Trier
City · 16 BCE – 1618 CE · in Europe
Capital of Electorate of Trier (1333–1618).
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- Rome (753 BCE): According to tradition Rome was founded by Romulus in 753 BCE; it grew from a settlement on the Palatine Hill into the capital of a Mediterranean empire.
- Julius Caesar (100 BCE – 44 BCE): Roman general and statesman who conquered Gaul, won a civil war and became dictator; his assassination led to the end of the Republic.
- Augustus (63 BCE – 14 CE): First Roman emperor, who ended the civil wars and ushered in the Pax Romana, a long period of relative peace.
- Beginning of the Roman Empire (27 BCE): The Senate granted Octavian the title Augustus, conventionally marking the start of the Roman Empire, which came to rule the whole Mediterranean.
- Colosseum (80 CE): Flavian amphitheatre in Rome, completed in 80 CE under Titus, which held tens of thousands of spectators for gladiatorial games.
- Fall of the Western Roman Empire (476 CE): The Germanic general Odoacer deposed Romulus Augustulus, the last Western Roman emperor, at Ravenna, a date conventionally marking the end of the Western Empire.
- Charlemagne (c. 747 CE – 814 CE): King of the Franks who conquered much of Western Europe, was crowned emperor in 800 and promoted a revival of learning, the Carolingian Renaissance.
- Council of Clermont (1095 CE): Pope Urban II called on Western Christians to aid Byzantium and take Jerusalem, launching the First Crusade.
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