716 BC

Events in 716 BC 1

• 753 BC – 716 BC Romulus — first King of Rome Romulus, legendary founder and first king of Rome, rules for 37 years according to tradition. He establishes the Senate (100 patrician elders), divides the people into tribes, and creates the basic military structure. His reign includes the Rape of the Sabine Women — the abduction of women from neighbouring tribes to populate the new city — and wars with the Sabines, Latins and Etruscans. He disappears in a thunderstorm in 716 BC, deified as the god Quirinus.