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Roman Empire
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Chronology of the Roman Empire
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Later Empire | Writers | |
| 284-305 | Diocletian
Creation of smaller provinces in southern France |
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| 306-337 | Constantine | |
| 395-423 | Honorius | Sidonius Apollinaris (AD 430-480) |
| 476 | Romulus Augustulus; last Emperor, deposed and spared | |
