620 BC – 610 BCs

Events in 620 BC – 610 BC 1

• 616 BC – 578 BC Tarquinius Priscus — Etruscan influence begins Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, the fifth king of Rome, is the first of the Etruscan dynasty. Under him Rome begins its transformation from a village into a city: the Forum is drained, the Circus Maximus laid out, the Capitoline temple begun. Etruscan engineering, art and religious practice flood into Rome. The triumphal procession, the fasces, the toga — all are Etruscan borrowings that become permanently Roman.