Political Leaders in Rome
The atlas holds 39 people and 137 moments here, from 211 BC to 2025. The most recorded lives are Augustus, Galileo Galilei and Cicero.
Notable people
Adolf Hitler
in 1938
1 moment here
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who led the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP), became German…
Augustus
from 63 BC to 4
12 moments here
Augustus, born Gaius Octavius and conventionally called Octavian before 27 BC, founded the Roman principate.…
Benito Mussolini
from 1929 to 1940
4 moments here
Italian journalist, Fascist leader, and dictator of Italy from 1922 until his removal in 1943.…
Cicero
from 87 BC to 47 BC
10 moments here
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC) was a Roman lawyer, orator, philosopher, consul, provincial governor, and defender of the late Republic.…
Constantine the Great
from 312 to 326
4 moments here
Roman emperor from 306 to 337. Born at Naissus, Constantine served under Diocletian and Galerius in the eastern empire, joined his father in Britain,…
Dante Alighieri
from 1300 to 1301
2 moments here
Florentine poet, prose writer, philosopher, and statesman whose Divine Comedy became a foundational work of Italian and European literature.…
Gabriela Mistral
from 1924 to 1928
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Chilean poet, educator, journalist, and diplomat born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga. Mistral taught across Chile, worked on Mexican educational reform,…
Galileo Galilei
from 1611 to 1633
11 moments here
Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, mathematician, and natural philosopher. Born in Pisa, Galileo was educated in Tuscany, taught mathematics at…
Giovanni Boccaccio
in 1367
1 moment here
Italian writer, poet, and humanist, best known for the Decameron. His documented life moved between Florence, Naples, Romagna, papal Avignon and…
Giuseppe Verdi
from 1848 to 1893
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Italian composer whose career transformed nineteenth-century opera. Born near Busseto, Verdi studied and worked in Busseto and Milan, then traveled…
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
in 1689
2 moments here
German polymath, philosopher, mathematician, jurist, diplomat, court councillor, historian, and librarian.…
Hadrian
in 118
1 moment here
Roman emperor from 117 to 138. Hadrian traveled extensively through the Roman Empire, inspecting frontiers and armies, intervening in provincial…
Hannibal
in 211 BC
1 moment here
Hannibal Barca was a Carthaginian general and statesman best known for leading an army from Iberia across the Alps into Italy during the Second Punic…
Hannibal
in 211 BC
1 moment here
Hannibal (Hannibal Barca) was a Carthaginian general and statesman, born at Carthage in 247 BC.…
Helen Keller
in 1946
1 moment here
Helen Adams Keller was an American deafblind author, lecturer, disability-rights advocate, and political activist.…
Jimmy Carter
in 1980
2 moments here
James Earl Carter Jr. was an American naval officer, Georgia state senator and governor, the 39th president of the United States, and a…
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
from 1786 to 1787
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German poet, dramatist, novelist, scientist, theatre director, and statesman. Born in Frankfurt, Goethe studied in Leipzig and Strasbourg, practiced…
John F. Kennedy
in 1963
2 moments here
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was an American naval officer, journalist, congressman, senator, and the 35th president of the United States.…
Julius Caesar
from 100 BC to 44 BC
9 moments here
Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman politician, general, orator and author whose career spanned the late Roman Republic.…
Leonardo da Vinci
in 1513
1 moment here
Italian Renaissance painter, draftsman, engineer, architect, anatomist, and natural philosopher.…
Lord Byron
in 1817
1 moment here
George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788–1824), was a British poet, peer, and political speaker.…
Mahatma Gandhi
in 1931
1 moment here
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, political ethicist, and leader of mass nonviolent resistance.…
Marcus Aurelius
from 121 to 176
6 moments here
Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and Stoic philosopher. This chronology records securely attested physical presence from his birth and Roman residences…
Michel de Montaigne
from 1580 to 1581
5 moments here
French Renaissance writer, magistrate, diplomat, and two-term mayor of Bordeaux, best known for the Essais.…
Moments
- 211 BC Marches to the gates of Rome Hannibal
- 211 BC March on Rome Hannibal
- 100 BC Born in Rome Julius Caesar
- 87 BC Studies with Philo in Rome Cicero
- 78 BC Returns to Rome after Sulla's death Julius Caesar
- 77 BC Returns to Rome from eastern studies Cicero
- 70 BC Prosecutes Verres at Rome Cicero
- 68 BC Writes from Rome Cicero
- 63 BC Accompanies Lentulus to the Tullianum Cicero
- 63 BC Born on the Palatine Hill Augustus
- 61 BC Writes from Rome after his consulship Cicero
- 59 BC Serves as consul in Rome Julius Caesar
- 59 BC Returns to Rome Cicero
- 57 BC Re-enters Rome after exile Cicero
- 49 BC Arrives outside Rome with imperium Cicero
- 49 BC Returns to Rome during the civil war Julius Caesar
- 47 BC Returns to Rome after Caesar's victory Cicero
- 47 BC Assumes the toga of manhood Augustus
- 46 BC Presides over Caesar’s Greek games Augustus
- 46 BC Celebrates triumphs in Rome Julius Caesar
- 45 BC Returns to Rome after Spain Julius Caesar
- 44 BC Dines at Lepidus' house on the eve of the assassination Julius Caesar
- 44 BC Watches the Lupercalia from the Rostra Julius Caesar
- 44 BC Assassinated at the Curia of Pompey Julius Caesar
- 44 BC Returns to Rome as Caesar’s heir Augustus
- 44 BC Enters Rome with a private army Augustus
- 43 BC Marches on the capital Augustus
- 39 BC Attacked by a Roman food-riot mob Augustus
- 32 BC Confronts Antony’s supporters in the Senate Augustus
- 29 BC Celebrates three Roman triumphs Augustus
- 27 BC Maintains his principal Palatine residence Augustus
- 9 BC Delivers a eulogy for Drusus Augustus
- 4 Adopts Tiberius in Rome Augustus
- 5 Childhood residence and education Seneca the Younger
- 31 Return from Egypt Seneca the Younger
- 49 Recall to Nero's court Seneca the Younger
- 54 Accession before the Praetorian cohort Nero
- 62 Retirement on country estates Seneca the Younger
- 64 Return to fire-stricken Rome Nero
- 65 Death under Nero Seneca the Younger
- 65 Imperial sentence at country house outside Rome Seneca the Younger
- 66 Coronation of Tiridates in the Roman Forum Nero
- 67 Triumphal-style return to Rome Nero
- 68 Panic return to Rome Nero
- 68 Flight to Phaon's villa and death Nero
- 88 Secular Games service Tacitus
- 97 Funeral oration for Verginius Rufus Tacitus
- 100 Prosecution of Marius Priscus Tacitus
- 104 Return to Rome Tacitus
- 118 Returns to Rome as emperor Hadrian