Current Archaeology

Visiting Pompeii - Pompeii Timeline

Attention: open in a new window.

Page 2 of 8

8th century BC	Iron Age agricultural settlement
6th century BC	City founded by Oscans, Greeks or Etruscans City walls built. Street grid laid out First masonry building on site of House of Amarantus
4th century BC	Second phase of building on site of House of Amarantus First settlement on site of House of the Vestals Rome conquers the Bay of Naples
3rd century BC	First masonry buildings on site of House of the Vestals
218-201 BC	War against Hannibal
2nd century BC	House of the Vestals doubles in size
146 BC	Destruction of Carthage and Corinth
91 - 87 BC	Social War; Pompeii besieged
80 BC	Roman colony founded
Early 1st century BC	House of the Vestals doubles in size and is substantially rebuilt
Late 1st century BC	House 12 constructed on the site of House of Amarantus
30 BC - AD 14	Reign of first emperor, Octavian-Augustus
20s AD	House of the Vestals substantially rebuilt with fountains
AD 62	Earthquake strikes Pompeii
70s AD	House of the Vestals substantially rebuilt without piped water House of Amarantus becomes a run-down bar
AD 79	Pompeii destroyed by Vesuvius