BC   338				Latin League dissolved
BC   330				Ovinian Law increases plebian senators
BC   312				Construction of the first aqueduct, the Aqua Appia
BC   287				Hortensian Law ends pleabian power struggles
BC   269				Beginning of official coinage of the Roman state
BC   264				Punic Wars change character of Roman Republic
BC   264				Introduction of gladiator shows in Rome
BC   253				First plebeian Pontifex Maximus
BC   240				First work of Latin literature
BC   218				Roman armies counter Hannibal in Second Punic War