id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1269 Timeline of Roman history - Wikipedia .html text/html 11113 1291 66 The latter agreed to the overthrow and expulsion of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus and to a provisional constitution under which two consuls acted as a joint executive and a Curiate Assembly held legislative power, and swore never again to let a king rule Rome. July Battle of Heraclea: A Greek coalition force led by the Epirote king Pyrrhus of Epirus defeated a Roman army after their deployment of war elephants at Heraclea Lucania. 188 BC Roman–Seleucid War: The Seleucid Empire signed the Treaty of Apamea, under which it surrendered all territory west of the Taurus Mountains to the Roman clients Rhodes and Pergamon and agreed to disarm its navy and pay a war indemnity of fifteen thousand talents of silver to Rome. 16 April Following his defeat by Vitellius, the commander of the Roman army on the lower Rhine, near modern Calvatone, and to prevent further civil war, Otho committed suicide. December The Senate recognized Vespasian, the commander of Roman forces in Egypt and Judea, as ruler of Rome. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1269.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1269.txt