-509

This page relates to the year -509 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

Europe

Roman world

  • With Rome, expulsion of the kings - Foundation of the Republic ( Released respublica ).
    • Descent of the mountain dwellers sabellic towards the littoral areas: the Samnites break towards the Apulie, the Lucaniens towards the gulf of Tarente, the Iapyges towards the Bruttium and the Sabins towards the Latium. The Roman revolt of -509 must be interpreted from the point of view of this Sabine invasion, united with a revolt of the Latin against the Etrusques where Rome seems to have played only one secondary part.
    • Proclamation of the republic by Junius Brutus (the idiot), Publicola and Collatin: Tarquin Superb the besieges Ardée, the capital of Rutules, to 30 km of Rome. In Rome, Lucrèce, the woman of Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, dishonoured by Sextus, wire of Tarquin the Superb one commits suicide. Brutus carries to Rome the body of Lucrèce and calls with revenge the Sénat and populates it. A senatus consult strikes Tarquin of forfeiture and pronounces against him and them his a sentence of exile. Brutus raises the army and Tarquin must flee in Etrurie.
    • the patriarchate ( people ), removed from the Etruscan sovereign, seizes the capacity gradually. Until -450, the populus is different gradually between a minority from gentes privileged and the remainder of the population which it oppresses.
    • to allow plebeian easy to take part in the businesses in the side of the patriarchate, an assembly, founded on the principle of fortune, the Comices centuriates, is created. It receives electoral attributions (election of the Consuls to the Champ de Mars), legislative (it votes the laws, ratified by the Senate, and supremely decides peace and war) and legal (law Valeria on the provocation: the comices receive the call of condemned to died and pronounce in last spring).

Africa

  • Rome recognizes by treaty the maritime domination of Carthage.

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