760 BC – 750 BCs

Events in 760 BC – 750 BC 3

• 753 BC – 716 BC Romulus — first King of Rome Romulus, legendary founder and first king of Rome, rules for 37 years according to tradition. He establishes the Senate (100 patrician elders), divides the people into tribes, and creates the basic military structure. His reign includes the Rape of the Sabine Women — the abduction of women from neighbouring tribes to populate the new city — and wars with the Sabines, Latins and Etruscans. He disappears in a thunderstorm in 716 BC, deified as the god Quirinus.
• 753 BC – 476 The Roman Civilisation The Roman civilisation — kingdom, republic and empire — shaped Western law, language, architecture, religion and governance more profoundly than any other ancient civilisation. From the legendary founding of Rome by Romulus in 753 BC to the deposition of the last western emperor Romulus Augustulus in 476 AD, Rome endured for over twelve centuries, governing at its peak an empire of 70 million people stretching from Scotland to Mesopotamia.
• 753 BC Founding of Rome According to Roman tradition, Romulus founds the city of Rome on the Palatine Hill on 21 April 753 BC, after killing his twin brother Remus in a dispute over the city's location and its sacred boundary. The story — wolves, augury, fratricide — is almost certainly mythological, but archaeology confirms continuous settlement on the hills above the Tiber from around this period. Rome begins as one of many Latin villages in central Italy.