Rome & the Mediterranean
100 BCE – 200 CE
The Roman world at its height — from the late Republic through the Pax Romana, when one power ringed the entire Mediterranean.
302 events · 2 eras
Key events
- Gallic War57 BCEwar (58–50 BCE) between the Roman Republic and Gaul
- Battle of Carrhae52 BCEancient battle between Roman Republic and Parthian Empire in 53 BCE near modern Harran, Turkey
- Battle of Alesia51 BCEdecisive Roman victory in which Rome secures the conquest of Gaul
- Battle of Pharsalus47 BCE48 BCE decisive battle of Caesar's Civil War
- Battle of Thapsus45 BCEbattle in Caesar's Civil War
- assassination of Julius Caesar43 BCEstabbing attack that caused the death of Julius Caesar (44 BCE)
- Battle of Philippi41 BCEbattle of the Roman civil war
- Battle of Actium30 BCE31 BCE decisive confrontation of the Final War of the Roman Republic
- Battle of the Teutoburg Forest9 CEbattle between a coalition of Germanic peoples and an Imperial Roman army, 9 BCE
- Council of Jerusalem50 CEfirst Christian synod (c. 48–50 AD)
- First Jewish-Roman War66 CEwar
- Bar Kokhba revolt132 CEJewish rebellion against Roman rule (132–136 CE)
Eras spanning this view
Roman Republic509 BCE – 27 BCERoman Empire27 BCE – 476 CE
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