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  2. Timeline of Italian history - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of Italian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Italy and its predecessor states, including Ancient Rome and Prehistoric Italy. Date of the prehistoric era are approximate. For further background, see history of Italy and list of prime ministers of Italy.

  3. History of Italy - Wikipedia

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    Italy was the birthplace and centre of the ancient Roman civilisation. [3][4] Rome was founded as a kingdom in 753 BC and became a republic in 509 BC. The Roman Republic then unified Italy forming a confederation of the Italic peoples and rose to dominate Western Europe, Northern Africa, and the Near East.

  4. Italy in the Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The history of Italy in the Middle Ages can be roughly defined as the time between the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the Italian Renaissance. Late antiquity in Italy lingered on into the 7th century under the Ostrogothic Kingdom and the Byzantine Empire under the Justinian dynasty, the Byzantine Papacy until the mid 8th century.

  5. History of early modern Italy - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The history of early modern Italy roughly corresponds to the period from the Renaissance to the Congress of Vienna in 1814. The following period was characterized by political and social unrest which then led to the unification of Italy, which culminated in 1861 with the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy.

  6. Timeline of the city of Rome - Wikipedia

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    149 - 146 BC - The Third Punic War. 133 BC - 120 BC - The Gracchi brothers are controversially killed. 71 BC - Spartacus is killed and his rebel army destroyed. 60 BC - Pompey, Crassus and Caesar form the first triumvirate. 59 BC - Handwritten "news posters" introduced. [1] 55 BC - Theatre of Pompey completed.

  7. Roman Italy - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Italia (in both the Latin and Italian languages), also referred to as Roman Italy, was the homeland of the ancient Romans. [3][4][5][6] According to Roman mythology, Italy was the ancestral home promised by Jupiter to Aeneas of Troy and his descendants, Romulus and Remus, who were the founders of Rome. Aside from the legendary accounts ...

  8. Timeline of the unification of Italy - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of the unification of Italy. 1849 – August 24: Venice falls to Austrian forces that have crushed the rebellion in Venetia. 1858 – Meeting at Plombieres: Napoleon III and Cavour decide to stage a war with Austria, in return for Piedmont gaining Lombardy, Venetia, Parma and Modena, and France gaining Savoy and Nice.

  9. Roman expansion in Italy - Wikipedia

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    Roman expansion in Italy. Roman expansion in Italy from 500 BC to 218 BC through the Latin War (light red), Samnite Wars (pink/orange), Pyrrhic War (beige), and First and Second Punic War (yellow and green). Cisalpine Gaul (238–146 BC) and Alpine valleys (16–7 BC) were later added. The Roman Republic in 500 BC is marked with dark red.

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