| Pre-Empire |
Writers |
| BC 650-100 |
Iron Age in southern France |
|
| BC 600 |
Marseille founded |
|
| 510 |
Roman Republic established |
|
| 450 |
Celtic migrations |
|
| 390 |
Celtic Gauls sack rome |
|
| 218 |
Hannibal leads Carthaginian army across Provence and the Alps into Italy |
|
| 120s |
Transalpine Gaul defined |
|
| 122 |
Aix-En-Provence fort established |
|
| 118 |
Narbonne colony founded |
|
| 60 |
First Triumvirate (Pompey, Crassus and Caesar) |
|
| 58-50 |
Gallic Wars; Caesar conquers northern Gaul |
Julius Caesar (100-44 BC) |
| 49-45 |
Civil war |
|
| 49 |
Siege and capture of Marseille |
|
| 46 |
Victory of Caesar |
|
| 44 |
Murder of Caesar |
|
| 43-31 |
Second Triumvirate (Anthony, Lepidus and Octavian) and Civil War |
|
| 31 |
Octavian triumphs at battle of Actium |
|
| Early Empire |
Writers |
| BC 27 |
Octavian proclaimed Augustus |
Strabo (Greek, born 64 BC) |
| 22 |
Gallia Transalpina renamed Narbonensis
Alpes Maritimae area conquered |
|
| AD 14 |
Augustus dies |
|
| 14-68 |
Julio-Claudians (descendants of Augustus) |
|
| 14-37 |
Tiberius |
|
| 37-41 |
Gaius, known as Caligula |
|
| 41-54 |
Claudius |
|
| 54-68 |
Nero |
Lucan (AD 39-65) |
| 68-69 |
Civil War (Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian) |
|
| 69-96 |
Flavians (Vespasian and his family) |
|
| 69-79 |
Vespasian |
Pliny the Elder (AD 23-79 |
| 79-81 |
Titus |
Pliny the Younger (AD 62-114 |
| 81-96 |
Domitian |
| 96-180 |
The adoptives |
Frontinus (AD 30-104?) |
| 96-98 |
Nerva |
|
| 98-117 |
Trajan |
Tacitus (AD 56-120s?)
Suetonius (AD 70-130s?) |
| 117-138 |
Hadrian |
|
| 138-161 |
Antoninus Pius |
|
| 161-180 |
Marcus Aurelilus |
|
| 161-169 |
Lucius Verus and Marcus Aurelilus |
|
| 180-192 |
Commodus |
|
| 192-197 |
Civil War |
|
| 193-235 |
The Severans (Severus and his heirs) |
|
| 193-211 |
Septimus Severus |
|
| 211-217 |
Caracalla |
|
| 217-235 |
|
Later Severans |
| 235-284 |
The military men
Frequent civil war and short-lived Emperors |
|
| Later Empire |
Writers |
| 284-305 |
Diocletian
Creation of smaller provinces in southern France |
|
| 306-337 |
Constantine |
|
| 361-363 |
Julien "The Apostat" (Flavius Claudius Julianus) |
|
| 395-423 |
Honorius |
Sidonius Apollinaris (AD 430-480) |
| 476 |
Romulus Augustulus; last Emperor, deposed and spared |
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