According to Roman tradition, the twin brothers Romulus and Remus, sons of the war god Mars and raised by a she-wolf, founded the city of Rome on the Palatine Hill on 21 April 753 BC, after Romulus killed his brother in a quarrel over the site. The learned Roman scholar Varro fixed this date in the first century BC, and the Romans counted years from it. Archaeology shows that villages on the Roman hills date from the tenth to eighth centuries BC and merged into a city during the seventh century. Rome was ruled by kings, traditionally seven, until 509 BC.
Before and after
- c. 782 BCEOrigins of Yerevan
- from c. 782 BCE to 595 BCEConstruction of Erebuni Fortress
- from c. 776 BCE to 500 CEAncient Olympic Games
- from c. 771 BCE to 476 BCESpring and Autumn period
- c. 754 BCERomulus founds Rome (traditional date)
- from c. 753 BCE to 476 CEAncient Rome
- from 753 BCE to 46 BCERoman calendar
- from c. 753 BCE to 509 BCERoman Kingdom
- 21 April 753 BCEFounding of Rome
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The era
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