Inauguration of the Flavian Amphitheatre
The Colosseum is inaugurated under Titus with games reported to have lasted a hundred days. Built on the drained lake of Nero's private Golden House, it is a deliberate act of political architecture: imperial land returned to public use. Capacity figures in the 50,000-80,000 range are modern estimates from seating reconstruction, not attested counts.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome · amphitheatre · Italy
- Rome · city · Italy
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See... and San Paolo Fuori le Mura
The inscribed property covers the ancient civic and monumental core of Rome including the Fora, the Colosseum, the Pantheon and the Mausoleum of Augustus, providing the geographic anchor for the city as an object.
UNESCO World Heritage Centre · inscribed 1980; extended 1990 · Partly verified
UNESCO World Heritage List ref. 91, 'Historic Centre of Rome'; https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/91
Recorded on Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
- Traditional foundation of the Roman Republic
- Construction of the Via Appia begins
- The Punic Wars
- The Augustan settlement: Octavian becomes Augustus
- Assassination of Julius Caesar
- Caesar crosses the Rubicon
- Inauguration of the Flavian Amphitheatre
- Dedication of Constantinople
- Administrative division of the empire on the death of Theodosius I
- Alaric's Goths sack Rome
- Odoacer deposes Romulus Augustulus - the contested 'fall' of the Western Roman Empire
- The New7Wonders of the World are declared in Lisbon
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