REPUBLICAN PERIOD
República Media
(274-146 a.C.)
                                        
                
Oppidum Galo
                    Guerras Pírricas
(280-275 a.C.)                
                    280 a.C.                    
                
                    Guerras púnicas
(264-146 a.C.)                
                    264 a.C.                    
                
                    203 a.C.                    
                
                    Fundación de Italica
Ruta Vía de la Plata (Spain)                
                    181 a.C.                    
                
                    Fundación Colonia
Aquileia (Italy)                
Conquista de Macedonia
                    168 a.C.                    
                
The Late Roman Republic
(146-27 BC)
                    Lusitanian War
(155-139 BC)                
                    155 BC                    
                
                    153 BC                    
                
                    Vía Annia was built
Aquileia (Italy)                
                    148 BC                    
                
                    Vía Postumia was built
Aquileia (Italy)                
                    138 BC                    
                
                    Decimus Junius Brutus's Expedition
(138-136 BC) - Braga (Portugal)                 
                    90 BC                    
                
                    Became a municipality
Aquileia (Italy)                 
                    First Civil War. Sila’s victory
(88-81 BC)                
                    88 BC                    
                
                    70 BC                    
                
                    Revolt of the Batavi. Remarkable development of the vicus
(70-69 BC) - Alesia (France)                
                    Gallic Wars
(58-50 BC)                
                    58 BC                    
                
                    57 BC                    
                
Cesar chose Aquileia as his winter base during the campaigns to conquer Gaul. The proconsul also returned to stay in the upper Adriatic city in the following years
                    52 BC                    
                
                    Siege. Julius Caesar’s victory over Vercingetorix
Alesia (France)                
                    50 BC                    
                
                    Creation of Gallia Belgica
Arlon (Belgium)                
                    Second Civil War. Julius Caesar's victory
(49-45 BC)                
                    49 BC                    
                
Julius Caesar’s assassination
                    44 BC                    
                
                    Third Civil War. Mark Antony, Octavian and Lepidus’s victory
(43-42 BC)                
                    43 BC                    
                
                    35 BC                    
                
                    Augustus's campaign against the Pannonian tribes
(35-33 BC) - Sremska Mitrovica (Serbia)
Transformation into Gallo-Roman city
Alesia (France)
Mérida, capital of Lusitania
Ruta Vía de la Plata (Spain)                
                    Fourth Civil War.  Octavian's victory
(32-30 BC)                
                    32 BC                    
                
HIGH ROMAN EMPIRE
Julio-Claudian Dynasty
(27 BC - 68 AD)
                    Cantabrian and Asturian Wars
(29-19 BC)                
                    29 BC                    
                
                    Camp of the Legio VI Victrix in León
Ruta Vía de la Plata (Spain)                
Octavian proclaimed Augustus Caesar
                    27 BC                    
                
                    25 BC                    
                
                    Founding of Mérida
Ruta Vía de la Plata (Spain)                
                    22 BC                    
                
                    Gallia Belgica Province. Founding of Orolaunum Vicus, dependent on Civitas Treverorum
Arlon (Belgium)                
                    16 BC                    
                
                    Founding
Braga (Portugal)                
                    14 BC                    
                
                    Camp of the Legio X Gemina in Astorga
Ruta Vía de la Plata (Spain)                
                    13 BC                    
                
                    Tiberius conquers the east of Pannonia
(13-9 BC) - Sremska Mitrovica (Serbia)
Large urban expansion. Construction of the Vía Nova XVIII
Braga (Portugal)
Golden Age of Italica
Ruta Vía de la Plata (Spain)
First settlements in Gijón
Ruta Vía de la Plata (Spain)
                
                    12 BC                    
                
                    First Milestones.  Settlement and growth of the city
(12-11 BC) - Braga (Portugal)                
Roman conquest of Britain
                    43 AD                    
                
Flavian Dynasty
(69-96 AD)
Emperor Vespasian
                    69 AD                    
                
Siege of Jerusalem
                    70 AD                    
                
                    74 AD                    
                
                    Legio VII Gemina settled in León
Ruta Vía de la Plata (Spain)
New buildings
Braga (Portugal)
Major development of the Route
Ruta Vía de la Plata (Spain)
                
Antonine Dynasty
(96-192 AD)
Emperor Trajan
                    98 AD                    
                
                    Dacian Wars
(101-106 AD)                
                    101 AD                    
                
                    103 AD                    
                
                    Capital of Lower Pannonia
Sremska Mitrovica (Serbia)
Germanic incursions. Fortification of the vicus
Arlon (Belgium)
Route repairs
Braga (Portugal)
Mérida, capital of the Hispania diocese
Ruta Vía de la Plata (Spain)                
Conquest of Mesopotamia and Assyria. Maximum territorial expansion of the empire
                    116 AD                    
                
Severan Dynasty and the third-century crisis
(193-284 AD)
Emperor Septimius Severus
                    193 AD                    
                
Constitutio Antoniniana (Edict of Caracalla)
                    212 AD                    
                
LOW ROMAN EMPIRE
Diocletian
(284-305 AD)
Diocletian’s Proclamation
                    284 AD                    
                
                    Capital of the Gallaecia province
(284-286 AD) - Braga (Portugal)                
Tetrarchy
                    293 AD                    
                
                    296 AD                    
                
                    Capital of Pannonia Secunda
Sremska Mitrovica (Serbia)                
                    297 AD                    
                
                    Belgica Prima Province, capital in Trier
Arlon (Belgium)
Refurbishment of the monument to Ucuetis
Alesia (France)                
Constantine
(306-337 AD)
                    306 AD                    
                
                    Augusta Treverorum, imperial residence during different periods. Orolaunum Vicus benefits from the splendor of citizenship (civitas)
(306- 390 AD) - Arlon (Belgium)
Fortification of Astorga, León and Gijón
Ruta Vía de la Plata (Spain)                
Edict of Milan. Freedom of worship
                    313 AD                    
                
First Council of Nicaea
                    325 AD                    
                
Founding of Constantinople
                    330 AD                    
                
Successors of Constantine
(337-476 AD)
                    AD Reign of Theodosius
(379-395 AD)                
                    379 AD                    
                
Edict of Thessalonica. Christianity as official religion
                    380 AD                    
                
                    385 AD                    
                
                    Cited as a bishopric
Braga (Portugal)                
                    390 AD                    
                
                    Augusta Treverorum, imperial residence during different periods. Orolaunum Vicus benefits from the splendor of citizenship (civitas)
(306- 390 AD) - Arlon (Belgium)
Fortification of Astorga, León and Gijón
Ruta Vía de la Plata (Spain)                
Division of the Empire
                    395 AD                    
                
                    401 AD                    
                
                    Siege by Alaric I and the Visigoths
Alesia (France)                
Capital in Ravenna
                    402 AD                    
                
                    AD Gothic War Alaric I
(408-416 AD)
                
                    408 AD                    
                
                    411 AD                    
                
                    Capital of the Suebi kingdom of Gallæcia
Braga (Portugal)                
                    429 AD                    
                
                    Suebi invasión of Mérida
Ruta Vía de la Plata (Spain)                
                    441 AD                    
                
                    Occupation by Huns
Sremska Mitrovica (Serbia)                
                    442 AD                    
                
                    Mérida, Suebi capital
Ruta Vía de la Plata (Spain)                
Battle of the Catalaunian Fields against Attila and the Huns
                    451 AD                    
                
                    452 AD                    
                
                    Sacking by Attila and the Huns
Alesia (France)                
Sacking of Rome (Vandals)
                    455 AD                    
                
                    456 AD                    
                
                    Sacking by Theodoric II
Braga (Portugal)                
Fall of the Western Roman Empire
                    476 AD                    
                
LATE ANTIQUITY
                    Gothic Wars
(535-554 AD)                
                    535 AD                    
                
                    568 AD                    
                
                    Lombard invasion
Aquiliea (Italy)                
                    582 AD                    
                
                    Destruction by the Avars
Sremska Mitrovica (Serbia)                
                    585 AD                    
                
                    Visigoth occupation
Braga (Portugal)                
                    713 AD                    
                
                    Taking of the city by Moors from Mérida
Braga (Portugal)                
                    715 AD                    
                
                    Destruction by Moors
Braga (Portugal)                
                    753 AD                    
                
                    Incursions by Alfonso I of Asturias
(753-754 AD) - Braga (Portugal)                
Charlemagne, King of the Franks
                    768 AD                    
                
