Question: what important events happened in italy?
Answer: 2000–1200 BC. Tribes from central Europe and Asia, the Villanovans, settle in northern Italy. c. 800 BC. ...  753 BC. Legendary date of Rome's founding. 750 BC. Greeks start to colonise southern Italy. 509 BC. Rome becomes a republic. 390 BC. Gauls sack Rome, but are expelled. 343–264 BC. ...  264–146 BC.