User blog:Michael Douglas/New Timeline Idea

I'm thinking of a new timeline... one I'd call Servus Civitas, or Slave State. (Closest I could get to puppet state) Its based on the idea of the Romans never founding an empire, but instead creating puppet republics and installing a mostly roman patrician class. The "League Roma" keeps these all together, and was established by Cornelius Sulla. When the Roman League declines, the Republics decline, and eventually the medival ages come on. But now, I can butterfly the medival ages however I want...

Timeline so far, needs to be updated.

Part I: BC

753: The city of Roma is founded by the brothers Romulus and Remus.

750: The Greeks establish a colony at Cuma, oldest Etruscan inscriptions

616: A civil war occurs between House Romula and House Rema, dividing the Patrician class. An Etruscan invasion force establishes Tarquinius I as king of Rome.

600: The forum of Rome is built. Oldest Latin inscriptions.

578: The world’s first sewer system is built in Roma.

550: The city walls of Rome are built by Servius Tullius.

509: The Patrician class rebels in Rome and expels the last of the Etruscan Kings. The most influential patrician families form a republic. The houses which claim link to the now-extinct houses Romula and Rema continue to divide the senate.

474: The Greeks defeat the Etruscans at Cuma.

450: The Twelve Tables of Roman law are written.

396: Roma conquers the Etruscan city of Veii.

387: A Celtic Gaul force sacks Roma as a part of their invasion of Italy. Roma is forced to pay an annual tribute.

326: The Circus Maximus is built.

312: The Via Appia is opened, along with the first aqueduct, the Aqua Appia.

308: Roma conquers the Etruscan city of Tarquinia.

295: Roma manages to defeat the Gauls in Northern Italy.

283: Roma establishes the province of Gallia Cisalpina in Northern Italy.

280: Roma issues its first coins.

275: Roma defeats the Greek colonies in Southern Italy. The cities are forced to pay tribute and adopt a Roman-style republican government. These cities are forcibly tied to Roman foreign policy by the establishment of the Roman League.

264: Carthage invades southern Italy. Roma defends its tributary states, starting the First Punic War. The Romans destroy the last vestiges of the Etruscan civilization. (Volsinies)

232: Gaius Flaminius enacts an agrarian law ceding land of Northern Italy to poorer classes of citizens.

225: The Gauls invade Roma launching a three year war.

222: The Gaul invasion is defeated.

218: Carthage, led by Hannibal, attempts to sway the allegiance of the tributary states in Southern Italy. These states are disgruntled as they see their resources being spent in the defense of Roma, as well as the misuse of their funds to please the Roman citizens. However, they also fear the roman military. Hannibal engages the Roman military as a way of building confidence in these states. With a few critical battles, the southernmost of the tributary states attempt to leave the league, and the Second Punic war is on. Hannibal convinces the Gauls to launch another invasion of Roman territory alongside his own.

214: The city of Syracuse, an ally of Carthage, is narrowly saved from a Roman naval attack by war machines designed by Greek mathematician Archimedes.

203: Roma organizes the northern colonies of Placentia an d Cremona in the territory of the Gauls.

202: The Roman general Scipio defeats Hannibal. Roma forces Hispania into the league, establishing several republics and puppet states.

196: Macedonian king Philip V is defeated by the Romans in the battle of Cynoscephalae. Macedonia is forced to become a tributary state.

189: Antiochus III, King of the Seleucids, is defeated at Magnesia and is forced to surrender his possessions in Europe and Anatolia.

181: The Gauls of Northern Italy have been completely subjugated and Romanized.

175: The Celts of Spain are subjugated by the Roman republics in the region.

171: The Third Macedonian War begins.

167: At the end of the Third Macedonian War the Romans establish the Macedonian Republic.

149: Carthage is now de-facto a roman tributary state. Roma goes to war with Cornith and forces upon them a Roman-style republic.

138-135: Several slave revolts in southern Italy (The First and Second Servile Wars) are put down after several tributary states have been overrun. Roma forcibly unites Southern Italy into a unified republic.

133: Tiberius Gracchus enacts a law to redistribute land to the poor farmers. The wealthy patricians attempt to have him assassinated. The resulting crackdowns push several Patrician families to the Roman tributary states, where they are integrated into the upper classes of those republics. Attalus III of Pergamum wills his kingdom to Roma.

131: The Republic of Athens is reestablished. The entire Mediterranean sea is now within the Roman League.

128: Aquitania (OTL southern France) becomes a territory of the League.

121: Gaius Gracchus is assassinated.

106: A united Roman League force led by the newly elected consul Marius defeat Jugurtha, king of Numidia. This is the first time the Roman League has fielded its armies, as opposed to merely using the army of Roma.

105: The Teutones and the Cambri defeat the Romans at Arausio.

104: The Third Servile War is fought in Sicily after a slaves’ revolt.

102: Consul Gaius Marius is killed in the battle of Aix-En-Provence. Although his Roma contigent is defeated, Hispania forces manage to route to the Teutonic army.

90: Central and Southern Italians (referred to as Latins and Greeks) start the “social wars” over the issue of League representation.

88: Sulla marches on Roma and seizes power. He grants the league equal representation with the Roma. Sulla declares that there shall only be one consul per republic in the league.

83: Sulla declared dictator of Roma after his term ends.

74: Cicero enters the Senate; Sulla assassinated.

73: Spartacus leads a revolt of the gladiators, starting the Fourth Servile War.

71: Mithridates VI of Pontus is defeated by Athenian general Lucius Lucullus. The Fourth Servile War ends with Crassus’s defeat of Spartacus’s army.

70: Crassus becomes the Consul of Rome.

69: Roma invades Armenia and establishes a republic there.

64: Syria is conquered by Roman general Gnaeus Pompeius, who declares himself consul of the Republic of Syria. Syria enters the league.

63: Cicero thwarts Catilina’s attempted coup. Pompeius captures Jerusalem and Annexes Palestine into Syria.

59: Caesar becomes the first to decline the position of consul after his election due to his alliance with Crassus.

57: Caesar conquers all of Gaul, and becomes its Consul.

53: Crassus is killed in the battle of Carrhae during first war against Persia. Pompeius assumes command of his forces and wins the battle.

51: Caesar crushes the revolt of Vercingetorix in Gaul.

50: Roma reforms its economy, making the new gold coin “aureus” the sole currency of the league.

47: Queen Cleopatra of Aegyptus marries Pompeius. Syria unites with Aegyptus as a kingdom. Queen Cleopatra dies soon after, under mysterious circumstances, and Greater Syria becomes a republic.

45: Aegyptian astronomer Sosigenes works out a new 12-month calendar. The Sosigenian calendar becomes the standard throughout the league.

44: Julius Caesar is killed invading Britannia. Mark Anthony becomes the new Consul of Gaul.

36: Roma attempts to invade Persia.

31: Octavianus becomes the consul of Roma.

20: A treaty between the Roman League and Persia fixes the boundary between Persia and Syria along the Euphrates River.

6: Jesusis born in Palestine.

Part 2: AD

1: Roma has about one million people.

5: Roma acknowledges Cymbeline, King of the Catuvellauni, as King of Britian.

9: Gothic warlord Arminius is defeated at the Teutoburg Forest.

12: Last Etruscan inscription carved.

14: Tiberius becomes Consul of Roma. Five million people live in the Roman League. The league has started to lose its native cultures, and their languages are being replaced with local corruptions of Greek and Roman.

25: Agrippia builds the Pantheon.

37: Caligula attempts a coup in Roma after the death of Tiberius. He is defeated and crucified, a punishment formerly never practiced on the Patrician class.

46: Claudius becomes consul of Roma. Thracia becomes a republic of the league.

50: Romanized Gauls are allowed to settle in Britian. They found Londonium.

54: Nero becomes consul. He is merely the latest in a string of weak consuls, giving the other republics of the league more power.

64: Roma nearly burns to the ground. Poltical opponents blame Nero for the fire and have him exiled. He winds up in Londonium.

69: The Republic of Londonium is founded as the first republic outside the league.

77: Nero dies in Londonium.

79: Mount Vesuvius erupts and Pompeii is destroyed.

80: The Republic of Wales is established as a puppet of Londonium, which considers itself the next Roma.

84: Caledonia conquered by Londonium; the Republic of Caledonia is established. Londonium declares the founding of the Britannian League.

97: Roma forbids human sacrifice throughout the Roman League. Chinese general Pan Chao sends an Embassy to the “glorious empire of the west”. When the Roma are discovered to be a league, not a true empire, they leave in disgust.

107: The Roman League sends an embassy to India.

116: Hispanian General Trajan conqueres Mesopotamia and the Persian capital of Ctesiphon, establishing the Republic of Parthia

132: The Jews, ld by Bar-Cochba, who some identify as the Messiah, revolt in Syria.

136: Syrian consul Hadrian crushes the Jewish revolt. Hadrian renames Jerusalem Aelia Capitolina as punishment, and declares that if no further incidents occur within the next 20 years, Judaism, and Christianity, which was considered a sect of Judaism, will be legalized.

161: Marcus Aurelius becomes consul of Roma. The league is at this point in decline.

164: The Antonine Plague spreads throughout the Roman Empire.

167: Germanic tribes invade Gaul. The rest of the league refuses to help. The borders of Gaul are pushed back beyond the Rhine.

193: Septimius Severus holds a coup in Carthage. Carthage becomes a military dictatorship.

211: Septimius Severus dies. Carthage re-establishes itself as a republic. However, a large section, now called the Libyan Empire, succeeds.

214: Caracalla, consul of Roma, invades Edessa. Under Caracalla, the league loses its common currency.

218: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus stages a coup in Syria and becomes its King.

235: Brittany successfully succeeds from Gaul, becoming an independent Kingdom.

244: Shapur I becomes Emperor of Persia, and launches a large invasion northward.

250: The league continues to fail to aid its member states. Armenia is forced to make a separate peace with the Sassanid Persians, leaving it paying tribute but intact.

257: Bulgar tribes conquer the northernmost Roman League territories in the Black Sea. These tribes are quickly Romanized. This forms the kingdoms that would eventually become the Bulgarian Empire.

261: The Sassanids are defeated by the Syrians in Mesopotamia.

273: The Syrian capital of Palmyra burns to the ground. The capital is moved to Alexandria.

298: The Syrians capture Misibis from the Sassanids. Armenia feels secure enough to stop paying tribute.

300: The population of the Roman League, which is by now is a largely ceremonial organization, numbers around 60 million, with around 15 million Christians in scattered communities. Judaism is largely eclipsed by Christianity outside Syria.

313: Constantine becomes Consul of Anatolia and establishes Byzantium as its capita. Constantine declares Christianity the state religion of Anatolia.

363: Roma general Julian carves out a large kingdom for himself. It is named Bavaria.

378: Visigoth invasion of the Roman League is repelled. This will be the last coercive military action undertaken by the league.

406: Barbarian Franks invade Gaul from the East. Londonium takes the opportunity to invade Northern Gaul.

443: Aquitania is conquered by the Burgundi, who establish a new dynasty.

452: The Huns carve out a large empire for themselves in what will eventually become Hungary.

476: A german leader named Odoacer establishes Swabia.

526: Antioch in Syria is destroyed by an earthquake.

527: Anatolia put anti-Jewish laws into effect, and Jews all but disappear from Anatolia.

534: Belisarius is proclaimed King of Hispania.

546: The plague returns to the Roman league and almost decimates it.

552: Nestorian monks smuggle silkworm eggs from China to Anatolia.

554: Athanagild, king of the Visigoths, invades northern Hispania. Visigoth culture is rapidly being replaced with Basque culture.

582: Settlers from what will become the Hanseatic Empire invade Caledonia and establish Anglica.

639: The First Arab Invasion of Syria begins. Arabic forces also at this time invade Libya and Persia. These two kingdoms convert to Islam.