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753 BC: According to legend, Romulus, the half-mortal son of a Greek-Roman war god, builds the city of Rome.

About 645 BC: According to historians, people from a group of small settlements in west-central Italy establish the city of Rome on a hilly site along the Tiber River.

509 BC: Romans rise up against King Tarquinius Superbus and drive him into exile. They establish a republic in place of the monarchy.

238 BC: Asoka, emperor of India, dies. His Mauryan Dynasty begins to decline.

221 BC: The First Emperor of Qin unites warring Chinese states.

140 BC: Mithradates I begins a campaign conquest to enlarge the Parthian Empire.

45 BC: Julius Caesar emerges victorious from Roman civil war and takes the title Dictator for Life.

27 BC: Octavian, great-nephew of the assassinated Julius Caesar, accepts the title Augustus, becoming Rome’s first emperor.

330 AD: Roman Emperor Constantine completed building his new capital city, Constantinople, in Turkey, far to the east of Rome.

476 AD: Barbarian invaders remove Romulus Augustus, the last Roman emperor of the West, from his throne.