The Founding of the Principate: 27 BC to AD 17

• 27 BC to AD 14: Augustus
  • 70-19 BC: Vergil
  • 65-8 BC: Horace
  • 43 BC to AD 18: Ovid
  • 59 BC to AD 17: Livy

The Pax Romana: AD 17 to 180

• The Julio-Claudian Dynasty
  • 17-37: Tiberius
  • 37-41: Gaius (Caligula)
  • 41-54: Claudius
  • 54-68: Nero
  • 69: Year of the Four Emperors
• The Flavian Dynasty
  • 69-79: Vespasian
  • 79-81: Titus
  • 81-96: Domitian
• The Five Good Emperors
  • 96-98: Nerva
  • 98-117: Trajan
  • 117-138: Hadrian
  • 138-161: Antoninus Pius
  • 161-180: Marcus Aurelius
• Roman Culture
  • Literature
  • History
  • Archetecture
  • Gladiators

The Crisis of the Third Century: 180-284

• c. 250: Emperor Decius begins a period of persecution of ChristiansChristianity Chronology

Reforms of the Late Empire: 284-378

• 284-305: Diocletian
• 306-337: The Emperor ConstantineChristianity Chronology
  • 312: The Emperor Constantine converts to Christianity
  • The Edict of Milan grants legal rights to Christians
  • 325: The Council of Nicea
  • 330: Constantine declares Constantinople capital of a Christian Empire.
• 354-430: Saint Augustine of Hippo
• 361-363: Julian the Apostate
• 379-395: Theodosius
  • 378: Battle of Adrianople

Primary Sources

• Augustus: Deeds of the Divine Augustus
• Tacitus: Annals
• Virgil: Aeneid
• Ptolemy: The Solar System
• Strabo: Geography
• Acts of the Scillitan Martyrs
• Augustine: From: The City of God
• Epictetus: The Discourses
• Jerome: Letter to a Soldier
• Julian the Apostate: Letter to Arsacius

Secondary Sources