; thirty cities revolt against Rome |
| 5693 | Society | Laws and legal system | 497BC Dec. | Temple of Saturn dedicated; first Saturnalia in Rome |
| 5627 | Society | War | 495BC | Rome defended against Volscians by army-of-debtors; soldiers allowed to plunder to relieve their poverty |
| 5537 | Society | Politics | 495BC | Conflict of the Orders develops; political struggle between the Plebeians (commoners) and Patricians (aristocrats) |
| 5626 | Society | Politics | 495BC | P. Servilius Priscus Structus passed edict for partial amelioration of debt slavery in order to levy an army |
| 5628 | Society | Politics | 495BC | Civil discord at Rome due to debt slavery and extreme poverty; plebs refuse military service |
| 5275 | Society | War | 495BC | Volscian invasion; Rome's plebs refuse to fight without reforms and debt relief |
| 5629 | Society | War | 494BC | Volscians, the Aequi, and the Sabines join forces against Rome; defense by debtor-army |
| 5623 | Society | Politics | 494BC | Agitation of impoverished plebs; Titus Lartius unsuccessfully advocated measures to relieve the plebs from the burdens of debt |
| 5540 | Society | Politics | 494BC Dec. | First Secession of the Plebs due to extreme debt and wealth/political inequality |
| 5276 | Society | Politics | 493BC | Foedus Cassianum, military alliance between the Latin cities with Rome |
| 5543 | Society | Politics | 493BC | Plebeian Council's authority recognized by Patricians (unwillingly) |
| 5197 | Society | War | 492BC | First Persian Invasion of Greece |
| 5633 | Society | Famine | 492BC | Famine due to war |
| 5625 | Society | Politics | 491BC | Gaius Marcius Coriolanus defects to the Volscii after enraging the patricians and plebeians |
| 5240 | Society | People | 490BC | Protagoras, first relativist |
| 5237 | Society | People | 490BC | Empedocles formulates 4 elements and 2 powers of the cosmos |
| 5236 | Society | People | 490BC | Zeno of Elea |
| 5195 | Society | Massacre | 490BC Sep. 12 | Battle of Marathon |
| 5621 | Society | Politics | 486BC | Spurius Cassius Viscellinus authored agrarian law; accused of pandering to the masses and seeking kingship; executed |
| 5630 | Society | Expiation | 485BC | Supernatural portents expiated by punishment of Oppia, a Vestal virgin who was convicted of unchastity |
| 5211 | Society | People | 484BC | Herodotus |
| 5694 | Society | Laws and legal system | 484BC Jul. | Temple of Castor and Pollux dedicated |
| 5642 | Society | War | 483BC | The Fabian war with Veii |
| 5615 | Society | Expiation | 483BC | Following a series of portents the vestal virgin Oppia/Opimia was found guilty of a breach of chastity; buried alive |
| 5238 | Society | People | 480BC | Leucippus |
| 5696 | Society | War | 480BC | Battle with Veii; consul killed |
| 5695 | Society | Laws and legal system | 480BC | Tribune attempts to introduce land reform bill |
| 5198 | Society | War | 480BC (Spr.) | Second Persian Invasion of Greece |
| 45 | Society | War | 480BC Sep. | Battle of Salamis between Persians and Greeks; Xerxes, Themistocles, |
| 48 | Society | War | 479BC Aug. | Battle of Plataea |
| 5645 | Society | War | 477BC | Battle of the Cremera; 306 men of the Fabii gens sacrificed by the Veientes. |
| 5697 | Society | Politics | 473BC | Political strife between the orders, tribune Cnaeus Genucius murdered |
| 5698 | Society | Laws and legal system | 471BC | Change in law of tribune elections to eliminate aristocratic manipulation |
| 5635 | Society | Prodigy | 470BC | Religious awe and fear of the gods owing to the occurrence of many prodigies and omens |
| 5212 | Society | People | 470BC | Socrates |
| 5632 | Society | Expiation | 470BC | Urbinia, a Vestal Virgin, tried and executed for unchastity |
| 5634 | Society | Mass sickness | 470BC | Pestilence attacked pregnant women killing both mothers and infants |
| 5294 | Society | People | 462BC | Gaius Terentilius Harsa, plebeian tribune and advocate of formal law code for all |
| 5699 | Society | Mass sickness | 462BC | Epidemic in Rome; both consuls among the victims |
| 5700 | Society | Laws and legal system | 460BC | Riots in Rome over constitutional reforms, abuses of the aristocracy; exile of Caeso Quinctius |
| 5239 | Society | People | 460BC | Democritus, philosopher |
| 5714 | Society | Politics | 458BC | Census at Rome |
| 5715 | Society | Laws and legal system | 455BC | Lex Icilia distributes illegally held land on the Aventine to plebeians |
| 5716 | Society | Laws and legal system | 451BC | Publication of the first ten of the Twelve Tables of law after agitation by plebeians |
| 5541 | Society | Politics | 450BC | Second Secession of the Plebs due to abuse of power by the decemviri; demanded restoration of plebeian tribune power and right of appeal |
| 5718 | Society | Politics | 450BC | Illegal seizure of power by Decemvirs leads to reforms |
| 5717 | Society | Politics | 449BC | Kidnapping and death of Verginia and overthrow of the decemviri |
| 47 | Society | People | 449BC | Herodotus Writes The Histories |
| 5538 | Society | People | 446BC | Marcus Furius Camillus: longest-reigning Roman dictator until Sulla and Caesar; passed Lex Licinia under pressure |
| 5542 | Society | Politics | 445BC | Third Secession of the Plebs demanding rights to consulship and marriage between patricians and plebeians: Lex de conubio patrum et plebis |
| 66 | Society | People | 440BC | Heraclitus, Early Stoicism |
| 5295 | Society | People | 439BC | Spurius Maelius, advocate for the people, falsely accused and assassinated by Gaius Servilius Ahala |
| 1106 | Society | Famine | 439BC | Famine in early Rome, Cincinnatus made dictator, Spurius Maelius murdered for trying to help the poor |
| 5719 | Society | Politics | 437BC | King of Veii executes Roman envoys; Aulus Cornelius Cossus kills him in single combat |
| 5720 | Society | Mass sickness | 435BC | Epidemic in Rome during which Latins attack |
| 2852 | Society | Mass Death | 430BC (Sum.) | Plague of Athens 1st outbreak |
| 5241 | Society | People | 430BC | Xenophon |
| 2346 | Society | Mass Death | 428BC (Spr.) | Plague of Athens 2nd outbreak |
| 5248 | Society | People | 428BC | Plato |
| 2655 | Society | Mass Death | 426BC (Win.) | Plague of Athens 3rd outbreak |
| 5721 | Society | Politics | 425BC | Plebeian agitation prevents consular elections |
| 5722 | Society | Slave Rebellion | 417BC | Plot by slaves to seize Rome |
| 5723 | Society | Politics | 414BC | Turmoil over attempt to take annexed land from aristocrats and give to the people |
| 5724 | Society | Politics | 412BC | Military Tribune murdered by his troops over his resistance to land reform |
| 5725 | Society | Mass sickness | 410BC | Pestilence and famine, social unrest over land reform |
| 5726 | Society | Politics | 408BC | First plebeian quaestors elected at Rome |
| 53 | Society | War | 405BC | Battle of Aegospotami, obliteration of Athenian navy, end of Peloponnesian War |
| 5729 | Society | Mass sickness | 400BC (Sum.) | Pestilential summer at Rome; deadly to man and beast; Sibylline Books consulted |
| 5727 | Society | Expiation | 399BC | First lectisternum held in Rome - banquest to appease the gods |
| 5730 | Society | Politics | 398BC | Tribunes elected are all patrician after augurs say pestilence due to plebeians in high office |
| 5205 | Society | War | 397BC | Siege of Syracuse by Carthaginians |
| 2899 | Society | Mass Death | 396BC (Sum.) | Carthaginian plague during war against Sicily |
| 5247 | Society | War | 390BC | Gallic invasion of Rome, Battle of the Allia |
| 5643 | Society | War | 389BC | Etruscans, the Volsci and the Aequi unite against Rome: Marcus Furius Camillus dictator |
| 5277 | Society | War | 386BC | Defection of the Latins from Rome, Volscians help the Antiates invade the Pomptine territory |
| 5278 | Society | Assassination | 384BC | Marcus Manlius Capitolinus martyred - thrown off the Tarpeian Rock - for trying to help the poor |
| 5280 | Society | Mass sickness | 383BC | Pestilence in Rome |
| 2816 | Society | Mass Death | 383BC Mar. | Pestilence in Babylon |
| 5279 | Society | War | 382BC | War between Rome and Praeneste |
| 5281 | Society | Massacre | 381BC | M. Furius Camillus' victory at Satricum |
| 5282 | Society | War | 381BC | Roman annexation of Tusculum |
| 5283 | Society | War | 380BC | Dictatorship of T. Quinctius Cincinnatus; capture of Praeneste and nine towns |
| 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 |
| 5284 | Society | War | 378BC | Invasion of Volscii; revolt of plebs against patricians in Rome; Romans plunder Volscii territory |
| 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 |
| 5288 | Society | Politics | 375BC | Period of anarchy in Rome |
| 2820 | Society | Famine | 374BC | Famine so severe people "sold" (ate?) their children in Babylon |
| 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 |
| 5539 | Society | Mass sickness | 365BC | Deadly pestilence strikes Rome killing many important people including Camillus |
| 5260 | Society | People | 361BC | Titus Manlius Torquatus single combat with gigantic Gaul - David and Goliath type story |
| 5289 | Society | War | 360BC | Rome defeats coalition of Tiburtes and Gauls; Q. Servilius Ahala allegedly appointed dictator |
| 5644 | Society | War | 359BC | War with Tarquinii, Falerii and Caere; 307 Romans sacrificed by the Tarquinienses |
| 5291 | Society | War | 358BC | Renewal of treaty between Rome and the Latins; invasion by Gauls; C. Sulpicius Peticus appointed dictator, defeats Gauls |
| 5290 | Society | War | 357BC | Privernum and Velitrae raid Roman territory; Gaius Marcius Rutilus defends successfully |
| 5302 | Society | People | 356BC Jul. 20 | Alexander III of Macedon, the Great |
| 5292 | Society | Politics | 354BC | End of the early Latin Wars; Rome prevails |
| 5224 | Society | People | 350BC | Diocles of Peparethus, author of earliest known Roman history |
| 5296 | Society | War | 346BC | Second Defeat of Antium and destruction of Satricum |
| 5215 | Society | People | 345BC | Timaeus of Tauromenium |
| 5297 | Society | War | 345BC | Romans capture Volscian town, Sora |
| 5261 | Society | War | 343BC | First Samnite War |
| 5232 | Society | People | 341BC | Epicurus |
| 3 | Society | War | 340BC | Latin War, Battle of Vesuvius, duel of Titus Manlius, Devotio of Decius Mus |
| 5631 | Society | Expiation | 337BC | Minucia, a Vestal, tried for unchastity; convicted and buried alive near the Colline Gate |
| 5252 | Society | People | 334BC | Zeno of Citium, founder of Stoicism |
| 2929 | Society | People | 333BC Mar. | Alexander solves the Gordian Knot |
| 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 |
| 1384 | Society | Mass Death | 331BC Oct. 1 | Battle of Arbela or Gaugamela, death of Darius, end of Persian Empire |
| 5262 | Society | War | 326BC | Second Samnite War, Roman expansion |
| 5269 | Society | War | 321BC | Battle of the Caudine Forks, humiliation of the Romans by Samnites |
| 5304 | Society | People | 316BC | Arcesilaus, founder of the Middle Academy and Academic skepticism; opposed Stoics |
| 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 |
| 5267 | Society | Massacre | 305BC | Battle of Bovianum, end of second Samnite War, Rome acquires more territory |
| 5303 | Society | People | 300BC | Aristo of Chios, stoic and companion of Zeno of Citium |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5265 | Society | Massacre | 293BC | Battle of Aquilonia; Romans vs. Samnites |
| 5264 | Society | Massacre | 291BC | Capture and colonization of Venusia by Romans |
| 5309 | Society | People | 289BC | Archimedes: mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer |
| 5535 | Society | Laws and legal system | 287BC | Lex Hortensia final result of the long class struggle between patricians and plebeians |
| 5582 | Society | People | 280BC | Fabius Maximus Cunctator: father of guerrilla warfare; five times consul, two times dictator |
| 2915 | Society | War | 280BC May | Pyrrhic War |
| 5246 | Society | Massacre | 279BC | Gallic invasion of Greece, Battle of Thermopylae |
| 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 |
| 2901 | Society | Massacre | 277BC | Gallic army destroyed by furies and ghosts; Battle of Lysimachia |
| 5300 | Society | People | 276BC | Eratosthenes of Cyrene |
| 2846 | Society | Famine | 273BC | Famine in Babylon, people sold their children (for food?) |
| 5226 | Society | Laws and legal system | 272BC | Creation of the Hebrew Bible Primary History |
| 5225 | Society | People | 270BC | Quintus Fabius Pictor, earliest Roman historian |
| 5581 | Society | People | 268BC | Marcus Claudius Marcellus, five times consul; Gallic War, Punic War, killed Viridomarus in single combat; responsible for death of Archimedes |