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    The overthrow of the Roman monarchy was an event in ancient Rome that took place between the 6th and 5th centuries BC where a political revolution replaced...
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    expulsion of his uncle the Roman king Tarquinius Superbus after the suicide of Lucretia, which led to the overthrow of the Roman monarchy. He was involved...
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    kings of Rome. The overthrow of the Roman monarchy of Tarquinius Superbus led to a limited separation of the powers mentioned above. The actual title of king...
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    509 BC—Overthrow of the Roman monarchy, and start of the Republican period. First pair of consuls elected. Tarquinian conspiracy formed, but discovered...
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    Sextus' rape of Lucretia set in motion the events that led to the overthrow of the Roman monarchy, but Lucretia took her own life out of shame. Collatinus...
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    The Roman Kingdom, also referred to as the Roman monarchy or the regal period of ancient Rome, was the earliest period of Roman history when the city and...
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    Democracy in Europe (category Politics of Europe)
    (Metapolitefsi) Overthrow of the Roman monarchy People's Council of Latvia (1918) Politics of Europe Portuguese transition to democracy Representation of the People...
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  • The Roman legion (Latin: legiō, Latin: [ˈɫɛɡioː]), the largest military unit of the Roman army, was composed of Roman citizens serving as legionaries...
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  • timeline of Roman history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the Roman Kingdom and Republic and the Roman and Byzantine...
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  • Marcus Horatius Pulvillus (category 6th-century BC Roman consuls)
    was an aristocrat before and during the early Roman Republic at the time of the overthrow of the Roman monarchy. He was a suffect consul in 509 BC and...
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  • such by Roman chroniclers. As Lange & Vervaet note, "civil war often refuses to speak its name.": 3–5  509BC Overthrow of the Roman monarchy 509BC Tarquinian...
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    the "rape" of the Sabine women, that is, by forcibly abducting the daughters of their Sabine neighbors to take as wives. The overthrow of the Roman monarchy...
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    Lucretia, whose death led to the overthrow of the Roman monarchy in 509 BC. Modern historians view the stories of Roman women such as Verginia and Lucretia...
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    in the Gerousia (Senate). Actual day-to-day public administration in Sparta was managed by the ephors. Following the overthrow of the Roman monarchy, the...
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  • War Roman–Latin wars Roman-Sabine wars War with the Volsci War with Gabii War with the Rutuli Roman-Etruscan wars c. 509 BC – (legendary) Overthrow of the...
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    mentioned in surviving sources until the overthrow of the Roman monarchy, traditionally occurring in 509 BC. Once appointed, the Pontifex Maximus held his position...
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  • The list below includes Roman women who were notable for their family connections, or their sons or husbands, or their own actions. In the earlier periods...
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    Veii (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    after the overthrow of the Roman monarchy, the family of Tarquinius Superbus went into exile in Caere in Etruria. Tarquin sought to regain the throne...
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    Liber (category Roman gods)
    of Liber's cult. Liber entered Rome's historical tradition soon after the overthrow of the Roman monarchy, the establishment of the Republic and the first...
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    Lavinium (category Roman sites in Lazio)
    to war and instead renewed the treaty between Rome and Lavinium. In 509 BC, after the overthrow of the Roman monarchy, one of Rome's first two consuls Lucius...
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  • of the temporary overthrow of the English monarchy by the Parliament of England in 1649, the American Revolution of 1776 and the French Revolution of...
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    The monarchy of the United Kingdom, commonly referred to as the British monarchy, is the form of government used by the United Kingdom by which a hereditary...
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    after the overthrow of the Roman monarchy in 510 BC. This provided for mutual defence by the two parties on the basis of an equal contribution to the annual...
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    intensified after the overthrow of the Roman monarchy. In The Spirit of Laws he lists the four main grievances of the plebs, which were rectified in the years following...
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    included in the posthumous collections of his works published in 1813. Inspired by the Cumaean Sibyl, it depicts the overthrow of the Roman monarchy. On 3 December...
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  • the time of the Overthrow of the Roman monarchy. The original Covent Garden cast included Thomas Walker as Porsenna and Jane Rogers as Valeria. The prologue...
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  • Tarquin's overthrow, "the ambitious Roman who should dare to assume their title or imitate [Tarquin's] tyranny was devoted to the infernal gods: each of his...
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  • texts alone. The conquest of Etruria was completed in 265–264 BC. Based on the traditional narrative of the overthrow of the Roman monarchy in 509 BC, in...
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  • marked the conclusion of the English Civil War which resulted in the Parliament of England overthrowing the English monarchy, and initiating a period of an...
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  • Titus Tarquinius (category Sons of Roman kings)
    travelled to consult the Delphic oracle to have an omen witnessed by the king interpreted. After the overthrow of the Roman monarchy, traditionally dated...
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