At its height, the Roman Empire lasted from 27 BCE to 1453 CE. This is about 1,500 years ago.
The empire began in 27 BC with the reign of Augustus and was one of the longest lasting empires in history – even if other successors have used the same name, they were never able to conquer Rome on a scale as wide-reaching as this ancient empire. It began to fall gradually after 400 AD yet managed to maintain control until 476 AD when it was finally overthrown by an outside invasion led by Odoacer (not long afterwards Justinian’s reconquest helped bring back some stability). Roughly two centuries later (the first being characterized by gradual decline), the empire finally collapsed fully under its own weight, leaving only Italy behind as a continuation of sorts.
The Roman Empire was known for its long period of stability, yet the first years of the 1st millennium brought great turmoil to almost all people living in Europe. Only 300 years after Augustus, Rome came under siege by the Barbarians – Germanic tribes from outside the empire’s borders that wanted to find new homes in Rome’s provinces. These tribes were perhaps the key factor in Rome’s downfall, being an important part of the empire’s strategic military defenses while also throwing off their entire economy by raiding towns and disrupting trade routes.
The Empire was eventually divided between Western and Eastern powers during the 5th century AD while gaining ground against invaders (the Byzantine Empire) and slowly putting the pieces back together. The last emperor of Rome was deposed in 476 AD by an Odoacer, a Germanic barbarian who had been declared as a magister militum for the Western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos but turned against him instead. For about two centuries after that, Italy remained a kingdom ruled by Germanic tribes, with the Eastern Roman Empire being its successor.
In 476 AD when Odoacer deposed Romulus Augustus – the last Emperor of Rome in the west with his death marking the official fall of Rome and crowning himself King of Italy with its capital in Ravenna – he was not recognized as a legitimate ruler but was regarded by Romans as an usurper. Romulus Augustus was the second emperor in 6 months, after the fall of the previous one, Julius Nepos – which marked a period marked by turmoil and instability that played a big part in the collapse of Rome’s power. Despite this claim to legitimacy still being held centuries later, Italy had already been under the control of Germanic tribes for a few years. In the following year, the Eastern Roman Empire saw an opportunity to recapture some of its former lands and invaded Italy – while Odoacer was aided by some troops left behind after the deposal of Nepos, his army was outnumbered and fell quickly in defeat.
The Roman Empire can be said to have reached its zenith at the height of the rule of Trajan (or Marcus Aurelius), AD 100.
The final citizen on earth, according to historians, was actually born in Berlin on September 9th, 1939 around 12 PM. Yes: 1 day before Nazi Germany invaded Poland and started WWII.
The Roman Empire lasted longer than most empires. It lasted from the republic in 509 BCE to the fourth century CE when Rome was sacked for the last time by Germanic and Arab tribes (although some Roman emperors continued on as figureheads in Constantinople for centuries).
More than one emperor spent his entire life trying to revive it again, but none could. Even if they could, they just weren’t Romans anymore. The people who ceased being “Romans” were the invaders or anyone who settled there after 390 AD; these weren’t members of that proud civilization founded by Aeneas and started by Romulus and Remus long before Athens hailed them with disdain or that young city had even heard their story…
The Roman Empire lasted for about 235 years.
The Roman Empire at its apex encompassed the Mediterranean and many parts of Europe, as well as much of North Africa. It lasted from the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BC to Emperor Diocletian’s abdication on 1 May AD 476 with the crowning of his successor Emperor Romulus Augustus.
The fall of Rome can be attributed to a long list of factors. These include an increase in taxes coupled with a drop in civic brutality; some scholars suggest that citizens may have become accustomed to living under totalitarian rule and did not know how to provide for themselves without it. Many new republics were established around this time, so those who felt unworthy or unable to contribute to society may have felt pressure to leave.
Some scholars suggest that Christianity played a role. The early Christians refused to serve in the military and even condemned it, which was particularly dangerous to practice during times of war. Although there is no direct evidence for this connection, some historians believe that the prominence of Christianity caused Romans to be less willing to fight for their empire.
The Roman Empire lasted about 450 years. It began in 27 BCE and ended in 476 CE.
The empire was built during the time of the civil wars, which followed Augustus’ death. Through a mix of military power and diplomacy, the Roman Empire had expanded to be on every continent by 117 AD. This made it one of Rome’s most powerful empires and an exploiter of its own advantage at different times in history, as well as pushing back against external threats like Western Germanic Tribes, peoples from Central Asia Minor, Sassanid Persians and Huns from what is now modern China or Mongolia with varied success throughout its life span due to being overstretched on some fronts such as the Danube frontier against barbarians at the time of Marcus Aurelius.
The empire was divided among different regions and ultimately evolved into a decentralized state with a Western European culture during its last centuries. In its efforts against Germanic Tribes it was often at war from the Rhine to Constantinople, from North Africa to Syria, but this could never stop further incursions that finally brought its end.
In 476 CE, the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire was deposed by a German Odoacer while Romulus Augustus , probably a viceroy of Flavius Orestes, had already been deposed in 475 CE after a brief rule of 11 months. The Eastern half survived for another thousand years as what was left of the Roman Empire after the Crisis of the Third Century.
Some say that 476 is just a date chosen at random because it reflects less poorly on Rome than other dates, but this is simply not true. There are many important differences between what happened in 476 and earlier events that year that justify why later historians chose to remember this date as the Fall of Rome. For example, 476 was the first time an Emperor had been deposed by a German general on Italian soil. It’s also the year that Odoacer became the first non-Roman ruler to be accepted into Roman citizenship without being raised to the office of consul first.
The Roman Empire lasted from 27 BC to 1453.
The Roman empire was founded in 27 BC after the assassination of its first ruler, Julius Caesar. It grew and thrived until it started to decline after the rise of Christianity at around 300 AD, which put an end to many pagan traditions. In 476 the last Western Roman emperor was deposed by Germanic tribes led by Odoacer who installed himself as king of Italy. This began a long vice where Rome was repeatedly sacked by various northern barbarians including Goths and Vikings while also grappling with outbreaks of bubonic plague, malaria, measles, influenza and smallpox amongst other horrendous diseases that targeted south Europeans due to their centuries-long absence from exposure combined with low genetic immunity.
After the fall of the Western Roman empire, The Eastern Empire remained intact for 1000 more years until Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks in 1453 who put an end to the Byzantine and ancient Greek empires simultaneously. A few small Greek states still exist but they are not as large or powerful as their predecessors were during Ancient Greece and Rome.
The Roman Empire lasted for more than 1,000 years until the 5th century AD when it was overtaken by various “barbarian” or outside invaders.
The conquering barbarians who ended up overhauling the ancient Roman Empire comprised many tribes from Germanic Europe and hailed mainly from various areas within what are now France and Germany. Once these hordes overran Rome in 476 AD, they began spreading out elsewhere to take most of Western Europe under their leadership. The Eastern half of the empire continued on for a while before eventually meeting a similar fate 500 years later in 1453 at Constantinople.
Both halves had fallen, but not before painting an impressively long trajectory along 2,500 plus years as one of history’s great empires.
It lasted from 1204 until 1437.
The Roman empire lasted about 2,046 years! The Empire was divided into two parts in 270 AD, with each part of the empire being called an “empire” — the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire. These two empires continued to exist on their own for centuries until they were finally conquered by other countries for good in 476 when Odoacer became emperor of both halves of the empire. The last ruler or emperor was named Romulus Augustus who ruled from 475 to 476 alongside Germanic king Odoacer which eventually resulted in dissolving what was left of the once great Empire.
The Roman Empire was founded on October 27th, 800 BC and remained in power until AD 476. Those years add up to 1,139 years.
If you really want the finer points of when the empire expanded, then it grew almost constantly for a really long time, seizing territories from enemies such as Gaius Julius or expanding with generals like Marcus Aurelius. In total however it lasted around 1000 years. After that it eventually fell to be just one region among many others in Europe because of its relative weakness compared to competitors in Asia and Africa who were untouched by decline due to their ever-growing populations which had been buoyed by a pandemic at that time.
The Roman Empire’s time=cannot be stated because the empire evolved.
The Romans dealt with fall of other civilizations, such as the Gauls, and eventually this led to a downfall for them too. The fall of Rome was caused by multiple different circumstances but major ones were an exhausted economy made worse by plague infestations that were likely smallpox; their inability to assimilate new immigrants and subjects; outside pressure from invaders who had more cohesive populations; lack of economic growth or innovation…
