Between the Testaments

The wider world

1. 146 BCRome destroys Carthage and Corinth
2. c. 130 BCThe Silk Road opens between China and the West
3. 58 BCJulius Caesar conquers Gaul
4. 51 BCCleopatra VII, last pharaoh of Egypt
5. 44 BCJulius Caesar assassinated in Rome
6. 31 BCBattle of Actium; Octavian wins sole power
7. 27 BCAugustus becomes first Roman emperor (Pax Romana begins)
8. c. 19 BCVirgil completes the Aeneid