Ruler · 701 – 578 BCE

Lucius Tarquinius Priscus

Lived 701 – 578 BCE; politician. King of Rome of Ancient Rome, 616 BCE – 578 BCE; also in the line of Roman Kingdom.

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Lived: 701 BCE – 578 BCE; 123 years
In office: 38 years; one reign
Lines: 2; states
Left it: killed in office; Wikidata's manner of death

King of Rome

Ancient Rome · the 5th of 845 dated reigns · 753 BCE – 480

1 before

Numa Pompilius715 BCE – 673 BCE

Tullus Hostilius673 BCE – 642 BCE

Ancus Marcius640 BCE – 616 BCE

Lucius Tarquinius Priscus616 BCE – 578 BCE

Servius Tullius578 BCE – 534 BCE

Lucius Tarquinius Superbus534 BCE – 509 BCE

Lucius Junius Brutus509 BCE

837 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 616 BCE – 578 BCE · 38 years · came to it aged 85

Left it: killed in officeWikidata's manner of death: homicide; exsanguination

Also in the line of Roman Kingdom (5th of 7).

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