HISTORY 201 - Empire Chronology Quiz

44 BCE

Assassination of Caesar

31 BCE

Battle of Actium

27 BCE - 68 CE

Julio-Claudian Dynasty

27 BCE - 14 CE

Augustus’s rule

27 BCE

First Settlement

23 BCE

Second Settlement

69 CE

Year of the Four Emperors

66 - 73 CE

First Jewish-Roman War

70 CE

Destruction of Temple in Jerusalem

69 - 96 CE

Flavian Dynasty

96 - 192 CE

Nerva-Antonine Dynasty

193 CE

Year of the Five Emperors

193 - 235 CE

Severan Dynasty

dynasty - Augustus

Julio-Claudian

dynasty - Tiberius

Julio-Claudian

dynasty - Caligula

Julio-Claudian

dynasty - Claudius

Julio-Claudian

dynasty - Nero

Julio-Claudian

dynasty - Vespasian

Flavian

dynasty - Titus

Flavian

dynasty - Domitian

Flavian

dynasty - Nerva

Nerva-Antonine

dynasty - Trajan

Nerva-Antonine

dynasty - Hadrian

Nerva-Antonine

dynasty - Antoninus Pius

Nerva-Antonine

dynasty - Lucius Verus

Nerva-Antonine

dynasty - Marcus Aurelius

Nerva-Antonine

dynasty - Commodus

Nerva-Antonine

dynasty - Septimius Severus

Severan

dynasty - Caracalla

Severan

event - Augustus

new legislation affecting marriage, childbearing, and adultery

event - Tiberius

moved to Capri

strikes against the Germans

event - Caligula

granted the senator full authority to make decisions

execution of Praetorian Prefect Macro

event - Claudius

revived the office of censor

annexation of Mauretania as a province

event - Nero

First Jewish Revolt

declared the province of Achaia exempt from taxes

event - Vespasian

First Jewish Revolt

Germano-Gallic Revolt

event - Titus

eruption of Mt. Vesuvius

fire in Rome

event - Domitian

raised legionaries’ annual pay

Roman forces defeated Dacia

event - Nerva

alimenta schemes (land distribution to those who did not have land and increased birthrate) in Italy

event - Trajan

Diaspora Revolt/Kitos War

event - Hadrian

constructs wall across northern England

Bar Kokhba Rebellion

event - Antoninus Pius

harmony between emperor and senate

uneventful

event - Lucius Verus

campaigns against Parthia

event - Marcus Aurelius

campaigns against Marcomanni

event - Commodus

performed in gladiatorial games

event - Septimius Severus

annexed northern Mesopotamia as a Roman province

lifted ban on marriage by soldiers

event - Caracalla

issued the constitutio Antoniniana (extended Roman citizenship empire-wide)

campaigned against Alamanni and Goths in Germany