509 BC Event

Birth of the Roman Republic

Name: Birth of the Roman Republic
Start: -509

Kingship is abolished. Consuls, Senate and assemblies invent the balance of powers that modern constitutions will echo.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 509 BC — the context national timelines leave out.

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Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

Ancient Greece 800 BC – 146 BC City-states, philosophy, and the first known democracy.
Rome 509 BC – 476 From the Republic to the fall of the Western Empire.

What was written of it

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

H. G. Wells 1920

The Outline of History