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69 BCE: Pompey defeats King Tigranes II and captures his capital city of Tigranakert.

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Rome burns Corinth

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Circa 272 BCE

The Death of Pyrrhus led to the surrender of his armies and Rome was finally able to regain almost the entirety of southern Italy.

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63 BCE: Pompey defeats the Saleucids and conquers Syria

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57 BCE: Caesar's legions are nearly defeated by the Nervii tribes, but they pull off a narrow victory at the Battle of the Sabis.

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In the years 326-290 BCE, The Romans were extremely successful in taking more territory for rivaling states. by 290 BCE, they had defeated their main rivals in the south, the  Samnites and their allies, the Gauls. By doing this they had taken nearly all the "sole" of the Italian continent. Threatened by this, the state of Epirus led by King Pyrrhus drove them out of nearly all of southern Italy, although suffering enormous losses.

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Starting in 200 BCE, the Roman Empire took control of Spain, Greece, Sicily, Egypt and Macedonia. Fought ruthlessly and wrung out all the wealth from the nations they captured.

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56 BCE: First naval battle of the Atlantic Ocean. The Roman navy fights against the Veneti Gauls and wins.

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55-54 BCE: Caesar invades Britain twice. During the first invasion, he achieves little. However, he brings a significantly larger force in 54 BCE and effectively conquers Britain.

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Circa 340-338 BC

Up and until this time Rome was the head of an alliance with other City-states in the area called the Latin League of cities. When this league rebelled in 340 BC Rome decided to conquer them all and did so in 338 BC, becoming the sole rulers of all surrounding city-states.

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Rome conquers all of Italy starting in 390 BCE

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Rome conquers all of Italy starting in 390 BCE

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Supported by the Latin league. Defeats the last Greek city state in Rome in 275 BCE.

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52 BCE: Caesar besieges Vercingetorix at Alesia and conquers the Gallic tribes of Gaul

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Largo di Torre Argentina, Largo di Torre Argentina, Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome, Italy

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Largo di Torre Argentina, Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome, Italy

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Largo di Torre Argentina, Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome, Italy

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Assassination of Caesar,
stabbed to death by a group of senators on 15 March 44 BC

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From 149-146 B.C., Rome also spread its influence east, defeating King Philip V of Macedonia in the Macedonian Wars and turning his kingdom into another Roman province

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First Roman port

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49 BCE: Siege of Massilia by Casesar

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Etruscan Coast, Province of Livorno, Italy

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Etruscan Coast, Province of Livorno, Italy

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Etruscan Coast, Province of Livorno, Italy

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the time period around 510 BC marks a major point in the expansion of the Romans before the time of Caesar. The Etruscans were the first main rivals to the Romans, and after they were conquered, Rome became a republic.

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In the Third Punic War (149–146 B.C.), the Romans captured and destroyed the city of Carthage and sold its surviving inhabitants into slavery, making a section of northern Africa a Roman province.

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First Roman colony. Became a rich city.

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Circa. 753 BCE
This was when Rome was founded my Romulus, supposedly descendant of a man displaced by the destruction of Troy.  For  many years Rome would struggle to gain territory, as it was bullied by other states such as the Etruscans.

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Palatine Hill, Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome, Italy

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Palatine Hill, Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome, Italy

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Palatine Hill, Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome, Italy

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753 BCE: According to legend, Romulus began a settlement on Palatine Hill and fortified it.