Romulus kills Acron, the king of Caenina, with his own hand and celebrates the first Roman triumph shortly after.

Divine communication did not prevent brotherly disagreement, and Romulus kills Remus, an act that is sometimes seen as sacrificial.

* 476 – Germanic general Odoacer kills Orestes, forces Romulus Augustus to abdicate and proclaims himself King of Italy.

Wolverine then tells the Professor that he hopes he will one day be able to forgive him for choosing to kill Romulus.

To avenge this abduction, the Sabines attacked Rome, although not immediately — since Hersilia, the daughter of Tatius, the leader of the Sabines, had been married to Romulus, the Roman leader, and then had two children by him in the interim.

Neither Zeno nor Basiliscus, the two generals fighting for the eastern throne at the time of Romulus ' accession, accepted him as ruler.

The Anonymus Valesianus wrote that Odoacer, " taking pity on his youth ", spared Romulus ' life and granted him an annual pension of 6, 000 solidi before sending him to live with relatives in Campania.

Writing his Lives of Illustrious Men ( Parallel Lives ) in the first century CE, the Middle Platonic philosopher Plutarch's chapter on Romulus gave an account of his mysterious disappearance and subsequent deification, comparing it to traditional Greek beliefs such as the resurrection and physical immortalization of Alcmene and Aristeas the Proconnesian, " for they say Aristeas died in a fuller's work-shop, and his friends coming to look for him, found his body vanished ; and that some presently after, coming from abroad, said they met him traveling towards Croton.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus ' imaginative account of Romulus ' triumph ( almost certainly informed by equally nostalgic Roman sources ) led him to reflect that the triumphs of his own day ( Ca 60 BCE – after 7 BCE ) " departed in every respect from the ancient tradition of frugality ".

However, Orestes was able to escape to Piacenza, where Odoacer followed and killed him, deposing his son Romulus Augustus.

" If Moses, Cyrus, Theseus, and Romulus had been unarmed they could not have enforced their constitutions for long — as happened in our time to Fra Girolamo Savonarola, who was ruined with his new order of things immediately the multitude believed in him no longer, and he had no means of keeping steadfast those who believed or of making the unbelievers to believe.

Some historians consider him to be the last Western Roman Emperor, while others consider the western line to have ended with Romulus Augustulus in 476.

When Romulus refuses, they confront him in battle and are defeated.

When Romulus ' grandfather Numitor dies, the people of Alba Longa offer him the crown as rightful heir.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus says, however, that Romulus was 55 when he died and that he reigned for a total of 37 years, agreeing as he notes with others before him that Romulus began his reign at 18.

His grandsons, however, Romulus and Remus, reinstated him after killing Amulius.

He then ordered that his two nephews, Romulus and Remus, be drowned, fearing that they would someday kill him like he did to his brother.

It was Proculus Julius who was said to have informed the sorrowing Roman people, after the strange departure of Romulus from the world, that their king had descended from heaven and appeared to him, bidding him tell the people to honor him in future as a god, under the name of Quirinus.

In an effort to gain his father's acceptance and approval, Garak followed his father's footsteps and joined the Obsidian Order ; at one point he was stationed on Romulus ( and was likely involved in the deaths of several Romulan officials ), until the Cardassians stationed him on occupied Bajor.

Romulus refuses to receive the news brought to him, instead insisting that Spurius Titus Mamma go to sleep whilst he himself breakfasts.

Romulus is vistited in his bedchamber by the Empress Julia, who informs him of her plan to flee to Sicily.

Instead of coming to kill Romulus, Odoacer begs him for help.

In Valerio Massimo Manfredi's The Last Legion, Aurelianus ( here called " Aurelianus Ambrosius Ventidius ") is a major character and is shown as one of the last loyal Romans, going to enormous lengths for his boy emperor Romulus Augustus, whose power has been wrested by the barbarian Odoacer.

In mid-1848, President Polk authorized his ambassador to Spain, Romulus Mitchell Saunders, to negotiate the purchase of Cuba and offer Spain up to $ 100 million, an astounding sum at the time for one territory, equal to $ in present day terms.

After his death at the age of 54, Romulus was deified as the war god Quirinus and served not only as one of the three major gods of Rome but also as the deified likeness of the city of Rome.

After the death of Romulus there was an interregnum for one year, during which ten men chosen from the senate governed Rome as successive interreges.

** Northwest Airlines Flight 255 ( a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 ) crashes on takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Michigan just west of Detroit killing all but one ( 4-year old Cecelia Cichan ) of the 156 people on board.

The location of his two temples in Rome — near those of Jupiter ( one on the Capitoline Hill, in the low between the arx and the Capitolium, between the two groves where the asylum founded by Romulus stood, the other on the Tiber Island near that of Iuppiter Iurarius, later also known as temple of Aesculapius )— may be significant in this respect, along with the fact that he is considered the father of Apollo ( perhaps because he was depicted carrying arrows ).

The fecundating power of sacred fire is testified in Latin mythology in one version of the birth of Romulus, that of the birth of king Servius Tullius ( in which his mother Ocresia becomes pregnant after sitting upon a phallus that appeared among the ashes of the ara of god Vulcanus, by order of Tanaquil wife of king Tarquinius Priscus ) and that of the birth of Caeculus, the founder of Praeneste.

In the early regal period of Rome, it appears that people were at first referred to by one name ( e. g., Romulus, Manius ).

Nevertheless, by the fourth century BC the fundamentals of the Romulus and Remus story were standard Roman fare, and by 269 BC the wolf and suckling twins appeared on one of the earliest, if not the earliest issues of Roman silver coinage.

She has twelve sons ; when one of them dies, Romulus takes his place to found the priestly college of Arval brothers Fratres Arvales.

The inhabitants of three Latin towns ( Caenina, Antemnae and Crustumerium ) take up arms one after the other and are soundly defeated by Romulus.

They are commanded by a tribune of the Ramnes ; in one version of the founding tale, Celer killed Remus and helped Romulus found the city of Rome.

The Franks Casket, an Anglo-Saxon hoard-box ( early seventh century ) shows Romulus and Remus in an unusual setting, two wolves instead of one, a grove instead of one tree or a cave, four kneeling warriors instead of one or two gesticulating shepherds.

* The novel Founding Fathers by Alfred Duggan describes the founding and first decades of Rome from the points of view of one of Romulus's Latin followers, a Sabine who settles in Rome as part of the peace agreement with Tatius, an Etruscan fugitive who is accepted into the tribe of Luceres after his own city is destroyed, and a Greek seeking purification from blood-guilt who comes to the city in the last years of Romulus ' reign.

She had twelve sons, and on the death of one of them Romulus took his place, and with the remaining eleven founded the college of the Arval brothers ( Fratres Arvales ).

After the death of Romulus, there was an interregnum of one year in which the royal power was exercised by members of the Senate in rotation for five days in a row.

In a somehow comparable, more moral rather than legal mode, Numa sought to associate himself with one of the roles of Vegoia in the neighbouring Etruscans ' religious system by deciding to set the official boundaries to the territory of Rome, which Romulus had never wanted, presumably done with the same concern of preserving peace.

An earlier variant, found in Ennius and some later sources, has Romulus perform his augury on one of the Aventine hills.

The first settler in the area that was the village of Romulus prior to the 1965 annexation of the whole village and township into one city was Samuel McMath, who moved from New York state to the area in 1827.

), Philip had the honor of leading the celebrations of the one thousandth birthday of Rome, which according to tradition was founded on April 21, 753 BC by Romulus.

Janus intervenes in the miracle of the hot spring during the battle between Romulus and Tatius: Juturna and the nymphs of the springs are clearly related to Janus as well as Venus, that in the Ovid's Metamorphoses cooperates in the miracle and that may have been confused with Venilia, or perhaps the two were originally one.