Founding of the Roman Republic
By tradition, the kings are expelled and two consuls rule
According to tradition, the Romans expelled their last king, Tarquin the Proud, and created a republic led by two annually elected consuls. The Republic lasted nearly five centuries and inspired modern political thought.
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Rome expelled its last king in 509 BC and Athens got democracy from Cleisthenes in 508: republic and democracy were born almost side by side.
Alive at the time
- Pythagoras (aged 61)
- Gautama Buddha (aged 54)
- Confucius (aged 42)
- Darius the Great (aged 41)
- Sun Tzu (aged 35)
- Leonidas I (aged 31)
- Xerxes I (aged 9)
- Heraclitus (aged 26)
- Themistocles (aged 15)