Summary European Economic History Timeline

2024-2025




EUROPEAN ECONOMIC HISTORY
A TIMELINE




KOEN HANEGREEFS

, European Economic History Timeline:
Classic Antiquity:
3000 BC: Bronze Age begins
1200 BC: Iron Age begins
1000 BC: Tribal groups emerge in the Balkans
814 BC: Carthage established
753 BC: Rome founded (myth)

753 BC - 509 BC: Roman Kingdom period

509 BC: Roman Republic established
490 BC: Battle of Marathon
480 BC: Battle of Thermopylae
480 BC: Battle of Salamis
479 BC: Battle of Plataea
431 BC - 404 BC: Peloponnesian War
336 BC: Philip II of Macedon assassinated
323 BC: Alexander the Great dies
264 BC - 146 BC: Punic Wars
264 BC - 241 BC: First Punic War
218 BC - 201 BC: Second Punic War
149 BC - 146 BC: Third Punic War
146 BC: Rome conquers Corinth and Carthage
91 BC - 87 BC: Italian Social War
60 BC: First Triumvirate formed
49 BC: Caesar crosses the Rubicon
44 BC March 15: Caesar assassinated

27 BC - 395 AD: Roman Empire (Principate)
27 BC: Augustus becomes first Roman Emperor
27 BC - 14 AD: Augustus reigns
14 AD - 37 AD: Tiberius reigns
37 AD - 41 AD: Caligula reigns
41 AD - 54 AD: Claudius reigns
54 AD - 68 AD: Nero reigns
68 AD - 69 AD: Year of the Four Emperors
96 AD - 180 AD: Five Good Emperors period
180 AD: Marcus Aurelius dies, end of Pax Romana
235 AD - 284 AD: Crisis of the Third Century
284 AD - 305 AD: Diocletian reigns
306 AD - 337 AD: Constantine reigns
313 AD: Edict of Milan legalizes Christianity
324 AD: Constantinople founded
325 AD: Council of Nicaea
379 AD - 395 AD: Theodosius I reigns
380 AD: Edict of Thessalonica makes Christianity o[icial
395 AD: Roman Empire permanently split
395 AD - 1453 AD: Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire)
410 AD: Sack of Rome by Visigoths
476 AD: Fall of Western Roman Empire

Middle Ages:
527 - 565: Justinian I reigns
681: Bulgaria recognized as independent state