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GREAT FIRE OF ROME YEAR OF THE FOUR COLOSSEUM FINISHED

The fire EMPERORS Afteralmosttenyearsofconstruction,theempire’s
raged NINE DAYS largest amphitheatre opened with games that lasted
for After the death of Nero, Galba took three months,
800 Temple of Jupiter bodyguards. Otho toook Over 9,000
Out of Rome’s YEAR-OLD control but he was m murdered b his on and off.
over until he was
Stator was destroyed
killed by the next animals were
killed in the
emperor, Vitellius. celebrations,
districts, only Finally, Vespasian from local
was declared bulls to exotic
emperor and the lions and
Flavian dynasty began.
remained intact leopards.

64 CE 68-69 CE 80 CE

C O N S T I T U T I O A N T ANTONINE PLAGUE HADRIAN’S WALL
CONSTITUTIO ANTONINIANA

Under Empe ror Caracalla, it When soldiers marched back west after defeating COMPLETED
me official – all
finally beca m the Parthians, they unwittingly brought a deadly
free people i n the Roman diseasewiththem.Theplagueeventuallyreached Built on the Roman Empire’s
Empire were now citizens, everycorneroftheempire,andevenkilled northernmost frontier, Hadrian’s
united under r Rome’s eagle Emperor Lucius Verrus. Wall crossed the border from coast
standard. to coast in what is now Cumberland.
79 miles in length, it was guarded
until Rome renounced Britain in 410.
The
Constitutio
Antoninianawasthe Hadrian’s
firstofitskindinthe Wallwasmade
wholeworld,givinga aWorldHeritage
unitarycitizenshipto Sitein1987andcan
peopleacrossthree beexploredtoday
continents alongwiththe
forts

212 CE 165-167 CE 122 CE

UNDER THE LAST BREATH THE EAST LIVES ON

ATTACK After just ten months on the throne, Romulus The Eastern Empire lasted

Augustus
The Visigoths ONE THOUSAND
had tried and was
overthrown
failed to attack
by military
the West’s years longer than the West
capital at leader
Ravenna a few Odoacer,
times, but in 410 who named In
they succeeded, himself king
aided by of Italy. The Constantinople was laid siege to almost
rebellious slaves Western theofficiallanguagechanged
in the city. The Empire fromLatintoGreek TWENTY
endoftheWest had finally
Itis
wasinsight. fallen. thanksto times
theByzantines
thattheEastern
410 CE 476 CE 476-1453 OrthodoxChurch
wasborn

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