Year by year · 6th century BCE
509 BCE
509 BCE in world history: 6 events. 300 recorded states existed that year.
Events
Publius Valerius celebrates a triumph after the Battle of Silva Arsia
In what is traditionally the first year of the Republic, the consul Valerius brought the spoils of the battle against the deposed king Tarquin back to Rome and held a triumph. His four-horse chariot became the usual vehicle of a victorious Roman general.
The Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill is dedicated
According to Livy, the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill was dedicated on the Ides of September in the Republic's first year, by the consul Marcus Horatius Pulvillus. Dionysius of Halicarnassus dated the consecration to 507 BCE.
In the profiles
Roman RepublicTraditional expulsion of Tarquinius Superbus and election of the first consuls
AristocracyBy Roman tradition the last king is expelled, and patrician families rule through the Senate and two annual consuls
RepublicBy Roman tradition the last king, Tarquinius Superbus, is expelled and the first two consuls are elected
Roman religionThe expulsion of Tarquinius Superbus ends Roman kingship and begins the Republic, whose elected magistrates also serve as priests
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