Early Republic (Rome; tml)

Highlights include:

• Contextual international events
• Politcal events
  • First secession of Plebs — Tribunate instituted (494)
  • Foedus Cassianum — Latin League formed (493)
  • Sp. Cassius executed for proposing land reform during consulship (485)
  • First dictatorship of Cincinnatus — saves Roman army (458)
  • Number of Plebeian tribunes increased to ten (457)
  • Decemvirs (451)
  • Twelve Tables (449)
  • Quaestors (447)
  • Censorship (443)
  • Work on Servian Wall begins (378)
  • Licinio-Sextian Laws (367)
  • Death of Camillus (365)
  • Renewed treaty with Carthage (348)
  • Campania incorporated into Roman state; Latin League dissolved (338)
  • First bronze coinage used in Rome (326)
  • Censorship of Ap. Claudius Caecus; Construction of Via Appia and Aqua Appia begins (312)
  • Plague hits Rome (293)
  • Third and final secession of plebs — plebiscites binding on all Romans (287)
  • First silver coins minted in Rome (269)
• People: L. Iunius Brutus (545-509), Tarquin the Proud (c. 534-495), P. Valerius Poplicola (c. 560-503), L. Quinctius Cincinnatus (c. 519-438), T. Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus (c. 505-430), Ap. Claudius the Decemvir (c. 510-449), M. Furius Camillus (c. 447-365), V. Maximus Corvus (c. 386-285), Ap. Claudius Caecus (c. 350-271), and L. Cornelius Scipio Scapula (c. 337-276).
• Military events
  • Incursions of Sabines, Aequi, and Volsci (c. 486-431)
  • Veiian Wars (first, 483-474; second, 445-425)
  • Samnite Wars (first, 343-341; second, 327-304; and third, 298-290) and key battles: Corvus destroys Satricum (347/6), Romans defeated by Samnites at Caudine Forks (321), Romans defeat Samnites at Bovianum (305), and Roman victory at Sentinum (295)
  • Pyrrhic War (280-275) (cf. the Battles of Heraclea (280), Asculum (279), and Beneventum (275) — not shown on timeline)
  • Romans secure Italian peninsula: the North (283) and the South (272, with surrender of Tarentum)