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- 27 BC - Octavian given the name Augustus.
- 27-19 BC - Agrippa completes conquest of northwest Spain.
- 9 AD - disaster in Germany - Rhine becomes the frontier.
- 43 AD - invasion of Britain.
- 66-73 AD - Jewish revolt.
- 69 AD - Year of Four Emperors
- 69-92 AD - Flavian dynasty
- 79 AD - Eruption of Vesuvius; destruction of Pompeii.
- 92-192 AD - Antonine era
- 101-6 AD - Trajan conquers Dacia
- 113 AD - Trajan's Forum & Column dedicated
- 148 AD - 900th anniversary of the foundation of Rome (900 AUC)
- 162-5 AD - Parthian wars of L. Verus.
- 165-7 AD - plague spreads throughout the Empire.
- 168-175 AD - German wars of Marcus Aurelius.
- 192 AD - murder of Commodus - four emperors
- 193-235 AD - Severan dynasty
- 235-284 AD - years of military anarchy
- 284 AD - Diocletian restablishes central power, establishes Tetrarchy.
- 306-327 AD Constantine the Great
- 312 AD - Battle of Milvian Bridge, Christianity becomes state reglion.
- 324 AD - foundation of Constantinople (Byzantium) by Constantine.
Continue to Late Antiquity or return to Classical World.
Key sources:
The Roman Empire (Second Edition) (Wells, Fontana, 1984)
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Roman World (Boardman et al, Oxford, 1986)
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome (Scarre, Penguin, 1995)
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