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  • Isola Farnese, Roma, Italy
    509 BC
    Etruscan civilization

    Battle of Silva Arsia

    Isola Farnese, Roma, Italy
    509 BC

    The Battle of Silva Arsia was a battle in 509 BC between the republican forces of ancient Rome and the Etruscan forces of Tarquinii and Veii led by the deposed Roman king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus.




  • Roman Republic (Present-Day Rome, Italy)
    509 BC
    Roman Republic

    Publius Valerius Poplicola

    Roman Republic (Present-Day Rome, Italy)
    509 BC

    Publius Valerius Poplicola or Publicola was one of four Roman aristocrats who led the overthrow of the monarchy and became a Roman consul, the colleague of Lucius Junius Brutus in 509 BC, traditionally considered the first year of the Roman Republic.




  • Roman Republic (Present-Day Rome, Italy)
    509 BC
    Roman Republic

    Lucius Junius Brutus

    Roman Republic (Present-Day Rome, Italy)
    509 BC

    Lucius Junius Brutus is the semi-legendary founder of the Roman Republic, and traditionally one of its first consuls in 509 BC. He was reputedly responsible for the expulsion of his uncle the Roman king Tarquinius Superbus after the suicide of Lucretia, which led to the overthrow of the Roman monarchy.




  • Roman Republic (Present-Day Rome, Italy)
    509 BC
    Roman Republic

    The Centuriate Assembly

    Roman Republic (Present-Day Rome, Italy)
    509 BC

    The Centuriate Assembly was supposedly founded by the legendary Roman King Servius Tullius, less than a century before the founding of the Roman Republic in 509 BC.




  • Roman Republic (Present-Day Rome, Italy)
    509 BC
    Roman Republic

    The beginning of constitutional history of the Roman Republic

    Roman Republic (Present-Day Rome, Italy)
    509 BC

    The constitutional history of the Roman Republic began with the revolution which overthrew the monarchy in 509 BC.




  • Frascati, Rome, Italy
    Oct, 509 BC
    Roman Republic

    Battle of Lake Regillus

    Frascati, Rome, Italy
    Oct, 509 BC

    The Battle of Lake Regillus was a legendary Roman victory over the Latin League shortly after the establishment of the Roman Republic and as part of a wider Latin War. The Latins were led by an elderly Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the seventh and last King of Rome, who had been expelled in 509 BC, and his son-in-law, Octavius Mamilius, the dictator of Tusculum.




  • Isola Farnese, Rome, Italy
    509 BC
    Roman Republic

    Battle of Silva Arsia

    Isola Farnese, Rome, Italy
    509 BC

    The Battle of Silva Arsia was a battle in 509 BC between the republican forces of ancient Rome and the Etruscan forces of Tarquinii and Veii led by the deposed Roman king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus. The battle took place near the Silva Arsia (the Arsian forest) in Roman territory and resulted in victory to Rome but the death of one of her consuls, Lucius Junius Brutus.


  • Rome
    509 BC
    Roman Kingdom

    Lucius Tarquinius Superbus was expelled

    Rome
    509 BC

    Tensions came to a head when the king's son, Sextus Tarquinius, raped Lucretia, wife, and daughter to a powerful Roman noble. Lucretia told her relatives about the attack and committed suicide to avoid the dishonor of the episode. Four men, led by Lucius Junius Brutus, and including Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, Publius Valerius Poplicola, and Spurius Lucretius Tricipitinus incited a revolution that deposed and expelled Tarquinius and his family from Rome in 509 BC. Tarquin was viewed so negatively that the word for king, rex, held a negative connotation in the Latin language until the fall of the Roman Empire.


  • Roman Republic (Present-Day Rome, Italy)
    Friday Mar 1, 509 BC
    Roman Republic

    Valerius returned to Rome to celebrate a triumph

    Roman Republic (Present-Day Rome, Italy)
    Friday Mar 1, 509 BC

    The consul Valerius collected the spoils of the routed Etruscans and returned to Rome to celebrate a triumph on 1 March 509 BC.


  • Rome, Italy
    509 BC
    Etruscan civilization

    War with Veii and Tarquinii

    Rome, Italy
    509 BC

    The armies of the two cities followed Tarquin to battle but were defeated by the Roman army at the Battle of Silva Arsia. The consul Valerius collected the spoils of the routed Etruscans and returned to Rome to celebrate a triumph on 1 March 509 BC.


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