Western Heritage Final - Review

David’s Fortification of Jerusalem

1000/1020 B.C

Founding of Rome

April 21st 753 B.C

Babylonian Exile of Judea

586 B.C

Founding of the Roman Republic

509 B.C

Battle of Marathon

490 B.C

The Peloponnesian War

431 - 404 B.C

Death of Alexander the Great

323 B.C

Hannibal’s Crossing of the Alps

218 B.C

Battle of Cannae

216 B.C

Maccabean Revolt

167-165 B.C

Sack of Carthage/Corinth/End of Third Punic War

146 B.C

Death of Tiberius Gracchus

133 B.C

Life of Cicero

106 - 43 B.C

Assassination of Julius Caesar

March 15th 44 B.C

Battle of Actium/Fall of Last Hellenistic Kingdom

31 B.C

Reign of Caesar Augustus

27 B.C - 14 A.D

Crucifixion of Jesus under Tiberius

33 A.D

Death of the Apostle Paul

67 A.D

Year of Five Emperors

193 A.D

Perpetua Martyred in Carthage

March 7th 203

Diocletian/Establishment of the Tetrarchy

284 B.C

The Great Persecution

303-311

Constantine Defeats Maxentius at Battle of the Milvian Bridge

312

Council of Nicaea

325

Theodosius I establishes Nicene Christianity as the religion of the Roman Empire

381

“Sack of Rome” by Alaric I

Aug., 24 410

Death of St. Augustine of Hippo

Aug., 28 430

Fall of Western Roman Empire

476

Life of St. Benedict of Nursia

480 - 543

Coronation of Charlemagne Emperor and Augustus

December 25th 800

Investiture Controversy/Gregorian Reforms

1076 - 1122

Founding of the University of Paris

1150

Magna Carta and Fourth Lateran council

1215

First Outbreak of black Plague

1348