Events
Displaying events 601 - 900 of 1136 in total
| ID | Category | Subcategory | Date | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5473 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 1100BC | Latins: Indo-Europeans migrated to Italy after collapse of Bronze Age |
| 5471 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 550BC | Lepontic Language |
| 5238 | Society | People | 480BC | Leucippus |
| 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 |
| 5535 | Society | Laws and legal system | 287BC | Lex Hortensia final result of the long class struggle between patricians and plebeians |
| 5715 | Society | Laws and legal system | 455BC | Lex Icilia distributes illegally held land on the Aventine to plebeians |
| 5555 | Society | Laws and legal system | 95BC | Lex Licinia Mucia passed ejecting non-citizens from Rome or prosecuting 'false citizens'; triggered Social War |
| 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 |
| 5557 | Society | Laws and legal system | 215BC | Lex Oppia: law against luxury and extravagance also oppression of women's rights to property and dress |
| 5551 | Society | Laws and legal system | 199BC | Lex Porcia I: extended the right to provocatio (appeal) to locations outside of Rome |
| 5552 | Society | Laws and legal system | 195BC | Lex Porcia II: right of Roman citizen to appeal a sentence of flogging |
| 5553 | Society | Laws and legal system | 184BC | Lex Porcia III: severe penalties for magistrates who refuse to grant provocatio (appeal) |
| 5457 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 4350BC | Leyla-Tepe culture; S. Caucasus Azerbaijan; amphora burials |
| 2689 | Environment | Plasma Event | 368BC | Lightening and thunder from a clear sky at beginning of battle between Spartans, Arcadians and Argives |
| 433 | Environment | Plasma Event | 186BC | Lightning bolts, appearing in many places, had scorched the clothes of many persons by a slight blast of heat |
| 2265 | Environment | Unusual Fire | 188AD | Lightning destroyed the Capitol |
| 2321 | Environment | Unusual Weather | 338BC | Lightning, divine fire disrupts siege of Cydonia |
| 4167 | Society | Prodigy | 53BC | Lightning, monsters and death of politicians portend political changes |
| 5470 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 1000BC | Ligures: earliest Indo-European speakers of the European West; direct descendants of Cro-Magnon? |
| 5393 | Archeology | Epigraphic Evidence | 2500BC | Linear A writing system; Minoan language connected to Etruscan? |
| 5395 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 1450BC | Linear B: syllabic script used for writing Mycenaean Greek |
| 2799 | Environment | Insect Infestation | 91BC Feb. | Locusts in late winter in Babylon |
| 2776 | Environment | Insect Infestation | 124BC May | Locusts, large and numerous |
| 5680 | Society | Politics | 50BC | Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus (consul 50 BC); destroyed the temples of Isis and Serapis by Senate decree |
| 5579 | Society | People | 216BC | Lucius Aemilius Paullus (consul 219, 216 BC):shared command with Varro at the Battle of Cannae, killed in battle |
| 5713 | Society | Politics | 60BC | Lucius Afranius, consul 60 BC |
| 5692 | Society | Politics | 58BC | Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, consul 58 BC, father-in-law of Julius Caesar |
| 5708 | Society | Politics | 43BC | Lucius Cornelius Balbus minor; served under Julius Caesar; 43 BC quaestor to Asinius Pollio |
| 5516 | Society | Politics | 86BC | Lucius Cornelius Cinna: Domination of Cinna |
| 5669 | Society | Politics | 49BC | Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Crus, consul 49 BC, triggered civil war; fled Rome |
| 5707 | Society | Politics | 64BC | Lucius Julius Caesar, consul 64 BC; cousin and supporter of Julius Caesar; tried Gaius Rabirius |
| 5590 | Society | People | 118BC | Lucius Licinius Lucullus; fought Third Mithridatic War; gastronome, "Xerxes in a toga" |
| 5570 | Society | Politics | 121BC | Lucius Opimius (consul 121 BC) ordered the extralegal executions of 3000 supporters of Gaius Gracchus |
| 5524 | Society | War | 62BC Jan. | Lucius Sergius Catilina killed at the Battle of Pistoria |
| 2525 | Celestial | Lunar Eclipse | 747BC Feb. 6 | Lunar eclipse |
| 5083 | Celestial | Lunar Eclipse | 747BC Aug. 2 | Lunar eclipse |
| 5084 | Celestial | Lunar Eclipse | 746BC Jan. 26 | Lunar Eclipse |
| 5085 | Celestial | Lunar Eclipse | 746BC Jul. 22 | Lunar eclipse |
| 2608 | Celestial | Lunar Eclipse | 721BC Mar. 19 | Lunar eclipse |
| 2609 | Celestial | Lunar Eclipse | 719BC Mar. 8 | Lunar eclipse |
| 5086 | Celestial | Lunar Eclipse | 719BC Sep. 1 | Lunar eclipse |
| 2865 | Celestial | Lunar Eclipse | 631BC May 24 | Lunar eclipse |
| 2856 | Celestial | Lunar Eclipse | 612BC Nov. 5 | Lunar eclipse |
| 2610 | Celestial | Lunar Eclipse | 610BC Sep. 15 | Lunar eclipse |
| 2757 | Celestial | Lunar Eclipse | 150BC Jul. 2 | Lunar eclipse |
| 2866 | Celestial | Lunar Eclipse | 67BC Jan. 19 | Lunar eclipse |
| 4593 | Celestial | Lunar Eclipse | 125AD Apr. 5 | Lunar eclipse |
| 4594 | Celestial | Lunar Eclipse | 133AD May 6 | Lunar eclipse |
| 4595 | Celestial | Lunar Eclipse | 134AD Oct. 20 | Lunar eclipse |
| 4596 | Celestial | Lunar Eclipse | 136AD Mar. 5 | Lunar eclipse |
| 416 | Celestial | Lunar Eclipse | 734AD Jan. 22 | Lunar Eclipse |
| 424 | Celestial | Lunar Eclipse | 795AD Mar. 28 | Lunar Eclipse |
| 427 | Celestial | Lunar Eclipse | 806AD Sep. 2 | Lunar Eclipse |
| 494 | Celestial | Lunar Eclipse | 904AD | Lunar Eclipse |
| 2633 | Celestial | Lunar Eclipse | 502BC Nov. 19 | Lunar eclipse 20th year of Darius, analyzed by Ptolemy |
| 2632 | Celestial | Lunar Eclipse | 523BC Jul. 16 | Lunar eclipse 7th year of Cambyses analyzed by Ptolemy |
| 426 | Celestial | Lunar Eclipse | 802AD Dec. 19 | Lunar Eclipse at Dawn |
| 1271 | Celestial | Lunar Eclipse | 413BC Aug. 27 | Lunar eclipse caused Nicias to delay abandoning the siege of Syracuse leading to destruction of Athenian forces |
| 2912 | Celestial | Lunar Eclipse | 331BC Sep. 20 | Lunar eclipse eleven days before battle of Gaugamela |
| 2661 | Celestial | Lunar Eclipse | 425BC Oct. 9 | Lunar eclipse recorded by Aristophanes |
| 2619 | Celestial | Lunar Eclipse | 620BC Apr. 21 | Lunar eclipse recorded by Babylonians, analyzed by Ptolemy |
| 2636 | Celestial | Lunar Eclipse | 491BC Apr. 25 | Lunar eclipse, 31st year of Darius, Ptolemy |
| 3084 | Celestial | Lunar Eclipse | 4BC Mar. 13 | Lunar eclipse, death of Herod the Great |
| 2516 | Celestial | Lunar Eclipse | 714BC Oct. 24 | Lunar eclipse, Sargon II of Assyria |
| 610 | Celestial | Lunar Eclipse | 814AD | Lunar eclipses are frequent during the last years before Charlemagne's death |
| 5398 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 1300BC | Lusatian culture of Eastern Europe develops from preceding Trzciniec culture |
| 2898 | Geology | Earthquake | 287BC | Lysimachia destroyed by earthquake killing many residents |
| 5281 | Society | Massacre | 381BC | M. Furius Camillus' victory at Satricum |
| 2897 | Geology | Earthquake | 226BC | Major Rhodes earthquake causes colossus to collapse, three meters uplift |
| 5402 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 22000BC | Mal'ta-Buret' culture west of Lake Baikal similar to coeval cultures of Western and Eastern Europe |
| 2387 | Geology | Tsunami | 426BC Oct. | Malian Gulf tsunami during Peloponnesian War |
| 5576 | Society | People | 233BC | Manius Acilius Glabrio (consul 191 BC): defeated Antiochus III at the Battle of Thermopylae |
| 506 | Geology | Earthquake | 375AD Nov. 19 | Many cities in Greece severely shaken by an earthquake |
| 676 | Environment | Fall of Unusual Objects | 52BC | Many clods, stones, shards and blood went flying through the air |
| 2277 | Society | Sack or Destruction of City | 630AD | Many Northern Italian cities are destroyed and razed |
| 4259 | Celestial | Unspecified Prodigies | 595AD | Many signs are seen in the sky |
| 677 | Environment | Plasma Event | 52BC | Many thunderbolts in Rome |
| 1312 | Environment | Atmospheric Prodigies | 49BC | Many towers destroyed by thunderbolts in Italy during civil war |
| 1438 | Environment | Unusual Weather | 65BC | Many towers in Rome struck with lightning; melts statues and bronze tablets |
| 5679 | Society | Politics | 78BC | Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (consul 78 BC), turned against Sulla and became Popularist rebel and revolutionary |
| 5595 | Society | People | 100BC | Marcus Aemilius Scaurus (praetor 56 BC); massacres in Judea mentioned in the Dead Sea scrolls |
| 5612 | Society | Politics | 87BC | Marcus Antonius (consul 99 BC); executed by Marius and Cinna |
| 5704 | Society | Politics | 51BC | Marcus Claudius Marcellus, consul 51 BC, optimate; urged extreme measures against Caesar; had a senator of Comum scourged |
| 5581 | Society | People | 268BC | Marcus Claudius Marcellus, five times consul; Gallic War, Punic War, killed Viridomarus in single combat; responsible for death of Archimedes |
| 5538 | Society | People | 446BC | Marcus Furius Camillus: longest-reigning Roman dictator until Sulla and Caesar; passed Lex Licinia under pressure |
| 5544 | Society | War | 53BC | Marcus Licinius Crassus: wealthiest man in Roman history; patron of Julius Caesar; defeated and killed by Parthians |
| 5650 | Society | Politics | 91BC | Marcus Livius Drusus proposed land reform and giving Roman citizenship to all freemen of Italy; triggered Social War |
| 5278 | Society | Assassination | 384BC | Marcus Manlius Capitolinus martyred - thrown off the Tarpeian Rock - for trying to help the poor |
| 5609 | Society | Massacre | 82BC | Marcus Marius Gratidianus: popularist reformer and human sacrifice martyr during Sullan proscriptions |
| 5593 | Society | People | 116BC | Marcus Terentius Varro Reatinus; the most learned of the Romans; Varronian chronology |
| 5525 | Society | Politics | 63BC Jan. | Marcus Tullius Cicero takes up his consulship |
| 4256 | Society | Mass sickness | 599AD | Marseilles and other cities are devastated by plague |
| 2760 | Environment | Animal Mass Death | 137BC | Mass death of cattle in Babylon; unspecified cause but associated with comet observations |
| 5161 | Archeology | Mass Migration Evidence | 1650BC | Mass displacement of populations resulting from Theran eruption |
| 5508 | Society | Massacre | 88BC May | Massacre of Romans & Italici in Asia by Mithridates |
| 5435 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 3950BC | Maykop culture W. Caucasus between Black Sea and Caspian; ties to the Iranian plateau and to South Central Asia |
| 1483 | Society | Massacre | 68AD (Spr.) | Merciless terror excerted by the Zealots: "He who survived called them that were already dead happy" |
| 2739 | Celestial | Falling Fire | 198BC | Meteor falling to ground in Babylon |
| 1466 | Celestial | Meteor | 49BC | Meteor fire on and over Rome |
| 2792 | Celestial | Meteor or Meteorite | 106BC | Meteor followed by loud noise in the sky observed in Babylon |
| 2875 | Celestial | Falling Fire | 210BC Jul. | Meteor or fireball falls in association with a comet observed in Babylon |
| 650 | Celestial | Meteor or Meteorite | 204BC | Meteor shooting from east to west |
| 2735 | Celestial | Falling Fire | 211BC Jun. | Meteor shower observed in Babylon; meteor impact in China |
| 2829 | Celestial | Meteor or Meteorite | 344BC Feb. | Meteor shower, fireballs and meteors |
| 2855 | Celestial | Meteor or Meteorite | 327BC Jan. 14 | Meteor with a tail observed by Babylonians |
| 49 | Celestial | Comet | 466BC | Meteorite falls at Aegospotami while bright comet is passing; Halley |
| 5724 | Society | Politics | 412BC | Military Tribune murdered by his troops over his resistance to land reform |
| 5631 | Society | Expiation | 337BC | Minucia, a Vestal, tried for unchastity; convicted and buried alive near the Colline Gate |
| 5512 | Society | People | 135BC | Mithridates VI of Pontus |
| 5591 | Society | People | 160BC | Mnesarchus of Athens; leader of the Stoic school |
| 5329 | Celestial | Halo | 163BC | Moon surrounded by halo observed from Babylon |
| 1426 | Geology | Volcanic Eruption | 472BC | Mount Epopos shot forth fire, collapse of land, great noise |
| 2231 | Geology | Volcanic Eruption | 1226BC | Mount Etna erupts |
| 509 | Geology | Landslide | 217BC | Mount Garganus, collapsing with tottering summit, overset its forests |
| 1326 | Geology | Earthquake | 217BC Jun. 24 | Mountains cleft asunder, rivers blocked by earthquake during Battle of Lake Trasimene |
| 5594 | Society | People | 95BC | Mucia Tertia: wife of Gaius Marius minor, Pompeius Magnus, Marcus Aemilius Scaurus; mother of Sextus Pompeius |
| 513 | Celestial | Comet | 217BC | Multiple comets: bright hair of more than one comet... showed its baleful glare |
| 1398 | Geology | Earthquake | 426BC (Sum.) | Multiple earthquakes in Greece during Peloponnesian War |
| 5497 | Society | Prodigy | 94BC | Multiple prodigies recorded at Rome |
| 2814 | Environment | Unusual Weather | 384BC | Multiple tornados in Babylon |
| 5532 | Society | Assassination | 133BC | Murder of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus: sought agrarian reforms to transfer wealth from the wealthy, patricians and otherwise, to the poor. |
| 5420 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 10200BC | Mureybetian culture, Pre-Pottery Neolithic A, northern Syria; early agriculture, animal domestication |
| 5382 | Society | Mass Migration | 1180BC | Mushki appear in historical record, migrating from the West, following collapse of Late Bronze Age |
| 5355 | Archeology | Mass destruction of unknown origin | 1190BC | Mycenaean Greece perishes with the collapse of Bronze-Age culture in the eastern Mediterranean |
| 5418 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 12500BC | Natufian culture of the Eastern Mediterranean; domestication of dogs |
| 5096 | Society | Mass Migration | 734BC | Naxus, Sicily founded |
| 5464 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 7500BC | Neolithic subpluvial wet period begins; wet and rainy N. Africa for 2K years |
| 5419 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 8400BC | Nevalı Çori, Anatolia; temples and monumental sculpture; Einkorn wheat first domesticated; ceramic firing |
| 285 | Geology | Earthquake | 362AD Dec. 2 | Nicomedia and Nicaea destroyed by an Earthquake |
| 2200 | Geology | Earthquake | 128AD | Nicopolis and Caesarea are ruined by an earthquake |
| 689 | Society | Mass sickness | 707BC | Numa Pompilius, pestilence |
| 2811 | Celestial | Meteor or Meteorite | 419BC | Numerous fireballs over several months, possible overhead meteor explosion; observed in Babylon |
| 2885 | Society | Mass Death | 850BC | Olympic Games restored to end long period of war and pestilence |
| 5526 | Society | Politics | 133BC | Optimates and Populares solidify their positions in respect of the Gracchi |
| 5193 | Celestial | Tunguska-like event | 3123BC Jun. 29 | Overhead comet/asteroid explosion; Köfels’ Impact |
| 5626 | Society | Politics | 495BC | P. Servilius Priscus Structus passed edict for partial amelioration of debt slavery in order to levy an army |
| 5376 | Archeology | Comet/Asteroid Evidence | 10900BC | Palaeolithic extinctions and the Taurid Complex |
| 1474 | Environment | Plant Prodigies | 48BC Aug. 9 | Palm tree shoots up at the base of Caesar's statue in Tralles |
| 5235 | Society | People | 515BC | Parmenides of Elea |
| 335 | Environment | Flood | 525AD Apr. 22 | People drown in the great and sudden flood at Edessa |
| 5732 | Environment | Unusual Sounds | 48BC | Pergamum: noise of drums and cymbals spread throughout the city |
| 5288 | Society | Politics | 375BC | Period of anarchy in Rome |
| 4685 | Environment | Drought | 24BC | Perpetual droughts in Syria an Judea |
| 5725 | Society | Mass sickness | 410BC | Pestilence and famine, social unrest over land reform |
| 5634 | Society | Mass sickness | 470BC | Pestilence attacked pregnant women killing both mothers and infants |
| 4164 | Society | Mass Death | 50AD | Pestilence in a frightful winter prevents invasion of Armenia |
| 2816 | Society | Mass Death | 383BC Mar. | Pestilence in Babylon |
| 2758 | Society | Mass sickness | 144BC | Pestilence in Babylon |
| 2793 | Society | Mass sickness | 106BC | Pestilence in Babylon |
| 2790 | Society | Mass sickness | 108BC | Pestilence in Babylon affected humans and dogs |
| 2797 | Society | Mass sickness | 94BC Jul. | Pestilence in Babylon; many deaths |
| 5280 | Society | Mass sickness | 383BC | Pestilence in Rome |
| 4671 | Archeology | Epigraphic Evidence | 155AD | Pestilence in Yemen |
| 5729 | Society | Mass sickness | 400BC (Sum.) | Pestilential summer at Rome; deadly to man and beast; Sibylline Books consulted |
| 5318 | Society | People | 238BC | Philip V of Macedon |
| 2696 | Geology | Earthquake | 354BC | Phocian generals attempt to loot the temple at Delphi, earthquake occurs, terrifying everyone |
| 5381 | Society | Mass Migration | 1180BC | Phrygians appear in historical record; migrate from southern Balkans to Anatolia upon collapse of Hittite empire |
| 5214 | Society | People | 522BC | Pindar |
| 5462 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 3250BC | Piora Oscillation sudden cooling: volcanic eruption or a meteor or an asteroid impact event |
| 2852 | Society | Mass Death | 430BC (Sum.) | Plague of Athens 1st outbreak |
| 2346 | Society | Mass Death | 428BC (Spr.) | Plague of Athens 2nd outbreak |
| 2655 | Society | Mass Death | 426BC (Win.) | Plague of Athens 3rd outbreak |
| 69 | Archeology | Epidemic Mass Grave | 430BC | Plague of Athens thought to have been Typhoid |
| 121 | Society | Mass Death | 259AD | Plague of Cyprian |
| 4513 | Society | Mass sickness | 305AD | Plagues |
| 5248 | Society | People | 428BC | Plato |
| 5721 | Society | Politics | 425BC | Plebeian agitation prevents consular elections |
| 5543 | Society | Politics | 493BC | Plebeian Council's authority recognized by Patricians (unwillingly) |
| 5201 | Celestial | Comet | 1188BC | Pleiades-Arctic comet "trails out for a long distance" associated with the fall of Troy recorded in Roman texts |
| 5722 | Society | Slave Rebellion | 417BC | Plot by slaves to seize Rome |
| 5697 | Society | Politics | 473BC | Political strife between the orders, tribune Cnaeus Genucius murdered |
| 5566 | Society | Politics | 45BC | Porcia Catonis, daughter of Cato the Younger, marries Brutus the assassin |
| 1452 | Society | Prodigy | 53BC | Portents afflict Crassus and his army while crossing the Euphrates |
| 675 | Society | Prodigy | 52BC | Portents follow the decree of the Senate to tear down temples of Serapis and Isis |
| 1447 | Environment | Animal Prodigies | 54BC | Portents in Rome: owls, dogs, wolves |
| 5320 | Geology | Volcanic Eruption | 204BC | Possible eruption of Vesuvius |
| 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 |
| 1387 | Celestial | Tunguska-like event | 91BC | Possible Tunguska-like event or comet/asteroid impact in northern Italy |
| 5175 | Archeology | Mass destruction of unknown origin | 2300BC | Pre-Harappan civilization disappears from Indus region |
| 4530 | Geology | Earthquake | 60AD | Priests experience an earthquake during sacred ministrations |
| 5290 | Society | War | 357BC | Privernum and Velitrae raid Roman territory; Gaius Marcius Rutilus defends successfully |
| 1310 | Society | Massacre | 82BC | Proscriptions of Sulla |
| 5240 | Society | People | 490BC | Protagoras, first relativist |
| 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 |
| 5308 | Society | People | 262BC | Ptolemy IV Philopator, builder of largest human-powered vessel ever built, major antagonist of 3 Maccabees |
| 5716 | Society | Laws and legal system | 451BC | Publication of the first ten of the Twelve Tables of law after agitation by plebeians |
| 5712 | Society | Politics | 63BC Dec. 5 | Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura: executed by Cicero as a "Catilinarian Conspirator" |
| 5584 | Society | Assassination | 132BC | Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio: murdered his cousin, Tiberius Gracchus; himself murdered by supporters of the Gracchi |
| 5608 | Society | War | 40BC | Publius Ventidius Bassus; protege of Caesar; defeated Quintus Labienus and the Parthians |
| 2915 | Society | War | 280BC May | Pyrrhic War |
| 5213 | Society | People | 570BC | Pythagoras |
| 5619 | Society | Expiation | 215BC | Q. Fabius Pictor was sent to consult the oracle of Delphi |
| 5565 | Society | Politics | 49BC | Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Cornelianus Scipio Nasica: 'personally despicable... politically reactionary'; triggered war with Caesar |
| 5225 | Society | People | 270BC | Quintus Fabius Pictor, earliest Roman historian |
| 5710 | Society | Politics | 60BC | Quintus Metellus Celer, consul 60 BC; Gaius Asinius Pollio, dated the start of the Civil Wars to this year |
| 5610 | Society | War | 105BC | Quintus Servilius Caepio plunders the temples of Tolosa and then loses entire Roman army in Battle of Arausio |
| 2895 | Environment | Dust/Ash Veil | 88BC (Sum.) | Rain of ashes at Athens |
| 5477 | Celestial | Falling Fire | 140BC | Rain of fireballs associated with eruption of Etna |
| 5495 | Environment | Fall of Unusual Objects | 94BC | Rain of stones in central Italy |
| 5494 | Environment | Fall of Unusual Objects | 94BC | Rain of stones near Rome |
| 5339 | Environment | Fall of Unusual Objects | 166BC | Rained earth in Campania |
| 1314 | Environment | Atmospheric Prodigies | 461BC | Rained flesh that did not turn bad |
| 5498 | Environment | Fall of Unusual Objects | 91BC | Rained stones for seven days in central Italy |
| 5186 | Archeology | Comet/Asteroid Evidence | 2300BC | Rakshasos, falling meteoroids, associated with "terrible clamor" and sea level rise in Southern India |
| 5519 | Society | Politics | 83BC | Rebellion in Spain: Quintus Sertorius, popularist general |
| 1298 | Celestial | Halo | 90BC | Red halo around the sun observed from Rome |
| 5249 | Society | People | 642BC | Reign of Ancus Marcius, fourth King of Rome |
| 5317 | Society | People | 222BC | Reign of Antiochus III the Great |
| 5250 | Society | People | 616BC | Reign of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, Tarquin the Elder, fifth King of Rome |
| 5313 | Society | People | 534BC | Reign of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, seventh and last King of Rome |
| 5350 | Society | People | 747BC | Reign of Nabonassar, King of Babylon |
| 5220 | Society | People | 715BC | Reign of Numa Pompilius, second King of Rome |
| 5319 | Society | People | 204BC | Reign of Ptolemy V Epiphanes; Rosetta Stone |
| 5346 | Society | People | 705BC | Reign of Sennacherib, king of Assyria |
| 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 |
| 5219 | Society | People | 673BC | Reign of Tullus Hostilius, third King of Rome |
| 5635 | Society | Prodigy | 470BC | Religious awe and fear of the gods owing to the occurrence of many prodigies and omens |
| 5291 | Society | War | 358BC | Renewal of treaty between Rome and the Latins; invasion by Gauls; C. Sulpicius Peticus appointed dictator, defeats Gauls |
| 5558 | Society | Laws and legal system | 195BC | Repeal of Lex Oppia after mass demonstrations by the women of Rome |
| 5087 | Society | People | 776BC | Retrospective calculation of the First Olympiad used for dating purposes |
| 1440 | Society | Prodigy | 63BC | Revival of ancient augural rite; bad omens resulted |
| 5700 | Society | Laws and legal system | 460BC | Riots in Rome over constitutional reforms, abuses of the aristocracy; exile of Caeso Quinctius |
| 514 | Geology | River/Water Table Anomalies | 217BC | River Allia flooding |
| 5204 | Geology | River/Water Table Anomalies | 426BC Oct. | Rivers and springs stopped flowing for several days, land sinking and rising prior to Malian Gulf tsunami |
| 2645 | Celestial | Tunguska-like event | 480BC Sep. | Roaring sound in sky, great flame of light and dust cloud |
| 4943 | Environment | Hail | 400AD | Rock-sized hail up to eight pounds falls in many places |
| 5282 | Society | War | 381BC | Roman annexation of Tusculum |
| 5254 | Society | Massacre | 215BC | Roman consul, Postumius Albinus, beheaded; entire army destroyed by the Boii |
| 5504 | Society | War | 91BC (Spr.) | Roman Social War (91–88 BC) |
| 5315 | Society | War | 192BC | Roman-Seleucid War, Treaty of Apamea |
| 5297 | Society | War | 345BC | Romans capture Volscian town, Sora |
| 672 | Environment | Plasma Event | 56BC | Romans killed by thunderbolts |
| 5289 | Society | War | 360BC | Rome defeats coalition of Tiburtes and Gauls; Q. Servilius Ahala allegedly appointed dictator |
| 5627 | Society | War | 495BC | Rome defended against Volscians by army-of-debtors; soldiers allowed to plunder to relieve their poverty |
| 108 | Society | Famine | 412AD | Rome falls by intense famine |
| 659 | Environment | Animal Prodigies | 203BC | Roof-eating ravens, gnawing mice, locust infestation and a deformed colt |
| 94 | Society | Sack or Destruction of City | 410AD Aug. 24 | Sack of Rome |
| 329 | Society | Sack or Destruction of City | 546AD Dec. 17 | Sack of Rome by Totila |
| 5428 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 5025BC | Samara culture, middle Volga; Dnieper-Donets culture |
| 70 | Society | War | 732AD Oct. | Saracens fight two battles near Poitiers and River Berre against Charles Martel during their conquest of Gaul |
| 4764 | Society | War | 636AD | Saracens kill 150,000 of Emperor Heraclius' men |
| 5114 | Society | War | 722BC | Sargon II usurps throne - 17 years of war and mass death |
| 5605 | Society | Assassination | 100BC | Saturninus: popularist reformer proposes land reform using Tolosan gold; murdered by mob of aristocrats |
| 5548 | Society | People | 185BC | Scipio Aemilianus: destroyer of Carthage, opponent of the Gracchi, murder victim |
| 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 |
| 2680 | Geology | Tsunami | 373BC (Win.) | Sea rose to a vast height, a wave towering even higher drowned all the inhabitants and washed away the city of Helicê |
| 5658 | Society | Politics | 63BC Nov. 9 | Second Catilinarian oration by Cicero |
| 5296 | Society | War | 346BC | Second Defeat of Antium and destruction of Satricum |
| 5271 | Society | War | 588BC | Second Latin War; Rome acquires more territory |
| 14 | Society | War | 196BC | Second Macedonian War |
| 5316 | Society | War | 200BC | Second Macedonian War fought between Philip V of Macedon, and Rome |
| 5198 | Society | War | 480BC (Spr.) | Second Persian Invasion of Greece |
| 6 | Society | War | 218BC | Second Punic War |
| 5262 | Society | War | 326BC | Second Samnite War, Roman expansion |
| 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 |
| 74 | Society | Slave Rebellion | 104BC | Second Servile War; Gaius Marius |
| 5637 | Society | War | 663BC | Second War with Fidenae and Veii, under Tullus Hostilius |
| 5564 | Society | People | 104BC | Servilia Caepionis: mistress of Julius Caesar, mother of Brutus, half-sister of Cato the Younger |
| 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 |
| 5705 | Society | Politics | 51BC | Servius Sulpicius Rufus, consul 51 BC; opposed Caesar, later honored by Caesar |
| 5244 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 6850BC | Sesklo culture, Thessaly, Greece used advanced agriculture and made pottery |
| 5331 | Environment | Unusual Weather | 163BC | Severe cold and hail in Babylon |
| 5481 | Environment | Unusual Weather | 137BC (Win.) | Severe cold and hail in Babylon |
| 5299 | Environment | Unusual Weather | 248BC Jan. | Severe cold in Babylon |
| 2509 | Environment | Unusual Weather | 243BC | Severe cold in Babylon |
| 4920 | Environment | Drought | 1000AD | Severe drought in Western Europe |
| 4919 | Geology | Earthquake | 1000AD Mar. 29 | Severe earthquake all over the world |
| 2879 | Archeology | Earthquake Evidence | 228BC | Severe earthquake in central Greece |
| 4916 | Environment | Flood | 991AD | Severe flood and famine in Kievan Rus' |
| 4918 | Environment | Flood | 1000AD | Severe flood in Kievan Rus' |
| 4924 | Environment | Flood | 1012AD | Severe floods in Western Europe |
| 4912 | Environment | Strong Winds | 874AD | Severe storm in the Black Sea during Askold's siege of Constantinople |
| 507 | Society | Mass Death | 255BC Jul. 4 | Severe storm, destruction of Roman Fleet with massive mortality |
| 4915 | Environment | Strong Winds | 979AD (Sum.) | Severe thunderstorms and winds in Kievan Rus' |
| 5598 | Society | Politics | 35BC | Sextus Pompeius Magnus Pius: executed without trial by order of Antony via Marcus Titius |
| 655 | Celestial | Tunguska-like event | 204BC | Shooting stars at intervals; great meteor blazed; sky lighted up at night; crashing sound |
| 393 | Environment | Fall of Unusual Objects | 190BC | Shower of Earth from the sky |
| 653 | Environment | Rock Falls | 204BC | Shower of stones in association with meteors, crashing sounds; fall of Magna Mater |
| 431 | Environment | Fall of Unusual Objects | 186BC | Shower of stones in Picenum |
| 411 | Environment | Fall of Unusual Objects | 188BC | Shower of Stones on the Aventine in Rome |
| 5257 | Geology | Earthquake | 198BC | Sidon extensively damaged by earthquake; nearly two-thirds "engulfed" |
| 173 | Society | Sack or Destruction of City | 502AD | Siege of Amida, at least 85,000 killed |
| 5348 | Society | War | 701BC | Siege of Lachish |
| 5205 | Society | War | 397BC | Siege of Syracuse by Carthaginians |
| 11 | Society | Massacre | 214BC | Siege of Syracuse, Death of Archimedes |
| 1464 | Environment | Animal Prodigies | 49BC | Sighting of wolves and owls in Rome, animals bring forth creatures outside of their own species |
| 2285 | Celestial | Unspecified Prodigies | 740AD | Signs in the sun and the moon and in the stars appear before the death of Charles Martel |
| 654 | Geology | Sinkhole | 203BC | Sinking earth at Arpinum made huge depression |
| 5168 | Archeology | Mass destruction of unknown origin | 2300BC | Site Destruction and abandoment in southern and central Greece |
| 5164 | Archeology | Mass destruction of unknown origin | 2300BC | Site Destruction and abandonment in Anatolia (Troy incl.) |
| 5154 | Archeology | Earthquake Evidence | 2300BC | Site Destruction and abandonment in Mesopotamia/Iran |
| 2627 | Celestial | Unspecified Prodigies | 567BC Mar. 12 | Sky glowing red in the West observed from Babylon |
| 1313 | Environment | Fall of Unusual Objects | 114BC | Sky rained milk and blood in the consulship of Manius Acilius and Gaius Porcius |
| 2262 | Geology | Earthquake | 178AD | Smyrna is destroyed by an earthquake |
| 2774 | Environment | Unusual Weather | 125BC Nov. | Snow in Babylon; severe cold |
| 5212 | Society | People | 470BC | Socrates |
| 2360 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 478BC Feb. 17 | Solar eclipse |