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Building upon the foundation laid by the Roman Republic, the empire became the largest and most powerful political and military entity in the world up to its time and expanded steadily until its fall, in the west, in 476.
Summary Brief Overview Next By 47 BCE Caesar had won the civil war against Pompei, and soon became dictator, planning a major reconstruction of republican government.
Timeline. 44 BCE: Caesar defeats Pompeians at Munda Renewed as dictator, then as dictator for life. Assassinated March 15. 41-33: Second Triumvirate among Mark Antony, Lepidus, Octavian Antony's Parthian campaigns. 33-30: Mark Antony—Octavian Civil War Octavian victorious at Actium, 30.
Oct 21, 2020 · Period. Roman. Your guide to the Roman empire: when it was formed, why it split and how it failed, plus its most colourful emperors. After almost half a millennia of the Roman republic came five centuries of empire – and some of the most famous and colourful rulers in history.
An animated map showing the growth of Rome over the years from its start as a Republic and transformation into an Empire. It then splits into the Eastern Byzantine Empire and the Western Roman Empire before the eventual fall of the West in 476 AD.
This is a timeline of Roman history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the Roman Kingdom and Republic and the Roman and Byzantine Empires. To read about the background of these events, see Ancient Rome and History of the Byzantine Empire . Following tradition, this timeline marks the deposition of ...
The Roman Empire began in 27 BCE when Augustus became the sole ruler of Rome. Augustus and his successors tried to maintain the imagery and language of the Roman Republic to justify and preserve their personal power.
