The Visigoths under Alaric I sacked Rome in 410, defeated Attila at the Battle of the Catalunian Plains in 451, and founded a Kingdom in Aquitaine which was pushed to Hispania by the Franks in 507, converted to Catholicism by the late sixth century, and in the early eighth century conquered by the Muslim Moors.

In 63 BCE the Roman general Pompey conquered Jerusalem and made the Jewish kingdom a client of Rome.

* 1871 – Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the Papal States.

Subsequently Belisarius, Narses, and other generals conquered the Ostrogothic Kingdom, restoring Dalmatia, Sicily, Italy, and Rome to the Empire after more than half a century of barbarian control.

He distributed kingdoms between his children: Alexander Helios was named king of Armenia, Media and Parthia ( which were never conquered by Rome ), his twin Selene got Cyrenaica and Libya, and the young Ptolemy Philadelphus was awarded Syria and Cilicia.

It wasn't until the 2nd century B. C., when Rome had conquered Italy and monopolized the commercial and road networks, that a huge diversity of products flooded the capital and began to change their diet, and by association, the diet of Italy most notably with the more frequent inclusion of meats, including as a stock for soups.

Despite initially holding an ambiguous neutrality, Clement was later forced to name Charles, Archduke of Austria, as King of Spain, since the imperial army had conquered much of northern Italy and was threatening Rome itself ( January 1709 ).

By the end of the third war, after more than a hundred years and the loss of many hundreds of thousands of soldiers from both sides, Rome had conquered Carthage's empire and completely destroyed the city, becoming the most powerful state of the Western Mediterranean.

By the 3rd century BC, Rome had become the pre-eminent city of the Italian peninsula, having conquered and defeated the Sabines, the Etruscans, the Samnites and most of the Greek colonies in Sicily, Campania and Southern Italy in general.

The tablets were probably destroyed when Rome was conquered and burned by the Gauls in 387 BC.

* With Carthage and Greece conquered, Rome becomes the sole superpower in the Mediterranean world, a distinction it will continue to hold for approximately the next 600 years.

Etruria was conquered by Rome in the 3rd century BC.

In 188 BC, the Romans invaded Thrace, and warfare continued until 46 AD when Rome finally conquered the region.

By AD 47 Rome had invaded and conquered all of southernmost and southeastern Britain under the first Roman governor of Britain.

The first wave of real " modern " historians, especially scholars on Rome and the medieval period, such as Edward Gibbon, contended that had Charles fallen, the Umayyad Caliphate would have easily conquered a divided Europe.

Initially under the political and economic alliance with the Phoenician cities, it was colonised and then conquered by Rome during the First Punic War ( 238 BC ) but strong Punic cultural influences remained until the 1st century AD.

Together with Sicily it formed one of the main granaries of Rome until the Romans conquered Egypt in the 1st century BC.

He has defeated opponents on the battlefield and conquered for Rome, half the known world.

* Following Hannibal's victory, many regions begin to defect from Rome, while others are conquered by Hannibal's forces.

Didius was then beheaded two months later when Septimius Severus conquered Rome.

Only Rome, Veneto, and Trentino remained to be conquered.

When Octavian conquered Egypt, he spared Alexander, but took him, his sister and his brother Ptolemy Philadelphus from Egypt to Rome.

In the wake of the Vandal sack of Rome ( 455 ), the Visigoths had conquered Hispania, formally in the name of the new Western Emperor Avitus, actually controlling the territory themselves.

* The district of Tusculum is pacified after a revolt against Rome and conquered.

The remains known as the Servian Wall used stone quarried at Veii, which was not conquered by Rome until c. 393 BC, so the Aventine might have been part-walled, or an extramural suburb.

While his paternal family was from the town of Velletri, about from Rome, Augustus was born in the city of Rome on 23 September 63 BC.

Ancus Marcius marched from Rome with a newly levied army and took the Latin town of Politorium ( situated near the town of Lanuvium ) by storm.

By the 5th century AD, Rome was in decline and the Roman predecessor town of Alicante, known as Lucentum ( Latin ), was more or less under the control of the Visigothic warlord Theudimer.

Historians generally refer to the continuing Roman Empire in the east as the Byzantine Empire after Byzantium, the original name of the town that Constantine I would elevate to the Imperial capital as New Rome in 330 AD.

An area was founded in southeast Rome to build a town exclusively for cinema, dubbed the Cinecittà.

It was this expansion that led to the Second Punic War when Carthage besieged the Roman protected town of Saguntum in 218 BC, igniting a conflict with Rome.

A small town was built at Empire Studios on the via Pontina outside Rome.

The relentless work of Albornoz ushered in a decade of warfare and atrocity culminating in the massacre of Cesena, a town faithful to the Papal cause who's entire population was executed by the Papal forces while paving the way of Urban V to Rome ( 1367 ).

Palestrina was born in the town of Palestrina, near Rome, then part of the Papal States.

Tarquinius took the Latin town of Apiolae by storm and took great booty from there back to Rome.

Pliny mentions some painted ceilings in his day in the town of Ardea, which had been done prior to the foundation of Rome.

The relentless work of Albornoz was capped after a decade of warfare and atrocity with the massacre of Cesena, a town faithful to the Papal cause whose entire population was executed by Papal forces while paving the way of Pope Urban to Rome in 1367.

In 219 BC Hannibal attacked the town of Saguntum, which stood under the special protection of Rome.

His efforts to undo the mischief wrought in Rome by the long schism were almost entirely neutralized by a quarrel with his erstwhile supporter, Louis VII of France over the candidate for archbishop of Bourges, in the course of which that kingdom was laid under an interdict to press for the papal candidate, and by a struggle with the town of Tivoli in which he became involved.

Salò, a nickname for the Italian Social Republic ( RSI ) ( because Mussolini ruled from this northern town rather than from Rome ), which was a puppet state of Nazi Germany.

* 493 BC: Coriolanus captures the Volscian town of Corioli for Rome

Monte Cassino is a rocky hill about southeast of Rome, Italy, c. to the west of the town of Cassino ( the Roman Casinum having been on the hill ) and altitude.

Rome is also called the " Urbs ", the word that in later Latin generically referred to any town or city.

This was extended with the inclusion of the Capitoline Hill and Tiber Island when Rome became an oppidum, or fortified town.

In Rome, the Fascists in the 1930s created ex novo many new suburbs in order to concentrate criminals and poorer classes away from the elegant town.

* 585 BC — Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, defeats the Sabines in war, takes the town of Collatia, and celebrates a triumph for his victories on 13th September.

Vercingetorix decides to attack Gergovia, a town of the Boii who are allies of Rome.

After sending his artillery commander, Porter Alexander, to reconnoiter the Union-occupied town, he devised a plan to shift most of the Army of Tennessee away from the siege, setting up logistical support in Rome, Georgia, go after Bridgeport to take the railhead, possibly catching Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker and arriving Union troops from the Eastern Theater in a disadvantageous position.